Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor Women's Institute - Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire
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  • Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor Women's Institute - Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire
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  • The ideals of the Women's Institute are truth, justice, tolerance and friendship. The W.I. is the largest voluntary women's organisation in the UK. It exists to educate women to enable them to provide an effective role in the community, to expand their horizons and to develop and pass on important skills.KINGSTON BAGPUIZE with SOUTHMOOR Women's Institute is part of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes [NFWI], & is also the Oxfordshire County Federation of Women’s Institutes [OFWI]. We have around 44 members, mostly from the villages of Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor, Longworth, Hinton & the surrounding area. Meetings are held at 7.30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month at Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor Village Hall, which has wheelchair access. The WI also arranges visits, trips, classes & other activities for the members.MEETINGS The main part of the evening is a talk or demonstration [sometimes with ‘hands on’ experience], very often our speakers have us in fits of laughter, and in ‘hands on’ such as the Tai Chi demonstration [sorry - experience] we had a hard job to keep our faces straight whilst we performed many sequences. The talks are preceded by some brief WI business. The members take a hand in planning the programme each year. Excellent refreshments are served by members on a Rota basis. We also have a competition each meeting, and these published in the programme card and competition entries are placed on a table at the back of the hall, where they are judged usually by the speaker.At present we are running ‘Operation Christmas Child’ and are making teddies and other small toys or garments to be packed into shoe boxes to send to children in Belarus at Christmas time. After the speaker we break for Refreshments which we all take turns in producing and serving.  These feasts are met with enthusiasm and a great deal of chatter and laughter takes place around the table.Contact Jill or Hilary 25-03-2006 
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