Hello Malagoers
Thank you to everyone who was able to come to our April meeting. The creative juices were following and we were able to make some fantastic bunting to help brighten up the hall and decorate the Malago WI stall at upcoming fairs. If you took some home to finish, it would be great if you could bring it with you.
This month, we are lucky to have two speakers, Mary Hall and Zoe Hunt.
Mary has been teaching lip-reading classes to hard of hearing, and deaf people, for over 15 years. Having grown up with two profoundly deaf parents, she feels strongly that deafness is an isolating condition but that it needn’t be like that. Lip-reading lessons helps empower people to learn skills to help overcome communication barriers. Mary will talk about her experience, explain the mechanics of lip reading and take us through a hands on exercise.
Zoe is a mumpreneur. She set up the first franchise of Mini First Aid nearly 3 years ago. The organisation provides training in infant and paediatric first aid to parents, grandparents and carers. There are now 14 franchises across the country and it continues to expand week by week. Mini First Aid was the winner of the Mumpreneur Awards 2015. As well as sharing her experience of setting up a new business, Zoe will also demonstrate techniques for dealing with choking incidents.
We have now set up a number of additional groups outside of our monthly meeting for Malago WI members and dates for the initial meetings have been arranged. If you would like to take part in these and haven’t signed up yet, please email wearemalagowi@gmail.com.
Sock Knitting
The first course of sock knitting with Judi Edwards is taking place over 4 sessions in June and is now full. There will be an update about the possibility of a further course if you missed out.
Cocktail Club
Following a great response from members to the Cocktail Club will launch on Thursday 9 June from 8pm. At this meeting we will have some celebratory drinks and plan how we want to go forward to suit people’s interest in different activities, possible themed visits and rough costs depending on numbers.
Craft Club
The initial meeting will be taking place on Thursday 19th May. It's a chance to hang out, chat and make stuff (with tea and cake of course!). You can bring whatever you're working on or just come and browse crafty books for inspiration! Further dates will be arranged shortly.
As part of the May meeting, we will be asking members to vote For or Against this year’s WI resolutions:
- Avoid food waste, address food poverty
- Appropriate care in hospitals for people with dementia
Further information is available in on the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) website. The outcome of our vote will be taken to the NFWI AGM in June.
To help with our fundraising, Malago WI will have a stall at this year’s North Street Summer Fair on Saturday 25th June. We had a very successful day last year and raised over £600. We still need volunteers to provide cakes and help out on the stall. Sign-up sheets will be circulated during the meeting. Any help you can provide, either baking a cake or staffing the stall for an hour or so, means we can make this year’s fair even more successful.
We look forward to seeing you at 8pm on Wednesday 25th
