GEDLING WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
A very warm welcome to the Gedling Women’s Institute’s website.
We hope the website will inform and involve all our members and visitors.
Gedling WI is a charity and we aim to improve women’s lives in our community and benefit life in the Gedling area. It is a chance for women to:
- make new friends;
- take part in a wide range of opportunities including at least 11 monthly meetings a year, a varied and interesting programme with speakers and demonstrations, fundraising, social events, meals out, outings and activities;
- widen their horizons by taking advantage of educational opportunities;
- find and learn new interests and develop these;
- build on their existing crafts and skills - and
We meet at Gedling Road Methodist Church on Gedling Road, Carlton Nottingham NG4 3EX at 7:00pm on the 1st Tuesday of the month. The Church is at the junction of Burton Road and Main Road, also known as Parks Corner. For further details of where we meet, please see our FIND US page
COFFEE & CRAFT GROUP
Our Craft & Coffee Group is a get together for people interested in knitting, crochet, cross stitch and other similar crafts. You can also come along if you just fancy a chat.
We are an informal and friendly group who meet in the Wesley Room of Gedling Road Methodist Church on Gedling Road, Carlton Nottingham NG4 3EX on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 10.30am for a couple of hours with like-minded people. If you like to meet people then this is the group for you. The cost is £2.50 per session to cover the cost of room hire. This includes a cup of tea/coffee.
Members bring along any small portable project of their own to work on during meetings.
We also knit things for Charity. These include blankets, hats, scarves, mittens/gloves for charities locally or to be sent overseas.
In September 2022 we donated:
- 31 jackets, 22 blankets and 32 hats (including 24 ventilator hats) to the Neo-Natal Unit at Nottingham City Hospital; and
- 33 hats, 19 scarves and 10 pairs of mittens/gloves to Teams4U to be given to a vulnerable child and family distributed through schools, nurseries, hospitals & orphanages in Eastern Europe.
All skill levels welcome, including beginners.
Donations of knitting wool to support us with our charitable knitting are always welcome.
Donations of knitting wool to support us with our charitable knitting are always welcome.
FUNDRAISING/CHARITY
Gedling WI hosts various fundraising events. This includes coffee mornings and a cake/preserve/craft stall when Gedling Gala takes place.
Gedling WI hosts various fundraising events. This includes coffee mornings and a cake/preserve/craft stall when Gedling Gala takes place.
In 2016 the ladies of Gedling WI decided to adopt a Charity. Since then we have raised:
The ladies of Gedling WI's current chosen Charities are 'Juno Women's Refuge' and 'Nottingham Street Pastors' and £760.00 has been collected to date.
- £700 for Breast Cancer Care;
- £1,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust at Nottingham City Hospital;
- £1,006 for Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance and;
- £1,000 for Nottingham Hospitals Charity the Big Appeal including iMRI machine Appeal for use by paediatric neurosurgeons.
The ladies of Gedling WI's current chosen Charities are 'Juno Women's Refuge' and 'Nottingham Street Pastors' and £760.00 has been collected to date.
The ladies of Gedling WI also support the annual Poppy Appeal and each Remembrance Sunday we lay a wreath at the Gedling war memorial.
The ladies of Gedling WI also support our local food-bank by donating foodstuffs and each year they fill shoeboxes with Christmas gifts for Teams4U to be given to a vulnerable
child and family distributed through schools, nurseries, hospitals & orphanages in Eastern Europe.
We also collect plastic bottle tops for recycling and postage stamps for 'Myotonic Dystrophy'.
child and family distributed through schools, nurseries, hospitals & orphanages in Eastern Europe.
We also collect plastic bottle tops for recycling and postage stamps for 'Myotonic Dystrophy'.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
In addition there are a variety of opportunities for members, organised by both the Nottinghamshire Federation and National.
In addition there are a variety of opportunities for members, organised by both the Nottinghamshire Federation and National.
A FEW FACTS ABOUT GEDLING WI:
- Gedling Women's Institute was founded in 1933;
- Membership has grown steadily to around 60 members;
- Gedling W.I is part of Nottinghamshire Federation of Women’s Institutes and the National Federations of Women’s Institutes, which is the largest women's organization in the UK. Both can be contacted for more information about the Women’s Institute at www.thewi.org.uk
Banner made by Plains Group Members to depict each W.I in the Group. Gedling W.I shown top left.
Why not come along and join us? You will be very welcome.
The current programme of events is shown on our GEDLING WI EVENTS page. Don’t forget to check out this page and see what we are up to
The current programme of events is shown on our GEDLING WI EVENTS page. Don’t forget to check out this page and see what we are up to
Registered Charity No: 1023115
