Who We Are and What We Do
Ringway and Hale Barns WI was founded in 1957 and currently has around 40 members.
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Our meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of the month at All Saints Church hall, Hale Road, Hale Barns, WA15 8SP, starting at 7.30 pm, parking is available and there is disabled access to the hall. As you will see on other pages of this website, we try to have fun and do as many different things as we can to entertain all of our members.
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The 'Meetings ' page on our website shows the variety of speakers that we have enjoyed this year. Meetings finish with tea and coffee, often with tasty homemade cakes. Members can browse the bookstall that supports the allotment project and sign up for events being held in the future. Most months members are invited to submit an entry for the competition.
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As well as day trips there is an annual short break organised further afield.
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Ringway and Hale Barns WI has a number of groups offering a range of different interests and skills. Members may join as many as they wish.
Visitors and new members are very welcome to come along and details of how to get in touch with us are shown at the bottom of the webpages. The map showing where we meet is below .
We are a friendly bunch so don’t worry, you will be welcomed by all!
Scrapbook from 1965
NEWSLETTER
We’ve had a couple of unusual meetings over the last two months.
March saw us changing location to Holy Angels church hall due to the fact that All Saints church hall was closed for Holy Week. We had an interesting talk about astrology with an unintentional light (or maybe that should be a dark show) when the lights in the hall turned themselves off!
Then in April we enjoyed looking at unusual items and trying to identify them. Well done to the winning team!
This month will be our Fashion Show and if any of your friends or relatives would like to join us, the tickets (just for them) will be £3. Members will not be charged. We will have cakes and also a raffle on the night and we are hoping to have a good turn out. Depending on how many tickets are sold we will decide whether to have the Sales Table and the Book Table. The meeting business will be fairly short.
If any of our new members (or existing ones) would be interested in helping at the allotment now that the weather is improving, we would be very grateful. Jenny and Janet are hoping to plant potatoes, new strawberry plants and green beans in the next week or so and other seeds are being grown at the moment ready to go in when they are big enough. Joan has made a scarecrow for the plot, which looks good (although it is hoped the birds won’t like it!!). We still have the metal table and chairs to paint and the shed needs a good sorting out after our resident mouse decided to chew up paper and plastic and spread it around!
Jane continues to run trips to various places of interest using coach companies and these have proved to be very successful. She is currently looking at trips for later in the year and will advertise them at future meetings.
Our annual holiday, this year booked by Jenny Flisk, will soon be here. We will be Norfolk, visiting Sandringham and a number of other interesting and beautiful places. So hopefully the weather will be kind to us.