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EVENTS

OPENING HOURS: The office is open for calls and visitors from 9am -1pm Monday to Thursday. Our staff working hours extend either side of these times on the four days and if you wish to call, collect or leave items outside of these hours, please make arrangements with them to do so.

CLASSES AND EVENTS: Please remember to send these to WI House for the attention of Trudi Tayloe and to email wfwi02@tiscali.co.uk Don’t forget to send the appropriately sized stamped addressed envelope for any reply.

FRONT COVER: The Lord Leycester Hospital Garden is this month’s front cover photograph in anticipation of the Spring Area Meeting.

WFWI WEBSITE: Calling all WIs with their own website, Jill, our web mistress, would like your details to add on to the ‘find a WI’ page on website. Don’t forget to let Jill know any of your WI events or activities as well. Email her on worcswi@yahoo.co.uk.
There is a lot of information to be found on the website, both local and National. Please check regularly as this is constantly updated.

THE OLYMPIC SITES OF LONDON: Monday 19th March and Thursday 19 April 2012. Details have already been circulated to your Secretary. The coach will drop you at Covent Garden with free time for lunch and shopping, followed by a Coach tour with a Blue Badge Guide of the Olympic sites and will leave London at 4.30pm. Cost: members £27, non members £29 (lunch not included). The closing date is 22 February or 21 March 2012. Please apply to office for late availability.

SPRING AREA MEETINGS: Tuesday 27 March at 1.30-3.30pm at Abberley Hall School; with guest speaker Colin Alderson “Life in the Palace Kitchens” followed by the Queen’s favourite tea. Cost: £10 per person. Closing date for applications: 23 February 2012. Please apply to office for late availability.
Wednesday 28 March at 7-9pm at Peopleton Village Hall with guest speaker Lt Col. Lesinski, Master of the Lord Leycester Hospital. Cost: £7 per person. Closing date for applications: 23 February 2012. Please apply to office for late availability.

AGM: Wednesday 30 May 2012. Due to the Queen’s Jubilee and the Olympic Games, London hotel prices have risen dramatically and therefore the decision was taken not to stay overnight. We will now travel down early that morning and hope to leave The Albert Hall at approximately 4.45. Please refer to letter sent out to your Secretary in the last mailing. If you would like to attend as an Observer, please contact WI House before the 15 March. Tickets £17; coach fare £12.50.
Delegates Expenses- Due to these changes Delegates out of pocket expenses, payable to them by their Link WIs, will now only be £5. Please ensure that these are sent to your Link Delegate.

MEMORABLE MADNESS FOR MARCH

Mops to the fore ladies and begin that spring clean that we are all so desperate to do - NOT!

Mothering Sunday - This year is the 18th March. It is not a fixed day because it is always the fourth Sunday of Lent, which lasts from Ash Wednesday to the day before Easter Sunday. Traditionally, people visited the Mother church where they were baptized. This meant that families were reunited as adults returned to the towns and villages where they grew up. Modern Mothering Sunday is now a celebration of motherhood, honouring mothers and other mother figures, such as grandmothers, stepmothers and mothers-in-law. Many people make a special effort by giving gifts and flowers.

British Summer Time - Begins on Sunday 25th March, so don’t forget to put your clocks forward one hour!!!!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING WORCESTERSHIRE WINNERS

You will all be aware that we are a Registered Charity and are therefore governed by the Charity Commission's regulations on “gambling”. This means that a WI can no longer purchase any Prize Draw raffle tickets with their members’ funds as this is deemed as “gambling”.

However, individual members ARE able to buy their own tickets. So rather than discontinue this Prize Draw we have decided to offer every member the fantastic opportunity to take part for just £5 per ticket. This entitles you to be included in each draw for the whole of the Worcestershire Winners year!!!!There is also no restriction on the number of tickets you can buy, so remember:
You’ve got to be in it, to win it!

Unfortunately this legislation is beyond our control and we, as ever, greatly appreciate your support.

Click here to read the full rules for Worcestershire Winners.

Click here to download an application form.