Little Sutton Sapphires WI

Several of our members attended afternoon tea at the Woodcote House Hotel in Ellesmere Port on 28th April to celebrate the Queens Birthday. Dress code was royalty and Red, White and Blue. There was raffles and quizzes and everyone enjoyed themselves:                                          Our President and Treasurer                                           Diane and Clare from Events and Sally                                          More Sapphires Diane and Cathy and Amanda                                          More Sapphires     ...

Wednesday 13th April Little Sutton Sapphires had a Taster table meeting. This was to try to encourage members to join different events outside of the main meeting. Taster tables where: Gardening Media and Public Affairs Book Club Baking and Cooking Competitions Events Craft  Here is Diane with her Events table. Loads of Pamphlets and ideas about going to shows and to lunch clubs for members to get to know one another Sue with her Gardening table. One of the members has already said she will give her garden up for members to experiment on. Chris and Jackie taking names and selling raffle tickets Members of the Little Sutton Sapphires have an event they are going to on 28th April at the Woddcote House Hotel. Afternoon tea with quizzes as well. There is also talk about celebrating the Queens birthday at this, by members dressing up in Red White or Blue for the afternoon

Sapphires we not only got a mention in the Ellesmere Port Standard, we also where mention in the Cheshire Federation's Newsletter Francis Woollam the retiring chair of the Cheshire Federation, told Institutes in Cheshire, we where the 203rd WI Inside the newsletter we got a mention and also photograph of our President Adele Hewitt and WI Advisor Georgina Denny signing the Constitution Welcome to Little Sutton Sapphires who already have 65 members and are very keen to hone their skills in craft and baking. They are holding social media classes so that all members can access information re meetings via Facebook President Adele Hewitt, Treasurer Kerry Lee and Secretary Lynne Callister are an enthusiastic team and have welcomed the support of their advisor Georgina Denny

Several of our ladies went through to Chester on Thursday 17th March 2016 to our WI headquarters. We had a roam all over the house and also went into the Archive Room to try and find out info about the previous Little Sutton WI. We also had a much needed cup of coffee/tea and also took some photo's of a panel of Resolutions and their dates that was hanging in one of the rooms. Badges where purchased also and we had our photo taken outside the building. Another WI member from Tattenhall was in the building and she had her picture taken with us. Ladies from the Little Sutton Sapphires at WI house  in Whitefriars Chester Another WI member with us all outside Resolutions Panel

Some of the "Little Sutton Sapphires, will be going into Chester on Thursday, and will be calling into the Cheshire Federation House at Whitefriars. Watch this space for an update and pikkies! This building belongs to the members of the WI, and was paid for by members! Any time you are in Chester.....from Tues - Thurs and between 10.00am - 4.00pm, call in.

Recycling old clothes to enhance flowers in your garden this year..... Use an old Bra or a new Bra and fill to the brim with seeds or plugs. Then take a picture and send this to the NFI Unit...Good luck!

Last night, we had our "Grand opening meeting", with the lady mayoress of Ellesmere Port Lynn Clare attending and also the new Cheshire Federation Chairwoman, along with the South Wirral Group chairwoman and also our WI Advisor Georgina Denny. We had a motivational speaker, Kate Hutchinson, who gave us a most wonderful talk about Transgender issues and her thoughts and feelings on this, along with how her life has changed. Kate got a rounding applause and answered any questions that where put to her. A buffet was then enjoyed by members who had brought donations of food along for all to enjoy! One of our members Diane Brown made our marvellous cake from the evening, based on our leaflet for the evening taken from our theme "International Women's Day" Here are a few of the photo's from last night, that have been scrapped  Our President Adele and our Communications Chair Clare  Kerry our Treasurer and our Asst Secretary Vicky La...