Charity Tea a great success

The Bee & Tea Charity Tea last Saturday went really well, we managed to raise £500 for the Refugee Women's Association

based in Dalston Hackney and had 40 guests for tea. Cath & John played beautiful live piano and violin which wafted out the windows onto the patio where people sat in the sun drinking their tea and eating delicious cakes and sandwiches prepared by the stokey WI volunteers.

A Fab occassion and thanks to all who helped, and made it as I know how busy Londoners are and how many different events there were going on that Saturday including the Stokey Literary festival.

Thank you to the Stokey WI ladies who cooked such delicious cakes including chocolate and guiness cake, ginger cupcakes, coffee cakes, marmalade cake, teacake and helped out with serving teas on the day Bridget :)

Look forward to another successful Charity Tea in aid of the refugee women's Association ">http://www.refugeewomen.org.uk/

Join us for an evening of wine tasting downstairs at HOMA - 9th June

Aromas....the bouquet, fancy yourself as a modern day Jilly Goolden? This month's meeting opens it's doors to an in-house sommelier at HOMA's Sotto Bar on Church Street where you can sample a variety of wines to test them for their 'in mouth sensations'!

Bee & Tea at Made in Clerkenwell Open Studio Event

Bee & Tea at Made in Clerkenwell Open Studio Event

RWA Chairty Tea

Thanks to all who came to the WI Meeting on 12 May was very positive and interesting:




We heard Jasmina and from the refugee Women's Association, local Charity in Hackney see below for more information, talk a bit about their experience of helping refugee Women as a first point of contact with many of the issues they face ranging from prostitution, retraining as doctors in the UK and improving their English.



ESOL classes and help with translation and learning English help remove barriers from all sorts of potential improvements in their quality of life here, from communication, to being signposted to the right help and advocacy regarding their entitlements, retraining in the professions they qualified in in their countries they have had to leave etc.



Setareh Roohi talked a bit about how being a member of the RWA's book club for Refugee women doctors had helped increase her confidence in English to retake the English exams necessary to re qualify as a doctor in in the UK.



Jasmina Dimitrijevic

Project Manager



Refugee Women's Association

The Print House

18 Ashwin Street

London E8 3DL






Website: www.refugeewomen.org.uk



Also many thanks for those of you at the meeting who gave me your names and contact nos to make cakes and help out on the day at the Chairty Tea on 7th June



I will be in touch shortly



Best wishes



Bridget

President

Stokey WI 

12th May – Stokey WI – Join us for a talk by the Refugee Women's Association + AGM

At HOMA 71-73 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0AS

Come and join us for a talk with the Refugee Women’s Association in the lead up to our charity bake sale on 7th June in aid of the charity. If you would like to bring cakes and biscuits for the charity sale in aid of the Refuge Women’s Association on the 12th they would be very welcome!

Click here to attend the event.

The Charity Tea on Sat 7th June 2014 will be held at Community Cafe, St Peter’s De Beauvoir, Northchurch Terrace, London, N1 4DA

The event on 7th June is £10 per ticket includes full tea, homemade cakes by local WI ladies, sandwiches accompanied by live musicians songs and piano with Bee & Tea goodies and homeware for sale.

Come and have a fabulous relaxing tea and donate to a good cause for only £10 per ticket.

Stokey WI on the airwaves

Stoke Newington President, Bridget Chetwynd and Secretary Gemma O'Brien talk to The Shoreditch Sisters on their Longwave Ladies radio show

The lovely ladies at The Shoreditch Sisters WI invited Stokey WI President Bridget Chetwynd and Secretary Gemma O'Brien to talk about the Stoke Newington WI on their monthly radio show hosted by hoxtonradio.com.

As part of an hour long show, featuring The Shoreditch Sisters' recent choir meeting, member spotlight and agony aunt Mamma Mia, Bridget and Gemma waxed lyrical over some tea and biscuits about why they stepped up to their roles at the Stoke Newington WI, what the WI means to them and some information about events that will be happening in the future.

Fancy a listen? Tune in at 43:33 for the interview segment:

Longwave Ladies Show TEN by Longwaveladies on Mixcloud

Stoke Newington WI celebrate International Women's Day

Photos of the banner created by Stoke Newington WI to celebrate International Women's Day

The Stoke Newington WI had a great evening on 3rd March where they got crafty creating a banner to celebrate International Women's Day. You can see the results below - the banner now hanging in Albion Parade. If you're passing by, make sure to take a look.

Treasurer Anna Kidd (left) and President Bridget Chetwynd (right) standing in front of the banner on Albion Parade.

14 April Stokey WI Meeting - Local author Debora Robertson

Local author, Debora Robertson, will talk to us about her book Gifts from the Garden: 100 homegrown presents. 

It contains a range of fabulous and varied ideas from pesto to soap, from bouquet garni to dog biscuits. As well as writing this beautiful book full of amazing things to make, Debora is an accomplished cook and has worked with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall at the River Cottage.

Entry fee for non-members is £5. If you are not yet a member and wish to join us, we will deduct the entry fee from your membership should you wish to join.

3rd March meeting

Join us in creating a banner to decorate Albion Green for International Women's Day.

Every year, the world celebrates International Women's Day on March 8th. In anticipation of this day, we will be making a banner on 3rd March which will be used to decorate the green of Albion Parade. It's a time to get creative and to also celebrate the social, political and economic achievements of women whilst thinking about what more there is left to do.

We hope you will join us in creating a banner that will be seen by people in the local area. 

 

Entry fee for non-members is £5. If you are not yet a member and wish to join us, we will deduct the entry fee from your membership should you wish to join.

What's coming up in 2014

We thought since the rainclouds and winds persist in trying to keep us indoors, that we would let you know what's in store for our future events at the Stoke Newington WI and give ourselves something to look forward to!

All events are subject to change but reflect the current plans. Remember if you are not yet a member but would like to find out what being a member of the WI is like, feel free to join any of our events below. Events are £5 for non-members, which can be taken off the membership fee if you join before the end of March 2014.

• April 14th - Local cookbook author, Debora Robertson who has worked on River Cottage to talk about her passion for cooking. Event booking page here.

• May 12th - Bring and Buy cake sale in aid of Refuge Women's Association.   

  June 9th - Drawing from still life with Stoke Newington WI President Bridget Chetwynd  

  July - Wine/cocktail tasting with a sommelier.   

  August - Hackney artist talks about her recreation of the Cornershop in felt. Marvel at the recreation of a soft-knitted newsagents in Hackney.  

  September - Artist workshop  

  October - Breast Cancer awareness  

  November - All about chocolate ...

December - Christmas party

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Past events:

• February 10th - The Invisible Life of a Puppeteer by Susan Beattie. 
• March 3rd - Craft night to create a banner to decorate Albion Green for International Women's Day