Wantage WI Programme April 2025 to April 2026
Wantage WI Programme April 2024 to April 2025
Wantage WI Programme April 2023 to April 2024
April 12th – Wicked wit of Churchill- Stewart Linford
May 10th – King’s Coronation celebration – Carol Doughty
June 14th – WW2 Rationing – Karen Wiles
July 12th – A Passion for Fashion – Antonia Keaney
August 9th – Summer Party
September 13th – Poisons as Medicines -Towse Harrison
October 11th – History of British Toastmaster – Jim MacLeod
November 8th – Birthday Party – President’s choice
December 13th – Christmas Lunch
January 10th – Daisy’s Story – John Caldicott
February 14th – TV Air Ambulance – Sian Paskin
March 13th – Annual Meeting
Wantage WI Programme January 2022 to January 2023
12 January 2022 – Muriel Pilkington – The Mitfords in the Cotswolds (historical/educational/entertaining)
9 February – John Caldecott – The Foundling Hospital (historical /educational)
March – Annual Meeting
13 April – Jeff Roselaar – An Actors Life for Me (entertaining)
11 May – Members meeting
8 June – Jennifer Maxwell (not zoom) – North and South Korea (educational and pictorial)
13 July – Jessica Beare – How Recycling Works (educational/environmental)
10 August – Summer tea party
14 September – Peter Barratt – Suffragette – Alice Hawkins – (family history/educational)
12 October – Anna Steven – Ashmolean Museum or Dreaming Spires – to be arranged (educational/archeological)
9 November – President’s choice 13th Anniversary
14 December – Christmas Lunch
11 January 2023 – Gerald Dickens – on Charles Dickens subject to be agreed
Sept 21 – Feb 2022
08 September:- Al Sylvester
Southern Reach an epic adventure to the South Pole
13 October:- Liz Woolley
Leisure & Entertainment in Victorian & Edwardian Oxford
10 November:- Ian Keable
The Art of Trickery (Wantage WI 12th Anniversary)
08 December:- Christmas lunch at The Comrades Club
12 January:- Muriel Pilkington
The Mitfords in the Cotswolds
09 February:- John Caldecott
The Foundling Hospital
The new Zoom programme.
I am very excited to be able tell you we have something that looks like a programme! All on zoom!
Update from Madeline.
Wantage WI Speakers 2020-21
June 2020 Myths & Legends of the Stars – Valerie Calderbank
July 2020 Walk to Freedom – Al Sylvester
Aug 2020 Working for Aunty – Christine Green
9 Sept 2020 Glorious Coloured Gemstones – Helen Plumb
14 October 2020 & 11 November Ian Fleming, his famous friends and the birth of Bond – Jeff Roselaar
9 December 2020 A Special Christmas (3 table decorations) – Christine Ramsey
13 January 2021 Dragons and Rescue Dogs” – my inspiration to write books – Debi Evans
10 February Mike Hurst – singer, songwriter and guitarist will talk about his time with the Springfields
10 March 2021 Annual Meeting
14 April 2021 19th century soldier called Primrose*- Dr Caroline Jackson
12 May 2021 Wallis Simpson – Richard Anderson*
9 June 2021 The Art of the Limited Edition – Stewart Linford*
14 July 2021 North & South Korea – Jennifer Maxwell*
11 August 2021 – nothing booked
8 September 2021 An actors life for me – Jeff Rozelaar*
Cancel previously booked December 2020 – County Emergency Planning Carol Mackay*
Re-book Al Sylvester – South Pole Walk – date to be fixed
*Currently not a power point/zoom presentation check out if this has changed.
Up dated 20th August 2021
Wednesday 27th May 11:00am
Rita’s Quiz
Tuesday 2nd June 6pm
Lesley Holdship ~ Cooking demonstration
Gnocchi with seasonal sauces
Wednesday 3rd June 11:00am
Rita’s Quiz
Wednesday 3rd June 14:00pm
Committee meeting ~ for committee
Wednesday 10th June 11:00am
Valerie Calderbank ~ Myths and legends of the stars
How other cultures have interpreted the night sky. What legends have existed in these cultures
Wednesday 17th June 11:00am
Rita’s Quiz
Wednesday 1st July 14:00pm
Committee meeting ~ for committee
Wednesday 8th July 11:00am
Al Sylvester ~ Walk to Freedom
Individual physical strength and mental resilience. Al presents a heart on the sleeve presentation about his unsupported 881 mile walk between Land’s End to John O’ Groats in under 40 days in memory of his best friend who succumbed to Cancer at the age of 43. Al describes the shear grit and determination required to prove that any person or any team can achieve their objective, if the task is planned, trained and executed with discipline.
He compares this extreme endurance challenge with that of personnel within management and to those who challenge themselves daily on the shop floor. He proves it’s not just the physical challenge, but with mental resilience and passionate communication he successfully completed this torturous journey while raising almost £28K in the process for the hospice who provided his best friend palliative care.
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