Fulham WI

FWI Masquerade Ball: tickets now on sale!

The tickets for the annual Fulham WI have now gone on sale and are ready to be snapped up. This year – due to popular request - we have decided to hold the Ball in the summer on Saturday July 11 and at a new venue, the University Women’s Club in Mayfair. The Ball will act as our main fundraiser for the year and any profit will be split between our chosen charity Thrive project and running the Fulham WI – so we need to sell as many tickets as we can – 140 in total. All members, friend, family, work colleagues, etc are invited to attend. Please join with us and support this event and make it a huge success!

Tickets are available to purchase via cheque (made payable to Fulham WI) or cash from Joanna Hackett at Flat 3, 300 Fulham Road, London SW10 4PQ. Alternatively please email fulhamwi@gmail.com for further information. We have chosen not to use an onllne payment as they now charge £1.25 per ticket!!

Date: Saturday, July 11 2009

Venue: University Women’s Club, 2 Audley Square, Mayfair

Time: 7pm to 1am

Dress code: Black tie and masks!

There will be reception drinks, a 3-course meal with 1/2 bottle wine per person, disco, casino and a raffle.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Fulham WI Committee xx

Christmas Fair - Tuesday 2nd December 2008

Ladies,

You are all invited to 'A Christmas Cocktail' at the Banqueting House, Whitehall in aid of Save the Children.

This will take place on Tuesday 2nd December (just after our Christmas meeting!) from 1pm to 9pm.

Admission will cost £8 and include a glass of wine and canapes throughout.

  There will be stalls, tombola and a champagne bar - a perfect way to start the Christmas season with a spot of charity!

Everyone is welcome so please bring family and friends along.

FWI Committee x

Calendar Girls

'Calendar Girls' at the Richmond Theatre

Saturday 29th November 2008, 2.30pm. Tickets: £20.50.

As discussed at the September meeting we have reserved 15 tickets to see the theatre production of Calendar Girls at the Richmond Theatre. Blurb from the theatre website is below:

Lynda Bellingham, Patricia Hodge, Sian Phillips, Gaynor Faye, Brigit Forsyth, Julia Hills and Elaine C Smith star in Calendar Girls.

'We're going to need considerably bigger buns.'

At first glance it should look like your classic WI calendar. Jams, cakes, sewing, cakes and all that. Except for one tiny thing....the ladies are not naked, they're nude. A group of of extraordinary women, members of a very ordinary WI, persuade one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference.

Puzzling their husbands, mortifying their children and riding the wrath of the outraged WI, they achieve their goal of raiaing money for charity, but inadvertently spark a global phenomenon.

Adapted by Tim Firth from his smash-hot film of the same name, Calendar Girls is quirky, poignant and hilarious.

Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please email Niki if you are are interested. Cheques should be made payable to Fulham WI and send to 40a Broughton Road, Fulham, London SW6 2LA.

FWI Trip to the V&A

French Connection Friday Late: Close Up (Photography/Fashion/Photoshoots)

Friday 26th September, 6.30-10.30pm

FWI are planning a trip to see the above exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. 'Friday Lates' are free, contemporary, late night events. 'Close Up' features leading fashion photographers and stylists and explore the world of fashion photography. Watch live photo shoots, listen to leading image makers Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, Paolo Roversi and Tim Walker talk about their work. Street fashion blogger Facehunter will be scouting for the best personal style and agencies and fashion magazines will be checking out your photography portfolios.

If you are interested in going please contact Sarah Batho.

5th Birthday Party!

Celebrating Five Fabulous Years of Fulham Women's Institute!

This September Fulham WI reaches the grand old age of five years!

Since its inception our WI has, amongst other things, raised over £20,000 for local Fulham charities; reinstated many of the traditional yet long-lost highlights of the WI (jam making especially!) and has welcomed over 300 young women to our lively monthly meetings.

To celebrate our first milestone birthday, Fulham WI is holding a garden party on Sunday 21st September at Pryors Bank Cafe, Bishops Park, Fulham (for a location details click here) from 5.30-8.30pm. We are selling tickets to this event and would absolutely love all our friends, family and people who have supported us over the years to come along.

Tickets are priced at a very reasonable £10 for members and £20 for non-members and can be purchased from Joanna Hackett. The party will include a barbecue, drinks, garden games and maybe even some dancing...

It would be great to see as many people as possible, so please come along and raise a glass to Fulham WI and all we've achieved.

Thank You!

A big thank you to everyone who made the Parsons Green Fair such a success!

The stall selling homemade baked goods, preserves, craft items and WI made well over £800- with £400 donated to our nominated local charity, the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation- the remainder will help make our WI veen better!

Fair on Parson's Green, 5th July 2008

Parsons Green Fair, Saturday 5th July 2008, 12 noon - 5pm

The Fair on Parson's Green is now in it’s 16th year. Over 80 community, charity and craft stalls. Main Stage and Children’s Stage. Bouncy Castles, Punch and Judy, Carousels, Farmers Market, Venriloqist, Magician, Bands, Instant Circus, Fire Eater, Childrens Dancing Displays and numerous other activities all afternoon. Admission is Free.

Fulham WI are planning on having a stall at the fair selling a range of homemade cakes, confectionery and goods made by our members. Profits will go towards making Fulham WI even more fabulous- but also intend to make a donation to 'The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation'- the charity we supported at our Christmas Ball.

We hope that members will donate baked goods- but if any members have their own business and wish to sell some of their handmade items, a 'profit-sharing scheme' can also be negotiated. If you wish to donate or sell goods at the fair please contact a committee member. We are also looking for help in manning the stall- Please register your interest with a committee member.

All your help is appreciated!!!

London WIs Meeting, 22nd July 2008

London WIs Meeting, 6–8 p.m 22nd July 2008
Sainsburys HQ, 33 Holborn, London EC1M 2HT

Now that there are 17 WIs  in London, the NFWI thought it would be a great idea to organise a 'WI meeting with a difference' and give us the opportunity to meet each other over a glass of wine so that we can get to know one another, exchange ideas, network and see what the WI is all about.

WI City of London will be hosting this evening, in conjunction with the NFWI and are putting together a really exciting agenda for the evening, with interesting speakers.   

If you are interested in attending, please let Sarah know by 6th June at the latest. We hope FWI will have a good turn-out!

Fulham WI gets traditional: the popular jam-making days

There are still places available on the Jam Making Day on 21st June. (The 7th June is now full). They will take place at Holy Cross School in New Malden and usually go on from 10am until 2pm. Cost is £10 and maybe a little extra on the day...... full details to follow.

The are very popular so to book a place please contact Joanna. If you have reserved a place on either day but have yet to pay please bring payment to the next meeting or post to Joanna at 300 Fulham Road, London SW10 9EP.

BodyMentors Training Session- 20th April in Hyde Park

There are still places available at the BodyMentors training session in Hyde Park on 20th April. To book a place please email Joanna. The cost is £5. This is open to non-members, friends, boyfriends etc. Sarah Batho from the Committee will be co-ordinating the session and will send out an email to attendees beforehand.