PROGRAMME

Upcoming programme and meeting dates 2021

:: Wednesday 26 May
Tour of Bristol Underfall Yard

 :: Wednesday 30 June
Visit to Riverside Garden Centre

 :: Wednesday 28 July
 Macramé Workshop, Farahway Cafe 

 :: Wednesday 25 August
Show of Strength Theatre Company walking tour

:: Wednesday 29 September
TBC

 :: Wednesday 27 October
TBC

 :: Wednesday 24 November
TBC

Please note that we plan our programme some way in advance and it is subject to change.

Archive programme

2020

:: Wednesday 29 January
Dogs for Good, Rosie Blanning
 :: Wednesday 26 February
Colourful Minds

2019

:: Wednesday 30 January 

Reiki and Ear Reflexology, Shelley Jones

 :: Wednesday 27 February
Millinery, Annie Stafford-Townsend

 :: Wednesday 27 March
Debbie Keeling, Bath Harvest including tasting

 :: Wednesday 24 April
 Sarah Alder, Kitchen Titbits

:: Wednesday 29 May
Trish Johnson, Clifton Suspension Bridge and Women in Engineering

 :: Wednesday 26 June
Jayne Goulding Design - Embroidery Studio for the fashion and interior industries

 :: Wednesday 31 July
Summer outing, Somerset Flower Farm

:: Wednesday 28 August
 August outing, TBC

 :: Wednesday 25 September
Ashley Russell, Arm Chair Yoga

:: Wednesday 23 October
11th Birthday Party and AGM - Yukiko Hosomi, origami decorations

:: Wednesday 27 November
 Bristol Rocks, Rachel Heaton 

2018

 

:: Wednesday 31 January
Adventures in Science, Bill Bailey

 :: Wednesday 28 February
Sugar Crafting with Sue Duggan

:: Wednesday 28 March
Bumble Bee Conservation Trust

 :: Wednesday 25 April
Tea tasting with Bluebird Tea

:: Wednesday 30 May
Clare Callaghan on Physiotherapy

 :: Wednesday 27 June
Clare Osborn, Incredible Oceans

 :: Wednesday 25 July
Spicery tour and tasting

:: Wednesday 29 August
Weird Bristol Walk

 :: Wednesday 26 September
FloJo, hand sewing project

:: Wednesday 24 October
10th Birthday Party with Glastonbury Ferments

:: Wednesday 29 November
Marbling with Colourful Minds

2017

:: Wednesday 25 January
Button jewellery making, Penny Smith
:: Wednesday 22 February
Colour Analysis, Karen Lowe
:: Wednesday 29 March
Edible Garden, Niels Corfield
 :: Wednesday 26 April
Needle Felting, Juilette Fleming
:: Wednesday 31 May
Cat Taylor, Nudge Fit and Helen Mackie from the charity Jessie May
 :: Wednesday 28 June
Modern Hand Reading, Lawrence Rook
 :: Wednesday 26 July
Summer outing - Tour and Tacos, Clifton Suspension Bridge and Camera Obscura
:: Wednesday 30 August
Bristol walk with Tim Mowl
 :: Wednesday 27 September
Ruth McCallister, "How to travel the world with a family without trying to kill each other"
:: Wednesday 25 October
9th Birthday Party, Latin American dancing and AGM 
:: Wednesday 29 November
Wreath Making, Ivory Flowers

2016

:: Wednesday 28 January
Herbal medicine, Urban Fringe Dispensary
:: Wednesday 24 February
Zara's Chocolates, chocolate workshop and tasting
:: Wednesday 30 March
Sara Douglas, Wildlife Film Researcher for BBC Natural History Unit including recent productions of Big Blue Live and Japan
 :: Wednesday 27 April
Kirsten Make & Do – bunting making workshop
:: Wednesday 25 May
Lip Reading with Mary Hall

Children's First Aid with Zoe Hunt from Mini First Aid
:: Wednesday 29 June

Tim Mowl, Author and Emeritus Professor of History of Architecture and Designed Landscapes at the University of Bristol
:: Wednesday 27 July
Summer outing - an evening at Windmill Hill City Farm
:: Wednesday 31 August
Guided walk with Tim Mowl ending in a visit to historic Bristol pub
:: Wednesday 28 September
Up-cycling with Annie Sloane Paints
:: Wednesday 26 October
8th Birthday Party, AGM and Light Box workshop
:: Wednesday 30 November
Lino cutting workshop with a Christmas theme

2014

:: Wednesday 29 January
Tea tasting with Attic Tea
:: Wednesday 26 February
Image consultant, Karen Lowe
:: Wednesday 26 March
TBC
:: Wednesday 30 April
TBC
:: Wednesday 28 May
Dress a Girl Around the World with Paper Village
:: Wednesday 25 June
Breast cancer awareness and Perfect Fit 
:: Wednesday 30 July
Summer outing
:: Wednesday 27 August
TBC
:: Wednesday 24 September
Foraging
:: Wednesday 29 October
6th Birthday Party and AGM
:: Wednesday 26 November
Perfect gift wrapping

2013

:: Wednesday 30 January 2013

Thrifty Style: Clever ways to revamp your wardrobe with Janine Chisholm

:: Wednesday 27 February

Colour with Farrow & Ball

:: Wednesday 27 March

Storytelling with Martin Maudsley

:: Wednesday 24 April

an insight in to the role of a magistrate from local JP Bob Bennett

:: Wednesday 29 May

Sugar craft

:: Wednesday 26 June

Introduction to Life Drawing with Deb Pearson

:: Wednesday 31 July

How to create an eye catching stall at a fayre

:: Wednesday 28 August

Bracey interiors

:: Wednesday 25 September

Foraging with Shannon Smith

:: Wednesday 30 October

5th Birthday Party and AGM

:: Wednesday 27 November

Christmas flower arranging

2012

:: Wednesday 25 January

Happiness

:: Wednesday 29 February

Paper flowers and fabric birds

:: Wednesday 28 March

Blogging and campaign resolution

:: Wednesday 25 April

A New Taste of Spring with Shannon Smith

:: Wednesday 30 May

Gardening with Lia Leendertz

:: Wednesday 27 June

Health TBC

:: Wednesday 25 July

TBC

:: Wednesday 29 August

Make do and mend

:: Wednesday 26 September

Seasonal produce
:: Wednesday 31 October
Birthday party and wine-tasting
:: Wednesday 28 November
Christmas chocolate making

 

2011

:: Wednesday 30 November

Ways with wool: Pompoms

:: Wednesday 26 October

Malago WI 3rd Birthday party - swish and sweets

:: Wednesday 28 September

Salsa

:: Wednesday 31 August

Sleep!

:: Wednesday 27 July

Malago WI village fete - jam, vegetables, bunting, cakes

:: Wednesday 29 June

Mystery meeting

:: Wednesday 25 May

All-female DIY with Jo Behari, Home Jane

:: Wednesday 27 April

Learn to Speak with Selina Keedwell, Intercre8, WI resolutions vote

:: Wednesday 30 March

Aromatherapy - mixing our own home and beauty products with Ali Cook, Pure Bliss Aromatherapy

:: Wednesday 23 February

Bag-making and book/present swap

:: Wednesday 26 January

Story-telling

2010

:: 24 November 2010

Present-wrapping and wreath-making

:: 27 October 2010

Pudding club - our second birthday party 

:: 29 September 2010

Ways with wool - crochet and felts

:: 25 September 2010

Best of Bedminster show (fundraising event)

:: 15 September 2010

Social event

:: 25 August 2010

Quiz night

:: 28 July 2010

Nick Hand talks about his travels around the UK meeting artisan craftspeople

:: 30 June 2010

Bollywood night (rescheduled from January 2010)

:: 26 May 2010

Jane Brocket

:: 28 April 2010

Tea- and chocolate-tasting with Lahloo teas (Brunel group meeting)

:: 31 March 2010

Self-portraiture

:: 24 February 2010

Morph-making with Aardman

:: 27 January 2010

Badge-making and new year resolutions

2009

:: 25 November 2009

Creative writing

:: 28 October 2009

Malago WI First Birthday party (change of venue: Southville Centre)

:: 30 September 2009

Ways with Wool

:: Best of Bedminster show, Saturday 26 September 2009

:: 26 August 2009

Swishing!

:: 29 July 2009

Pilates with Anna Christy, and Chris Uttley from BERATE

:: 24 June 2009

Flower-arranging, Claire from Les Fleurs

:: 27 May 2009

Save the Honey Bees campaign vote and history of WI campaigning talk

:: 29 April 2009 Spring clean your life:

Kath Kelly (author of How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day) and Dave Hamilton (of www.selfsufficientish.com, the urban guide to almost self-sufficiency)

:: 25 March 2009

Voice workshop, Selina Keedwell, Intercre8

:: 25 February 2009

Women's oral history, Steve Humphries, Testimony Films

:: 28 January 2009

Indian Head Massage, Alison Cook, Pure Bliss Aromatherapy 0117 9831284

:: 10 December 2008

Paper Christmas decorations, Alice, Lottie and Carrie

:: 12 November 2008

Inaugural meeting - History of the WI, programming ideas, tea & cake