May 2011 - Dates for the Diary.

Hello Lovely Ladies.

Its May already how quickly time has moved on. One May Bank Holiday gone, and one more Bank Holiday to look forward to. The sun is shining and spring seems to be moving towards summer finally.

 

As always you can get in touch with us via londonwestendwi@gmail.com if you have news of us or if you need anything from us.

 

We are tweeting and have a large number of followers now and post items of interest up on www.twitter.com on our website and on our blogspot both listed at the end of this email.

  

Two LWWI May meetings on 17th and 19th of May.

We are going to be shown how to begin patchworking on Tuesday 17th of May at St Georges. Helena has very kindly agreed to lead this meeting. She has asked Please can members bring along a piece of cotton material, patterned or plain, an old garment or a length of fabric, nothing too flimsy. 

 

And on Thursday 19th of May Lynne Parker will be talking to us about being the founder of “Funny Women” and “Funny Women Awards” which nurtures and promotes new female talent  at 7 Dials Club

 

Both meetings as usual will begin at 6:30pm. Talks will start at about 7pm.

 

More from Lynne Parker: Do you know any Funny Women?

They may be colleagues, members of your networks, in your family or a good friend.  We’re looking for the next ‘big thing’ in female comedy.

The Funny Women Awards, our annual search for the best new female comedy talent, is now launched for the ninth year running. As the leading female comedy brand in the UK we’re setting the benchmark for women breaking into the industry. 

We’re not just interested in regular performers.  We meet lots of great funny women through business networking and want to open up this year’s competition to a broader entry base and new audiences.  Your best friend could be our 2011 champion!

As some of you know, this isn’t just about competing, it’s also about women working with each other and supporting other women to improve their confidence and achieve their potential.  We are really aware of how intimidating the comedy world can be for new acts so we provide a supportive friendly environment at all our heats, showcases, workshops and other events.  With our 10th anniversary in sight for next year, we want to attract as many different types of women to enter this year as possible. 

For more information about the competition visit http://www.funnywomen.com/awards.php

Please come along and see a heat or two – we also need audiences as much as we do entrants! 

 

Lucy Fell - Documentary photographer wants to come to one of our May meetings as she is documenting the WI in the 21st Century on either 17th or 19th of May.

 

Please see her email below.

 

My name is Lucy, I am a documentary photographer, and I am currently researching into doing a project based around the Women's Institute.
I would like to explore the different aspects of the Women's Institute through a photographic documentary piece.

I am extremely interested in looking at the contrast between more traditional WI groups, and others that have been set up which instill more modern and unconventional activities, and ones that also have younger members.

Would your group be interested in myself coming along to a meeting and taking some photographs? Although this is currently only a short term project, I am hoping it will turn into more of a long-term piece, with the hope that it will eventually be exhibited or published bearing it in mind with the Centenery in 2015.

I'd be really interested in coming along to your next meeting on the 17th May! I am hopefully shooting with Goldsmiths WI on the Monday of that week, and have had confirmation with Borough Belles for the Wednesday evening too.

Please don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions!

Thank you for your time,

Kind regards,

Lucy

 

WI Stall at the Brunswick Fayre on Saturday 14th of May

LWWI did brilliantly at the Brunswick Fayre last weekend, They made about £150 which it fantastic.
More details to follow.
Thank You so much to everyone who came along to support the event and who helped out on the day.

 

WI Swishing Event - 21st May.

NFWI have invited us to a Fashion swapping event aka Swishing.

 

WI Swishing Event
Saturday 21st May from 1.30pm

Entry £5

St Brides Foundation,

Fleet Street
EC4Y 8EQ

*Bring along up to 5 items to swish*
*Find out about the WI’s Fast Fashion campaign & learn new sewing skills*

Places are available on a first come first served basis, but early registration by emailing
e.lindsay@nfwi.org.uk is essential.

 

Community Evening at British Museum - Afghanistan exhibition

The British Museum have contacted us to see if we want to apply for tickets for the community evening on May 28th.

We will ask for a few tickets and let you know how many if any we get. Please do let us know if you would like to attend this evening via emailing londonwestendwi@gmail.com.  It is expected that the preview will take place between 6pm and 9pm. 

 

Sewing Circle - Tuesday 7th June.

As usual sewing and committee meeting will be held at 7 Dials Club on Tuesday the 7th of June from about 6ish.

 

Woburn Abbey - June 23rd

Don't forget tickets are still available for Woburn Abbey on June 23rd, it is possible to pay via paypal for these. Tickets are £12

 

Which includes coach trip, entrance to the house, and a packed lunch
Bloomsbury is part of the Duke of Bedford’s Estate and each year the Friends of Russell Square organise a trip to Woburn Abbey There are 15 places available on a first come first served basis please email Kate know if you would like to go londonwestendwi@gmail.com Bookable via paypal button at the bottom of our blogspot.

 

Big Tea Party - 5th June - SE23 1HU

If you are interested in volunteering and live in South London and want to attend please email info@voluntarycarecentre.co.uk . Tea Party event will run between 3pm and 5pm and is open to all potential new volunteers and is held as part of National Volunteers Week.

 

Flower Arranging Course currently planned for July

More concrete details as soon as date is finalised.

 

Phoenix Gardens - September 3rd September

Please can all bakers  put a note in their diary of this date and please can ew have some volunteers to help sell produce. Thanks

 

Future Things to be aware of.

We will be posting a security article advising our members how to mitigate their exposure to the risk following  the recent security incidents that have occured with a number of Big name brands. We will post this article up on the blogspot in the next week or so. Please come back to the blog www.londonwestendwi.blogspot.com for this information if interested.

Queen's Jubilee next year

LWWI are thinking about what they might do to celebrate the Queen's Diamond jubilee in 2012 if you have any ideas about what we might do please do get in touch.

 

Website of the month

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ which generates anagrams. for example London westend wi becomes winded sonnet owl.

 

April 2011 - Dates for the diary

Hello Ladies

Apologies for the tardiness of your dates for the diary email and reminder about our WI meeting which is on Tuesday this coming week.

LWWI meeting 19th April.
Our April meeting is on Tuesday 19^th April,  when Chris Raeburn the Community Gardener from Phoenix Gardens  will be helping us to start creating a garden from the rather bleak and derelict looking courtyard at St Georges. Last year we successfully applied for a grant to do this as part of the WI commitment to ‘greening london’, we had a meeting last September where Chris outlined what his plans were for the courtyard.

As usual our meeting will run from 6pm until 8:30pm. The doors should be opening from about 6ish.

If you could bring some refreshments that you are willing to share with other members present that would be super

Please please please ensure you have paid your membership fee for the year £30, you can do this online otherwise please pay Jane (our brilliant treasurer £3 on the night for each meeting you attend) 

***********Latest News**********
Gardening in St Georges Courtyard

Tuesday 26^th April

From 6pm onwards

At Last we can start on Phase 1 in the project to create a garden in the rear courtyard of St Georges-Bloomsbury.

Under the direction of Chris Raeburn the Community Gardener from Phoenix Gardener,  we will be painting containers, planting out the rockery etc.

Gardening equipment & brushes, Pimms / soft drinks and Snacks will be provided but bring your own gardening glove.








May WI meetings
Regular May meeting Tuesday 17th May - Craft at St Georges.

Extra WI meeting Thursday 19th May – “Women in Comedy – why women are funny”, at Seven Dials Club. 42 Earlham Street. Covent Garden. We  plan to organise one day courses and events later this year and want to “test drive” the facilities.

Food Hygiene Certificates
Certificates for Food Hygiene course should be distributed shortly if you have not got yours already please either speak to Kate or email Londonwestendwi@gmail.com

Grant application
We are looking to see if we can get some extra funding so that we can organise some more subsidised courses. We will let you know any progress we make with these applications.

Jams & Marmalades
No definite date as yet for this due to Bank Holidays etc but we hope to run it at 7 dials and either Claude or Tom will most probably run the course.

Summer course - Flower Arranging
We are hoping to run a one day Flower Arranging course one Sunday in July or August. With the possibility of holding a first ever Flower Arranging Competition at the Phoenix Garden’s Fair in September. More details to follow.

Hope you are all well and Happy Easter incase we don't see you

Claude & Kate


Dates for the Diary - April 2011

Please find attached a request from the Fairtrade Foundation asking for support in their efforts to achieve a bunting world record in conjunction with the WI in May. Please see attached document called Bunting.pdf which more fully explains their joint request of us at London West End WI.

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Brunswick Centre - Village Fete - WI stall - Saturday May 14th 2011

The Brunswick will be holding its Village Fete event on Saturday 14^th May, from 11am – 4pm.

If you would like to come along and help at stall this year you are more than welcome to please email londonwestendwi@gmail.com to confirm whether you will help on the day or make produce.

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Come along to the Fast Fashion Campaign Swish on Saturday 21^st May

St Brides Foundation, Fleet Street, EC4Y 8EQ

Drop off clothes from 1.30pm, Swish opens from 2.30

£5 entry

As part of the NFWI’s Fast Fashion campaign, WI members are invited to a Swish event to launch the next stage of the campaign.

The event will be a chance to spend a Saturday afternoon swapping clothes, shoes and accessories with WI members and friends from across London, while enjoying tea and cupcakes and finding out more about the Fast Fashion campaign.

The Swish will launch the next campaign actions for the WI’s Fast Fashion campaign, which aims to raise awareness of unfair wages and working conditions for garment workers and the environmental impact of clothing.

Sewing tutors from Traid will be on hand to help you adapt and alter your swish finds, as well as stalls to browse and a film screening.

Please bring along up to five items to swish – these can include clothing, accessories and shoes. You will then be issued with a voucher for each item that can then be exchanged for your swish finds.

Places are available on a first come first served basis, but early registration by emailing e.lindsay@nfwi.org.uk is essential. Do contact me if you would like any more information or have any questions.

Best wishes,

Emma Lindsay

Research and Campaigns Officer
National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI)
104 New Kings Road, London SW6 4LY
T: 020 7371 9300  (ex 213)

E: e.lindsay@nfwi.org.uk
www.theWI.org.uk

There are additional details in attached file called swish flyer.pdf

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7 Dials Festivals & Covent Garden Community Centre- Easter Weekend of Fun

42 Ear lham Street, WC2H 9LA

Saturday 23rd April - 12 noon to 4pm and Sunday 24th April - lunch 12.30 and 2pm

Lunch menu, snacks and a fully licensed bar available!

Please see attached pdf documents  called Easter Weekend  page 1 and page 2.pdf for further details of all events occurring at Earlham Street.

Sounds like a super fun day out over Easter.

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Trip to Woburn Abbey – Thursday 23^rd June 2011

Price will be £12 includes coach trip, entrance to the house, and a packed lunch

Bloomsbury is part of the Duke of Bedford’s Estate and each year the Friends of Russell Square organise a trip to Woburn Abbey There are 15 places available on a first come first served basis please email Kate know if you would like to go

londonwestendwi@gmail.com Bookable via blogspot and paypal in next few days

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John Bishop's Britain series 2

Laura Clark send us the following email :

I am working on the second series of John Bishop’s Britain – the Saturday night entertainment show for BBC1. This show was a huge success last summer so we are making another series. The show is hosted by comedian John Bishop himself but with the involvement of the general public.

We are looking once again for lots of different people, from all walks of life, from all over Britain to take part in the show. We want them to tell us funny, interesting stories from their lives on various topics. Our topics this year are…food, hobbies/DIY, music/fashion/shopping, friends, regional Britain, magical moments and Christmas.

We are really keen to represent British life and traditions and we really feel that The Women’s Institute is just that.

Please find below a couple of clips of the show from the first series to give you an idea of what it is like if you didn’t get to see. Due to John Bishop’s down to earth sense of comedy you’ll see that this show is a very inclusive and light hearted.

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHKthYVaoE

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fRKPz9UJQE&feature=related

If you would like to chat about this further please feel free to call me on 020 7202 2343. Or if you would be happy to forward on this email to your members that would be wonderful.

Please find attached our advert for the show which details some more information.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Laura

020 7202 2343

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American Orchestra performance May 1st 2011

I wanted to get in touch regarding an event we promoting for a Professional American Orchestra including a World Renowned Harpist in case it could of interest to your members, not just your branch of the WI but perhaps all your London branches. On the 1^st May 2011 we have a professional American Orchestra who are touring England and performing a Tribute to the Royal Wedding gala concert performance at the Royal College of Music in London. I have attached some details on the director of the orchestra, Marcy Sudock.

One of the reasons I thought this maybe of interest to the WI is as a fundraiser. The orchestra are not seeking to make a profit from the concert, on the contrary they are performing free of charge and are happy for all proceeds to go to local charities. I am not sure if you run charity events but we could supply you with tickets to sell on or raffle etc.

Please do let me know if this is of interest and we can discuss details further.

Thanks very much.

Kind regards

Robin Jackson

UK Travel Designers LTD

19 The Mall

Bromley

Kent

BR1 1TT

www.ukgrouptravel.com

Tel: 020 8325 8965

 
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“In Their Place” A three month season of work by women playwrights at the Finborough Theatre. March to June 2011

“In Their Place” is a three month season dedicated entirely to the voice of the female playwright. Running from March to June 2011 at the multi-award winning Finborough Theatre, the season celebrates the work of four inspirational women.

The three four-week runs are all by established female playwrights/composer, with each production exemplifying the three different strands of our artistic policy – rediscovered plays, music theatre and new writing – with a rediscovery by Caryl Churchill, the UK premiere of a musical with music by composer Polly Pen, and a world premiere of a new play by Naomi Wallace.

The three Sunday/Monday slots in the season are entirely devoted to introducing the UK to the work of one writer – multi-award-winning Canadian playwright, and our latest Playwright-in-Residence, Colleen Murphy – with a European premiere, a UK premiere and a world premiere of her work. This mini-season within a season marks Colleen’s UK debut.

www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk

Neil McPherson

Artistic Director

Finborough Theatre

118 Finborough Road

London SW10 9ED

Mobile (urgent enquiries only please) 07977 173135

Email neilmcpherson@finboroughtheatre.co.uk

Website www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk

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Volunteering - National Volunteers Week 1st to 7th June
Check out www.volunteersweek.org.uk

There is a Big Tea Party being held in South London on Sunday 5th of June 12:30 to 2:30 as part of national Volunteers week which is open to anyone interested in becoming a volunteer. A number of local voluntary groups will be co-hosting it. There will be the opportunity to network and speak to current volunteers.

Please do email Londonwestendwi@gmail.com if you are interested in attending and we will send you more details. The only criteria to attend is that you should bring a refreshment item you can share with atleast one other person.

Otherwise there are lots of Big Lunch gatherings occuring all over London, please check out www.thebiglunch.com

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Phoenix Gardens - Village Fete – Saturday 3^rd September 2011
Phoenix Gardens will be holding their annual fete in September this year. It was a fabulous experience last year and we have been asked to have a cake stall with the added plea that Please Please could we make more cakes, jams and marmalade as last year we sold out within 2 hours  More details as soon as we have them.

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Interesting websites for April
http://www.surnamedb.com
A most interesting site for looking up the origins of your surname.

http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/archives-new

An interesting site with lots of PD articles.

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If you want to get in touch pls do so via either our email address, or web presence listed below

londonwestendwi@gmail.com

www.londonwestendwi.co.uk

www.londonwestendwi.blogspot.com

Remember 1st Tuesday of the month is Sewing Group at Seven Dials.

3rd Tuesday of the month WI meeting at Upper Vestry Hall, St. Georges, Little Russell Street, London, WC1 

Please arrive after 6:00PM for 6:30PM Start.

Belated - March Dates for the Diary 2011

Hello Ladies
We are off to the Cartoon Gallery on Tuesday March 15th

Someone from LWWI will be outside the gates to St George's directing you to the Cartoon Gallery which is literally down the road at 35 Little Russell Street http://cartoonmuseum.org/
We hope to see lots of you there, the talk should be very interesting, we will be the only ones in the Gallery.
Please can a few committee members bring along a few refreshments (food,wine,juice to share with those WI members present)

As always any queries, offers, news etc that you wish to share please contact us via londonwestendwi@gmail.com


Keep checking the blog regularly. Sometimes there are multiple posts for dates for the diary of last minute news/events/offers that have come in after the offical monthly dates for the diary email has gone out to all of you.



LWWI News

Congratulations to all who took their food hygiene/safety course, everyone passed and we will pass on certificates as soon as they come back to us at LWWI.


Lynne Smith who was a member of LWWI 2009 and 2010 and active at W@W has now moved to New Zealand which is why we have not seen her in a while. She wanted to let us all know that she is ok and if anyone wants to keep in touch then she would love to hear from them

LWWI Monthly meeting Dates.

Tuesday 15th March - Cartoon Gallery visit (someone from WI will be outside St Georges to direct you to the Gallery if you are unsure where it is)

Tuesday 19th April - Gardening Project in Courtyard

Tuesday 17 May - Quilt/Crafting eveing

Thursday 19th May - Extra WI meeting - Comedy speaker to be arranged at 7 Dials Club

Tuesday 7thJune - Committee Meeting / Sewing Group / Vote (Meeting at 7 Dials Club open to all WI members)

Tuesday 21st June - WI Meeting (Details to be confirmed
It would be lovely if members from April onwards made a conscious effort to bring some refreshments they are willing to share with their fellow members. You don't have to have made it yourself, Shop bought is absolutely fine. I am sure you will agree that it is always nice to have something to snack on during the meetings.
Please note from April 19th we are proposing to ask for a £1 donation for a glass of wine to cover the cost of wine as recently it has been the same people constantly bringing wine to the meetings and this has seemed unfair. We do not want to make a profit just not have people out of pocket month on month. Tea, coffee, Juice etc will be available as usual at no charge.


LWWI Subscription fees


Apologies to ask again but can all LWWI members from 2010 ensure they have paid for 2011.

You will only be exempt from this if you paid your membership fees in October/November/December 2010. Otherwise your fees are due.

Fees cover the period January 2011 to December 2011.

Fees are £30 of which LWWI keeps about £12, the rest of the money goes to our federation and NFWI

Please either pay at the March meeting or via paypal. (Link to this at the bottom of the blog)

If you have not paid by March 31st come April you will be removed from our members mailing list and will cease to receive mailings from NFWI including your WI Life Magazine.


LWWI Survey

It has been proposed that we consider moving our monthly meeting from Bloomsbury to Covent Garden

Nothing is set in stone yet so don't worry.

As such we have created an online survey that will take about 5 minutes to complete.

You just select your viewpoint from the options given. There are 10 questions in total. 4 of these are compulsory.

It would be most helpful if everyone could complete the survey ideally by the end of March 2011. The survey is located here at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X95YR7C

Don't worry its all anonymous so we won't know who has completed the survey and who has not.

The proposed alternate location is 7 Dials Club, www.sevendialsclub.com


WI Raffle


There is a WI raffle occuring being run by NFWI, Tickets cost £1:00. Sixty percent of the money raised from the raffle goes to our local federation (Surrey).

First prize is £5000, with 4 runner up prizes and 10 additional prizes.

I have left the tickets with Jane our treasurer who will bring them to the meetings incase anyone wants to buy them.

Raffle is being drawn September 16th 2011.

All ticket stubs and monies must be back with NFWI by September 2nd 2011.



LWWI - Your WI needs You

It has been proposed that we set up a rota for certain jobs that happen every month at the WI meeting.
Kate is drawing up a list of the jobs that need doing each month that until recently only a few people have been doing and the strain of this has been proving to be too much. It would be fabulous if members might step forward and agree to help at a couple of meetings per year with certain jobs. (More news of this to come in the next month or so).




Other non WI related Dates for the Diary from March onwards

Soul Train - Tuesday, 8th March 2011 - 100th anniversary of International Women's Day

The day is promised to be full of fun, an event that not only raises awareness but also makes it fun for everyone participating! This event is organised by EQUALS, a colliation of many charities including Oxfam, Save the Children, The White Ribbon Alliance and is also supported and promoted by the NUS. This event is a host to celebrities such as, Annie Lennox, Paloma Faith, Gaby Roslin and many more!! This surely is an event that cannot be missed!

The Facebook link to the event is this:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130852933652191
"What’s the EQUALS soul train?

To celebrate 100 years of International Women’s Day through the international language of dance, EQUALS will be creating an EQUALS soul train. We’re inviting you to get down and groove with your EQUAL of the opposite sex - a friend, a relative, or a stranger. Whether you’re fresh to the scene or have been dancing for years, we can all disco!

Why soul train-ing?

Soul trains are all about men and women as equals. Equals as dance partners, equals in life. Both can shine equally in the soul train, with no one person leading or stealing the spotlight. The soul train also allows everyone to express themselves as they wish – whether you have two left feet or twinkletoes, or whether your preferred groove is salsa or hiphop. With our global soul train for International Women’s Day we want to show the world that if equality can be reality on the dancefloor, why not in all spheres of life? We’re using the soul train as a blueprint for how we want society to be…"
As you can see, this event really is important in terms of raising awareness of the fact that we ARE equal. We would all really appriciate it if you could help promote this event? There isn't much time left and we would really like to have as many people as possible!

This event is at:
Southbank Centre’s Jubilee Gardens

London,

United Kingdom
from 3:00pm - 6:00pm
You can also take a look at the promo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHrP-L7VHY

Bees

Capital Growth is running a second round of competitions for 10 London communities to win a beehive, protective clothing, basic tools training, mentoring, support to enable their community to set up with beekeeping by spring 2012. Info and application instructions at www.capitalbee.org



Breaking The Silence

International Women's Day 2011 - Tuesday, March 15th 7.00 pm £5/3 conc.
Naomi Alderman, Sarah Blake, Elif Shafak

Panel Discussion Chaired by Homa Khaleeli

To celebrate International Women's Day, Woolfson & Tay are pleased to host a Penguin Books' event with renowned authors Naomi Alderman, Sarah Blake and Elif Shafak. Guardian journalist Homa Khaleeli will chair a panel discussion on the topics of 'Breaking The Silence' concerning women and self-censorship.
Naomi Alderman was born in London and brought up in the Orthodox Jewish community in Hendon where she still lives. Her first novel, Disobedience, was published in ten languages; it was read on BBC radio's Book at Bedtime and won the Orange Award for New Writers. Penguin published her second novel, The Lessons in April 2010. In 2007, she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. She broadcasts regularly, and writes a weekly games column for the Guardian.
Sarah Blake lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, the poet Josh Weiner, and their two sons. Born in New York City, Sarah Blake is the author of a chapbook of poems, Full Turn (Pennywhistle Press, 1989), an artist book, Runaway Girls (Hand Made Press, 1997) in collaboration with the artist, Robin Kahn, and two novels. Her first novel, Grange House, (Picador, 2000) was named a “New and Noteworthy” paperback in August, 2001 by The New York Times. Her second novel, The Postmistress, was published by Penguin in January 2011.
Elif Shafak is a Turkish writer and the best-selling female novelist in Turkey. She has published novels written in Turkish as well as English. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages around the world. Shafak’s work blends Western and Eastern traditions of storytelling to generate a fiction that is both local and universal. Her work draws on diverse cultures and literary traditions, as well as deep interest in history, philosophy and oral culture. Shafak’s writing has been defiant of bigotry and xenophobia, deeply involved in feminism, Sufism, individualism and Ottoman culture, with ‘a particular genius for depicting backstreet Istanbul’.

To book for this event, please see: http://www.woolfsonandtay.com/intl-womens-day.html


INNER SPACE CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY - March 5th 2011

Title: Life in a Handbag

Date: Saturday 5 March

Time: 1.30pm – 4pm

Venue: Wallace Space, Duke’s Road, London WC1H 9PN (nearest tube stations, Kings Cross & Euston)

Free

A handbag is a woman’s best friend, a woman’s own private little sanctuary; a mystery to everyone but herself! As bits and pieces of a woman’s personality and life come together in her handbag. Explore self-development using the ‘handbag’ metaphor. An event for women by women.
LIFE IN A HANDBAG
Attend 4 SESSIONS (20 min each) from the following:

short talks . . .

1. Fit Everything, Mary Poppins Style! - creating a diverse life portfolio

2. The Mobile Phone - talking is good, too much talking may not be

3. What your Handbag says about You? - organised or a disorganised free spirit?


meditations . . .


4. De-clutter your Bag - get rid of things that don’t work for you

5. The Make-Up - sparkle with confidence

6. Put your Handbag Down - give your back a break

7. Refill your Purse - recharge for abundance


reflective exercises . . .


8. Pack Smart - essentials you just can’t live without

9. Handbag Wars - stop being a drama queen

10. The Umbrella - ready for a rainy day, for every eventuality

11. Forward Planner - what’s next


Registration essential. email: event@innerspace.org.uk
Once you have registered, you will receive an e-form to choose your 4 sessions.
Organised by: Inner Space l 020 7836 6688 l http://www.innerspace.org.uk/

The International Day for Street Children - 12th April 2011

The International Day for Street Children: Louder Together is launched on 12th April, a new campaign to give a louder voice to the millions of street children all around the world. Governments need to listen. We want to help make this happen. We must give street children a voice. Together we are louder and have more impact so we are asking everyone to Raise your Voices for Street Children.

The International Day is being celebrated across the globe: by street children in Morocco, Guatemala and India; school children in the UK; students in Ireland; the Consortium for Street Children and its 60 members in over 130 countries; Aviva in the 28 countries in which it operates; and politicians in Tanzania and the UK.

All countries have signed and ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (other than the USA and Somalia) and have a legal obligation to work towards ensuring that all children’s rights are integrated into national law. The Convention sets out every child’s right to protection, participation, provision, and prevention from harm. It is universally recognised that all children should have these rights realised; however many government policies and practices still do not include street children.
The International Day is supported by Aviva, the world’s sixth largest insurance group, as part of their global Street to School programme which aims to help 500,000 street children get back into education or training over the next five years.



Future Dates for the diary


Open Garden Squares 11th - 12th June 2011

http://www.opensquares.org

Selina one of our members is keen to do this

If anyone else is interested in going around to see some of London's secret gardens then perhaps they might get in touch

I did it one year and it was fabulous. Who knew there was so much hidden green peaceful space.



The Big Lunch - June 5th 2011


http://www.thebiglunch.com/

Denman Taster Day - 26th May 2011

Cost is £40 at Denman College in Oxford. Pls see either WI Life or book via NFWI website.

If you need more details please contact londonwestendwi@gmail.com and we will try and get you more information.



Ceilidh - Kate has asked that her apologies be made but at the present time she has had to postpone the planned Ceilidh which she had hoped to organise for the end of April 2011. 
As soon as Kate has a new date those details will be posted here
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Making a difference in the community

Jam Jars

Ladies pls can everyone make a conscious effort to save their jam jars.

Sometimes we need them if we are doing a jam sessions as in one of our regular Monthly meetings so that people can potentially take away a jar. We also need them for the jam makers who will produce jam for us to sell them on the stalls at various fundraising opportunities we usually take part in.

Used stamps

Please can I also personally ask you to save any used stamps you receive on letters as another charity I am involved with can make use of these and turn them into cash to help school aged children in the Gambia. Please bring along any you have to WI meetings.

Sponsored 10K run - Charity needs runners to run on their behalf.

Is anyone interested in taking part in a 10k run?

A charity helping various elements within the community (older residents, children in need, refuge/hostel occupants) has asked us if we might have ladies willing to run on their behalf.

It is the British London 10K run on Sunday, 10th July starting at 9.35am. Starts at Piccadily and finishes at Whitehall.

This is the link to their webpage: http://www.thebritish10klondon.co.uk/
Anyone interested can email Julia whose email address is juliafcoggins@gmail.com by the end of March 2011.
The Charity will book the places. The charity's website is www.voluntarycarecentre.co.uk


W@W

As always we are still very actively involved with Women at the Well.

We might have sister Linda come back in again to speak to us at one of our monthly meetings.

If anyone wants to find out what we are doing or get more involved at THE WELL, please speak to either Jane White or Kate Matheson.


Useful/Interesting website

I am proposing to add to the very bottom of certain dates for the diary emails/ blog entries any useful sites that we come across that we think could be of benefit to all members. Perhaps other members can suggest sites they think members might find useful. These can cover recipes, craft, current affaris etc.

In the current economic climate I am currently pointing out the useful nature of these 2 sites.
A new associate of mine has set up a website called www.homesavingexpert.co.uk which literally does what is says on the jar.
And ofcourse Martin Lewis' http://www.moneysavingexpert.com which is always good for offers/advice etc/freebies etc.
See you all soon

Claude & Kate

LWWI Secretaries

londonwestendwi@gmail.com

http://www.londonwestendwi.co.uk/

www.londonwestendwi.blogspot.com

Additional Dates for the Diary - Feb 2011

Kind offer from East End WI

As a fellow WI member (East End WI) I wanted to pass on some details about a free  event we are organising which I think your members might be interested in. All the  lectures in this lecture series are free and open to all and it is a quality line  up of speakers and events. Not often you get things like this for free in London!

I have pasted in some text below which should give people all the information they  need and I hope you would be happy to forward this on to your members. Tickets are  available online right now. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any  questions!


LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival: Crossing Borders, Wednesday 16 - Saturday  19 February 2011
Tickets are now available for the LSE Literary Festival 2011: Crossing Borders,  which will be taking place from Wednesday 16 - Saturday 19 February.  The  programme of events is designed to cross disciplinary, international and  metaphorical borders, exploring the interaction between the arts and social  sciences.  All events are free and open to all, but a ticket must be booked  online.
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/spaceForThought/LiteraryFestival2011/Home.aspx
Speakers at the Festival include sci-fi author Ken McLeod, legendary actor Ron  Moody, cartoonist Steve Bell, historian Laurence Rees and journalist Jill  McGivering as well as award-winning and best-selling writers Blake Morrison, John  Gray, Lionel Shriver, Elif Shafak and Geoff Dyer and former poet-laureate Andrew  Motion.
This event was made possible by the support of the LSE Annual Fund, Garanti Bank  and Michael Uva. 
Ticket Information:  http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/spaceForThought/LiteraryFestival2011/TicketInfo rmation.aspx

Best wishes Veronika

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Another music concert we have been emailed about

Just wanted to let all music lovers know about a  fantastic concert
http://www.msf.org.uk/events.aspx

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Yazmin from Bake With Me wants to come to the Feb meeting to talk about Bake with  me.

This year we are hoping to launch a new nationwide fundraising event called Bake  with Me and I wondered if I could come along to your next Women's Institute  meeting and maybe speak to a small group of approx 8 people to ask their opinions  on our new event?

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Go to a not to be broadcast tv pilot in Chelsea on Monday 21st Feb

Well known TV production company are making a not-for-broadcast television pilot about Life Coaches where top Motivational Experts mentor undiscovered talent in the industry.
On Monday 21 February there will be an exciting motivational session taking place, led by the experts and the up and coming professionals. We are looking for people who would be interested in coming along to be part of the audience and get inspired!
The filming will take place in Chelsea, in London, between 11:45 and 1:15pm.

As we do have a limited number of places for this exclusive event anyone interested in coming along needs to email mia.lane@endemoluk.com for a place on the guest list and the details of the location.

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Our Save Our Forests campaign is creating a national sensation! We now have nearly  half a million signatures on our petition -- that's more than the population of  Liverpool. [1]

That’s because we understand something the government doesn’t: our natural forests  are priceless, and once they’re gone - they’re gone forever.

Our campaign is already all over the news and politicians are getting increasingly  nervous. That’s why the most important thing we can do right now is spread the  word and ensure our petition continues to grow as quickly as possible. [2]

Please forward this email to your friends and ask them to sign. All they have to  do is click on the link and add their names:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-forests

Government ministers are trying to distract us with warm and fuzzy words about how  much they love the forests. They've announced a "consultation" on how we'd like  our forests sold off - even though they already know most of us don't want them  sold off at all!

Even before this so-called consultation finishes they're busy trying to change the  laws that currently protect public forests. This is blatantly clearing the way for  a massive sell-off. What kind of consultation is that?

Don’t let them get away with it - tell everyone you know about our campaign right  now.
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-forests

If they want a consultation, here it is: 38 Degrees members chipped in to fund a  national opinion poll which proved that 84% of the public want our forests kept in  public hands for future generations.

Places like the Forest of Dean, the New Forest, Grizedale, Thetford, and Alice  Holt are national treasures. We don’t want the natural places that belong to  future generations flogged off for a quick cash grab today. But if we don’t rally  together now, we may not have a choice.

Our petition already has over 470,000 names on it, including yours. Can you help  us get to 500,000? Please forward this email and ask your friends to add their  name:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-forests

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This month’s body confidence message (We had a most interesting debate last summer about Body Image and its presentation in the media and we have a campaigning committee who are passionate about this subject.)

From now on, every month we’ll be sharing a body confidence message in this  newsletter – sent in by you, our supporters. This could be a top tip for feeling  good about yourself, an experience you’d like to share or an interesting fact.

To get the ball rolling, this month’s message comes from Lynn Crilly:
“Learning to like and accept yourself for who you are and not who you think you  should be will give you an inner strength, enabling you to follow your dreams and  aspirations to the best of your ability"

Want to see your message in next month’s newsletter? Send your thoughts to  info@bodyconfidence.org.uk

The Centre for Appearance Research joins the Campaign for Body Confidence

We are very pleased to welcome the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) to the  Campaign’s steering group! CAR is based at the University of the West of England,  Bristol, focusing on psychological and interdisciplinary research into appearance,  disfigurement and body image.

At present CAR are working with our campaign partners Central YMCA on a study into  the impact of airbrushing and labelling on body image – watch this space for their  findings!

For more info on CAR’s work, see their website – www.hls.uwe.ac.uk/research/car

Endangered Species unveils ad campaign

Susie Orbach’s Endangered Species London summit is coming to the Southbank Centre  on March 4th. It will be accompanied by events around the world celebrating body  diversity and challenging the culture that teaches women and girls to dislike  their own bodies.

To launch the summit, Endangered Species invited advertising and creative agencies  from around the UK to submit ideas for its billboard campaign. The winning entry,  by Manchester’s Red C agency, has just been unveiled and you can look out for it  at 11 sites across the capital over the next month. You can also see it here -  www.endangeredspecieswomen.org.uk/media

For more info about Endangered Species see the website -  www.endangeredspecieswomen.org.uk

All Walks present ‘Snapped’ at the National Portrait Gallery

All Walks Beyond the Catwalk are celebrating fashion, beauty and diversity at the  National Portrait Gallery this Friday, 11th February. From 6-10pm All Walks will  be curating an evening of exciting events surrounding the question, ‘has fashion  become the lens by which we evaluate identity today?’.

All Walks will be taking participants on a photographic trail through nine new  Rankin portraits created by AW and major fashion designers (including Stella  McCartney and Vivienne Westwood) using a diversity of models. There will also be  life drawing and fashion illustration masterclasses, casting for a live portrait  shoot, interactive artworks by Josephine Chime and a debate between Lorraine Candy  (Editor, Elle), Lynne Featherstone (Minister for Equalities), Linda Papadopoulos  (psychologist) and Erin O’Connor (model and co-founder, AW).

The event is free and all are welcome to attend – see attached flyer and for more  information visit - www.npg.org.uk/whatson/late-shift/late-shift-extra-snapped

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image

As part of the Campaign for Body Confidence, in the next few months we will be  establishing a cross-party interest group for MPs on Body Image – known as an All -Party Parliamentary Group (APPG). The APPG on Body Image will build support  across all the political parties for the body confidence agenda and as a future  project may conduct an inquiry into the causes, consequences and possible  solutions in combating body image anxiety.

A number of MPs have already said that they would like to play an active role in  the group – including Jo Swinson, Caroline Nokes and Mary Glindon. However, the  more members the better, and we’d love to hear from your MP – so we’ve created an  email for you to send to them telling them why the group is so important and  inviting them to express their interest, which can be found at:  http://campaignforbodyconfidence.wordpress.com/appg

Central YMCA will be providing the secretariat to the group and we hope to launch  the APPG this spring - more news soon!

Central YMCA and University of Westminster team up to speak to young people about  body image

Central YMCA and its operation Y Touring have secured funding to work with the  University of Westminster to develop and evaluate ways of promoting body  confidence in children and young people. The project will start in February, and  will attempt to identify effective ways of engaging young people in discussion and  debate about their body image in both schools and informal education.

Royal College of Psychiatrists Christmas debate

In December, Jo Swinson MP participated in the Royal College of Psychiatrists’  Christmas debate, ‘are the media to blame for eating disorders?’ with two teams of  psychiatrists, chaired by Dr Jim Bolton. The College told us that it was the best -attended debate they have held, well-represented and informative.

Jo set the scene by discussing how poor body image and low self-esteem contribute  to eating disorders. Whilst both teams agreed about the negative effects of the  bombardment of ‘perfect’ figures in media images, they acknowledged that the  causes of eating disorders are more complex that one factor alone.

For more information on the work of the Royal College, visit – www.rcpsych.ac.uk
The podcast of the debate will available be on the CBC website soon.

Sexualisation and commercialisation of childhood review

Back in December, Childrens’ Minister Sarah Teather asked Reg Bailey from the  Mothers’ Union to carry out an independent review on commercialisation and  sexualisation of childhood, to address parents’ concerns about the pressures on  children to grow up too quickly.

The consultation is now calling for the submission of evidence until March 18th  2011, and is expected to report back in May.
You can submit evidence to the consultation at the following website -
www.education.gov.uk/consultations/index.cfm? action=consultationDetails&consultationId=1749&external=no&menu=1

Get involved
·         Forward this newsletter to a friend and ask them to sign up to the  Campaign for Body Confidence.
·         Spread the word by writing to your MP to tell her/him about the campaign  and the Body Image APPG.  Find out who your MP is, and write to them here -  www.theyworkforyou.com – and our template letter about the Body Image APPG is here  - http://campaignforbodyconfidence.wordpress.com/appg
·         Have you found misleading and retouched advertisements? Make a complaint  to the Advertising Standards Association. If you find an advertisement that has  clearly been digitally altered to an extent that distorts people’s perception of  bodies – log a complaint on the ASA’s website - www.asa.org.uk/Complaints-and-ASA -action/How-to-complain
·         Perhaps you’ve got questions, suggestions or a body confidence message  to share with us? Email info@bodyconfidence.org.uk – we’d really like to hear from  you.
That's all for this month!

Best wishes,

Campaign for Body Confidence

Pippa Page
info@campaignforbodyconfidence.org.uk
0207 219 8088 - 308 Portcullis House, House of Commons, Westminster, London SW1A  0AA

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Dates for the Diary - Feb 2011

WI Dates for the Diary - Feb 2011

Food Hygiene Course - Saturday 5th Feb

Final few days to sign up for the Food Hygiene course which is being run in Covent Garden.

Please pay via paypal link at the bottom of the blogspot

http://www.londonwestendwi.blogspot.com/

If you took the course the last time we ran it, please be aware that your certificate is valid for 3 years only and so runs out in 2011.

If you have any queries please do get in touch

Course fees are £25 which is less than the price of taking the course online and half the price of the taking the course in person at another establishment. (We, LWWI, are supplementing the full course fees for all attendees.)

Jam & Marmalade Workshop - postponed for a few weeks

Due to a lower than expected uptake on the food hygiene course, and because we need a certain number of qualified food safety people at the jam workshop as we hope to sell some of what is made, we are going to have to postpone the course for a few weeks until we get back results for some attendees.

Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience of rescheduling.

Please check your email if you indicated you wish to attend or check the blog/website for the new rearranged date.

If you hope to sell preserves or cakes on behalf of the WI please do consider attending the Food Hygiene Course.

February London West End WI Meeting - Feb 15th

The February guest for our WI meeting will be Marietta from Transition Towns.

Please check out their website http://www.transitionnetwork.org/

Sewing Group as usual will be meeting Tuesday March 1st at Seven Dials.

Please do come along, all welcome.

March London West End WI meeting - Tuesday March 15th

We are going over to the Cartoon Museum just down the street from where we normally meet.

Please check out their website http://cartoonmuseum.org/

LWWI Website

Our website is progressing quite beautifully. Please do check it out.

http://www.londonwestendwi.co.uk/

Twitter

We seem to be gaining additional followers via twitter, Thanks so much to Vanessa who is our main new media updater and quite possibly thanks also to Professor Butterworth who came in to see us in January who gave us a most insightful and enjoyable talk and then tweeted about us.

British Museum - Preview of Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World on Sunday 27th February 2011.

The BM have invited us to the Community Preview of Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World at the British Museum, on Sunday 27th February 2011. The exhibition preview will take place between 12 – 5pm (last entry will be at 4pm), and all community groups who wish to bring group members to view the exhibition are welcome.

Kite Making Activity – Great Court, 12 – 2pm

Take part in a creative kite making and decorating activity. Using traditional colours and Afghan patterns decorate your very own kite and explore the significance of this popular Afghani pastime.

Community Evening View

They will also be holding a Community Evening View of the exhibition in late May. Further details of this community view will be available nearer the time.

Please do let us know if you wish to attend the special preview by emailing us at londonwestendwi@gmail.com

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NON WI Related Events

Free Tickets to Ideal Home Show for 21-27 March 2011. Available via http://www.idealhomeshow.co.uk/ then go to the booking section of the site and put in the code MOS11.

Apparently they are giving away 20,000 tickets but the weekend ones are already gone.

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Haringey Council - International Women’s Day - 12th March

Haringey Council are hosting an event on 12 March to coincide with International Women’s Day. They theme of the day is resourcefulness in the recession, and they have a number of organisations involved including financial services who will be advising delegates on budgeting and spending, and an organisation that will be hosting a clothes swap shop. The council have been in touch asking if any WI’s are interested in having a stall, or hosting a workshop, or both if you have the energy! They are expecting around 1,000 women to attend so it could be a good opportunity to recruit new members.

If you are interested in getting involved please contact:

ursula.stone@haringey.gov.uk

020 8489 2585

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Million Women Rise - March 5th

Shoreditch Sisters have been in touch as they will be attending the Million Women Rise march against violence against women on 5 March. If other WI’s are planning to attend and would like to join up with the Shoreditch Sisters please contact Shoreditch Sisters Secretary Caroline Brooks on brookscaroline79@gmail.com. We will be lending out the handful of WI placards we have here at head office for use at the march.

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Women Reaching Women Conference, 12th April

The conference is free and open to all members and representatives from international development and gender organisations will also be invited. We will send out a confirmed programme of the day in due course.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Best wishes,

Sara

Sara Mason

Campaigns and Administration Assistant

National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI)

104 New Kings Road, London SW6 4LY

T: 020 7371 9300,ext 211

F: 020 7736 3652

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Soil Association

Kathryn one of our members sent us the following which she thought some people might be interested in:

I've recently received a letter from Soil Association asking for support to stop the introduction of pig superfarms to the UK. Pigs are not meant to be confined indoors and keeping this many enclosed so tightly could have serious risk to local environment and human health. 60% of all anibiotics in farming are given to pigs. And they are the same as or closely related to those given to humans. There is reason to be concerned about the build up of antibiotic resistant genes. Then there will be the huge reservoirs of pig slurry etc.

Powerful libel lawyers are attempting to silence Soil Association, for raising their concerns.

If any of our members are interested in finding out more or lending their support they can go to www.soilassociation.org/notinmybanger.aspx

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EC4 choir concert - Barbican - Friday March 11th, 19.30

Susan Evans another our members has sent us the following information

EC4 choir and music are putting on a concert at the Barbican on Friday March 11th, 19.30 (see below for details). Ticket prices are £10, £20, £25, £35 but with a £5 reduction on any of these prices if you quote 'EC4 Music Offer'. All profits to the Prince's Trust. The last time we did this we raised thousands for the trust. Please tell your friends.

You can book direct with the Barbican online booking office or I can do a block booking.

The concert: Barbican Hall

Prokofiev Concerto No 3 in C major for Piano & Orchestra

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Duruflé Requiem, Op 9

EC4 Choir and Orchestra

Tim Crosley conductor

Olga Stezhko piano

Claire Seaton soprano

EC4 Music is delighted to return for its fifth fundraising concert in aid of The Prince's Trust with an evocative programme to stir the senses. Conductor Tim Crosley welcomes young Belarusan pianist Olga Stezhko for her debut Barbican performance with Prokofiev's wonderfully lyrical third Piano Concerto. We also hear Mussorgsky's ever-popular Pictures at an Exhibition and are treated to a performance of Duruflé's exquisite Requiem.

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Writing courses

New independent bookshop, cafe, and gallery Woolfson & Tay in Bermondsey Square, London SE1 offers an exciting series of writing and performance workshops for a creative start to 2011.

Woolfson & Tay Bookshop & Gallery, 12 Bermondsey Square, London SE1 3UN www.woolfsonandtay.com Tel. 0207 407 9316

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Comedy, music and more - celebrating 100 years of International Women’s Day - KOKO, Camden, Tuesday 8th March 2011

We are producing a sparkling, innovative evening of entertainment featuring stand up, character, sketches, magic and music. This will take place on Tuesday 8th March International Women’s Day (IWD) at the well known entertainment venue, KOKO in London’s Camden Town, a mecca for music, fashion and comedy.

Funny Women has celebrated IWD with a comedy show for the last seven years. However, this year is the 100th Anniversary of the first ever IWD and this new variety event is the perfect way to mark the occasion and engage the next generation of British women to carry on the tradition of celebrating the day.

The 100thAnniversary of IWD is being celebrated all over the world and our event aims to make young British women more aware of their role in western society and recognise that not all women globally have the same freedom and opportunities that are open to us.

Awareness for IWD has grown in the UK since Funny Women started out in 2002, and there is now a wide range of activities being planned across the UK to celebrate IWD being organised by different groups and networks under the banner of the EQUALS? Campaign see http://www.weareequals.org/. Despite this, the day itself remains an enigma - it isn’t always a news item, there’s no public holiday and it’s not necessarily ‘cool’ or even part of the agenda for the next generation of young women.

Music and comedy are both brilliant mediums for communicating messages – from protest songs to subversive humour, they are a barometer of our culture that we can use to reflect how women’s lives have changed over the last 100 years.

So this show is a modern day ‘march’ on the perceptions of women. It begins with a live show which features female opinion formers and role models. We will invite acts to perform stand up, sketch, music, magic, song, dance and even a bit of drama as we tell a story of change – past, present and future.

Our target audience is broad but the event is aimed at 18 to 25 year olds who are not as aware as we would like them to be. The essence of our event is to make this the place to be on the 8th March – a true celebration in an accessible, fun environment with the message being delivered with a memorable performance.

If you would like to be involved we are looking for sponsorship to cover production costs and organisations and individuals to help us market the show and sell tickets. There is also a corporate entertainment opportunity if you would like to entertain your customers or clients. Please either give us a call or email us at womensday@funnywomen.com so that we can send you more information.

If you work with a charity or NGO and would like to be part of the ‘big picture’ please visit http://www.weareequals.org/ and join the big debate. We want to make sure that women’s voices are properly heard on this very special anniversary.

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1A Arts Course for parents and children.

1A ARTS etc is offering parents and children (aged 7+) another chance to unleash their inner animator and give the creators of Wallace and Gromit a run for their money! This 3 session course will brighten up boring weekends in March. All participants will take home a DVD of their animation brought to life with their own characters and story. Please see attached for details. Early booking is recommended! Please forward this to anyone you know who might be interested. If you would like hard copies of this publicity for your workplace please call or email me to let me know how many copies you would like.

Kind regards

Caroline Lister

Director

1A ARTS etc

The 1A Centre

1A Rosebery Avenue

London EC1R 4SR

Tel: 020 7837 3332 Mobile: 07870 197 834

http://www.1a-arts-etc.co.uk/

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Student Volunteering Week 21st - 27th Feb.

Don't miss out! 21st - 27th February

Please do stay in touch via twitter, the blogspot and website if any of you have any news that you would like to share with us please do get in touch.

See you soon

LWWI Secretaries

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londonwestendwi@gmail.com

www.londonwestendwi.co.uk

http://www.londonwestendwi.blogspot.com/

1st Tuesday of the month Sewing Group at Seven Dials.

3rd Tuesday of the month WI meeting at Upper Vestry Hall, St. Georges, Little Russell Street, London, WC1