Review November – Wreaths - Christmas Wreath making This fun session was free for members and £28 for visitors (women aged 18+). The price included everything needed to make and take home a beautiful, traditional Christmas wreath. Spaces were limited and needed to be booked in advance. Everything was included... Continue Reading →
Review September – Sound Bath - Sound Bath Evening with Rounik What a wonderful chance to slow down, unwind, and recharge that we had at our Sound Bath session. It was just what we needed. Through the soothing power of sacred sound frequencies, guided meditation, and gentle... Continue Reading →
Review August – Garden Walk - What a lovely garden walk we went on in the heart of St Werburghs. Was had strong turn out and Garden Folk CIC treated us to a lovely evening walking around their regenerative market garden where they produce mixed salad... Continue Reading →
Review June – Story Walk in Clifton - We were invited to step into a world of Rubies and Remembrance with the brilliant storyteller, Clare Reddaway from A Word in your Ear, as she brought Clifton’s streets to life with tales that shimmer with history and heart. We headed off-site for this walking... Continue Reading →
Review May – The Benefits of Massage - It was Mental Health Awareness Month We enjoyed a calming and informative session with Bridget Tyrell from Osna Therapy, a fellow businesswoman right here on Gloucester Road. She shared the many benefits of massage and showed us some easy self-massage... Continue Reading →
Review April – Bristol Art Junkie - We were treated to a collage workshop with Bristol’s very own art junkie, Adele Lippiatt — the queen of collage and recycled materials. Adele guided us through a hands-on journey of cutting, layering, and creating art.We were a good mix of... Continue Reading →
Review March – Bristol Rum Company - We had a great evening with the Bristol Rum Company. The founders, all from Bristol, shared how the city’s spirit of freedom and creativity is reflected in both their business principles and the rum they’ve chosen. They also talked about... Continue Reading →
Review February – Wildlife Photographer - From the jungles of India to the mountains of British Columbia and the cliffs of Pembrokeshire to the urban streets of Bristol, his home city, Toby Packard is a wildlife photographer and filmmaker who has spent the past 13 years... Continue Reading →
Review December – Festive Gathering - For December, in place of our usual meeting, we booked a table at a local restaurant. This was member only event. For those members who wanted to join us for a festive meal a non-refundable cash deposit of £10 was required to secure your place.... Continue Reading →- Review November – Wreath Making - The Wreath making workshop was. on Tuesday 26th November as advertised on the website which was not the third Tuesday this month! In our November meeting we made Christmas wreaths. This highly popular event sold out. Wreath making spaces needed to be rebooked... Continue Reading →
Review October – AGM & Sewing Workshop - Our well attended Annual General Meeting took place at our October meeting. Using our Annual Report and Financial Statement, members and guests were updated on our performance and finances. After our business had concluded Tweed and Bird helped us... Continue Reading →
Review September – Line Dancing - Septembers meeting was an energetic evening of line dancing with Ashley Syms-Rees. A partner is not needed for line dancing and it is what you make it – as energetic or low impact as you want. We had a lot of... Continue Reading →
Review August – River Walk - This month’s meeting was a delightful walk and talk along the river Frome with Amy Wade, Education and Engagement Officer for the Bristol Avon River Trust, where we learned about river life. We met at Snuffmills carpark at the earlier time of... Continue Reading →
Review July – Treasure Hunt - We met at Castle Park 7.15pm. July’s meeting was an Alice in Wonderland themed treasure hunt using the Cluedupp Games app. Participants needed to download the app from http://www.clueddupp.com and set up an account before the meeting. We met at 7.15pm... Continue Reading →
Review – Death and Dying - How to talk about death and dying, and why women are reclaiming the conversation This fascinating and informative talk by Delia Ryding from Divine Ceremony, charted Queen Victoria’s creation of the high street Funeral Parlour, and the rise of the men in... Continue Reading →
Review May – Mental Health Awareness - Mental Health Awareness Week ran from 13 to 19 May 2024.Every year 1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem (MIND). We all know how it feels to be stressed or anxious, but what’s happening in our... Continue Reading →
Review April – Tai Chi - We indulged in some self care under the guidance of Rob Mackay. To aid our appreciation ancient martial art Rob provided an inspiring over view of the history of Tai Chi and why he has so passionately practiced it for... Continue Reading →
Review March – The Victorian Surgeon - This March, we immersed ourselves in a captivating talk by our guest speaker, Geoff King as he vividly brought to life the stark realities of Victorian-era surgeries, in all its gory glory ! As promised this was an entertaining and informative evening. Doors... Continue Reading →
Review February – Quiz Night - In February our meeting was a Quiz with a difference. Karina, one of our members will organised the quiz and there were some great prizes too. This quiz with a difference was really fun night … no boring sports round,... Continue Reading →
Review January – Swishing and Sustainable Fashion - In January we started the year in style with a clothes swap – clearing out the old and heralding in the new. Attendees brought along unwanted Christmas gifts and clothes or accessories they no longer wear, to our clothes swap... Continue Reading →
Review December – Our Christmas Get Together - In December, we booked a table at the Royal Oak for those members who wanted gather for a Christmas meal. The cost was £19.50 for 2 courses and £22.50 for 3 courses. A £10 deposit was needed to secure a... Continue Reading →- Review November – Christmas Wreath Making - In November, we prepared for Christmas with a wreath-making workshop. Our committee organised and ran it using locally sourced and mainly compostable materials. The wreaths were on a moss base, allowing them to last throughout the festive season. We encouraged... Continue Reading →
19th September: Salsa Stories & Tequila Tasters - Salsa Stories- July & August : Shiatsu & Secret Pathways - Shiatsu
June Review : Haunted & Hidden Bristol - Haunted Bristol
May Review: We Danced like No One’s Watching - Mum Dance
March Review : Preventing Plastic Pollution & Guerilla Gardening - Plastic Pollution
18 April : Wine Tasting with Clifton Wines - Plastic Pollution
February Review : The Road to The Antiques Roadshow - Antiques Roadshow
Review January : Swishing! - Start the New Year with a Swish!
6 December : Our Christmas Party! - Christmas Party!
Review November: Styling with Elise! - Styling session with Elise!
Review October : AGM and Pumpkin Carving! - AGM and Pumpkin carving!
Review Sept : All Things Apple! - All Things Apple!
Review August : Summer Social - Summer social
Review July : Graffiti Workshop - Graffiti Workshop
Review June : Craftivism - Craftivism
Review May : Lawn Bowls and our 10th Birthday! - Lawn Bowls and 10th Birthday!
Review October: AGM and the Amazing World of Fungi - AGM and the Amazing World of Fungi
Review September: Meet The Mafias - Meet The Mafias
Review August: The Go-Gets - The Go-Gets dance troupe
Review July: North & East Bristol Business Support - North & East Bristol Business Support
Review June: Physical Health & Wellbeing for Women - Physical Health and Wellbeing for Women
Review May: Sign Language Lesson with Daisy and Heather - Sign Language Lesson with Daisy and Heather
Review Apr: Pete Insole of Know Your Place Bristol - Pete Insole of Know Your Place Bristol, spoke about the Bristol City Council interactive history map, which has been expanding for the last ten years. 
Review Mar: International Women’s Day and Womankind - International Women's Day and Womankind 
Review Feb: Explorers Connect - Belinda Kirk from Explorers Connect joined us at our meeting to talk about skippering the first women to Row Around The UK. 
Review Dec: Christmas Quiz - Our Christmas Quiz included rounds on films, cocktails and general Christmas knowledge.
Review Jan: Aromatherapy - Aromatherapy for Winter Wellbeing with Anne Polet of AromaWizards – @AromaWizardsnorthdevon on Facebook
Review Nov: Book folding - Kate from May The Folds Be With You gave us a demo of Book Folding. Book Folding turns pre-loved books into art by cutting or folding individual pages.
Review Oct: A virtual guided tour to Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California! - We joined Erin Gates from California State Parks PORTS for a stroll through Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
Review Sep: Periods, Pelvic Floor and Peri-menopause - Vicki aims to inform us on how she uses fitness and nutrition to help at all stages of women's health, the importance of our pelvic floor and allow us to talk openly about a subject that can still be a bit of a taboo – menopause.- 20 Oct: A virtual guided tour to Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California! - Join Erin Gates from California State Parks PORTS for a stroll through Humboldt Redwoods State Park!
- 15 Sep: Periods, Pelvic Floor and Peri-menopuase - We welcome back our popular previous speaker Vicki Hill to talk about women's health.
Review Aug: Live drawing workshop - Zoe kindly sent through the following worksheets based on the meeting. Zoe Murphy Drawing Workshop (.pdf) 
Review July: Antiques - Lisa kindly talked us through lots of interesting member’s antiques. 
Review June: Bingo - Legs eleven it was bingo night!
Review May: Sarah Outen - We had an enthralling talk from Sarah Outen. If you would like to watch the film about her amazing adventure you can do so via her website and it can be rented on Vimeo: sarahoutenhome.com/film-screening.
Review April: Online Houseplant Surgegy - Our first zoom meeting and we welcomed Sharon from Fancy Plants for an online plant surgery.- Review March: Cancelled - Unfortunately, our March 2020 meeting was cancelled due to the Coronavirus crisis.
Review February: Poetry Workshop - We had a fantastic evening writing our Glos Rd WI poem.
Review January: Money for Good Workshop with Friends of the Earth - We welcomed new members and renewals and also had an informative and fun session from Friends of the Earth participating in their Money for Good Workshop. For anyone who attended the session and is looking for further information then Friends... Continue Reading →
Review December: Christmas Party! - Another fantastic end to the year with our bring a dish party. We were all too busy eating (a lot of cheese) to take any photos but a fun time had by everyone 🙂
Review November: Professor Ronald Hutton on Village Magic and Witchcraft - A fascinating talk from Professor Ronald Hutton on Village Magic and Witchcraft.
Review October: AGM and butchery with Dave Giles Butchers - We welcomed in the new committee, reviewed the past year and had a demonstration from our local butcher Amy from Dave Giles Butchers. 
Review September: Bangra Drumming Workshop - Not just Bangra drumming! Singing, dancing AND drumming! A fantastic meeting! (Video available for members in the Gloucester Rd WI Community Facebook Group) - Review August: Macramé -
- Review July: Car Maintenance - Car maintenance at PC Motors.
- Review June: Cheese Quiz - A night spent eating cheese, with cheesy jokes and the cheese quiz.
- Review May: Unseen UK - We had an informative talk from Unseen UK. Find out more here: https://www.unseenuk.org
Review April: Embroidery with Jemima Lumley - We welcomed back former member and local jewellery designer, Jemima Lumley, who’ll showed us how to create a beautiful embroidered appliqué piece that could be framed.
Review Mar: Music Therapy - We welcomed music therapists, Music for Wellbeing along to the meeting to give us some information on how music therapy works and we were able to get involved in the practice through singing, music making and using out bodies as... Continue Reading →
Review Feb: Regifting auction and Swishing - Another brilliant regifting auction last month where we raised a brilliant £197!- Review Jan: Sign ups and inspirational talk - We had an amazing talk from Rachel Lundy about her epic adventure cycling across America.
Review December: Xmas bring a dish party! - Thanks to everyone who came along to the Xmas bring a dish party. Such wonderful food from our talented members, and a great night had by all – especially handbag bingo! Thanks to our wonderful president, Alison Bingham for another... Continue Reading →
Review November: Christmas Patchwork Baubles - 
Review October: AGM & LinkAge - Last month we heard for LinkAge, this year’s charity all about the great work they have been doing with the over 55s in our area, and how our fundraising will help. We also summed up the year in pictures, went over... Continue Reading →- Review September: 100 Women Workshop & Make/Bake/Grow Off -
Review August: Organ Donation Nurses and Blood Bikers - We were really pleased to welcome two lots of speakers to our August meeting. First we heard from Specialist Nurses in Organ Donation, Sylvia Crump, Izzy Derrick and Rachel Stone. I think we all knew that transplantation of an organ or... Continue Reading →
Review July: Bowling and Pimms - July was something a bit different – an open meeting where we also welcomed male visitors to enjoy our summer party. The Pimms was poured and the men from the bowling club got us practicing our bowling technique before incentivising... Continue Reading →
Review June: Beer Tasting with Wiper & True - At June’s meeting our speaker was Vicky Helsby from Bristol brewers Wiper & True. Drawn to work at Wiper & True by their simple and elegant branding Vicky has been part of the team for the last 3 years and... Continue Reading →- Review May: Suffolk Puffs - Some photos from May’s meeting where we crafted Suffolk Puffs, or Yo-Yos as they are also known.
- Review April: Store Cupboard Spa Night - A fun-filled evening mixing, mashing and whisking up some beauty products from everyday ingredients. There were fruit bowl facials, lemon juice nail brighteners and egg yolk and banana moisturisers to name just a few. We also had a demonstration on... Continue Reading →
- Review March: Celebrating International Women’s Day with Bethan Evans & Jane Duffus - We were very pleased to welcome two speakers to our March meeting. First up was Bethan Evans who came to Bristol to study law and stayed in the area and built up 35 years of experience, specialising in local government. Bethan’s... Continue Reading →
- Review February: Social & Re-Gifting Auction - A lovely evening all round. We shared in savoury treats, socialised, and raised over £120 pounds from the re-gifting auction which has got our fundraising for LinkAge Bristol well underway. Here are a selection of photos.
Review January: Membership & parkrun - We started the year by taking new memberships and membership renewals. After that flurry of activity we had the notices and vote on this year’s resolutions. Of the five choices, Stop FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) got the most votes and... Continue Reading →- Review December: Christmas Party - A flavour of the 2017 Christmas Party
- Review November: Author Kerry Postle - Our speaker, local writer Kerry Postle is a previous member of our WI so was doubly welcome. Kerry has successfully published her first novel and used her experience in researching, writing and finding a publisher to illustrate her presentation. Kerry gave us the fascinating story of her choice of subject matter, Wally Neuzil, and what inspired her to start her book. This was the result of two incidents, firstly, she was attacked by a teenage student in her classroom when she taught modern languages in a secondary school. This was distressing and caused Kerry to question her life.
- Review September: Gin Tasting -
- Review August: Bake-off and grow-off - Our annual bake-off and grow-off went down a storm with some fab cakes and growing creations on display. Well done all rosette winners!
- Review July: Summer Festival - Here's what we got up to.
- Review June: Nordic Walking - We had a great time learning a bit of nordic walking on a glorious summer evening in St. Andrew’s park. Huge thanks to Roz from www.bristolnordicwalking.co.uk for the demonstration.
- Review May: Anna Freeman - We heard from Anna Freeman.
- Review April: Poly-printing - Our first craft activity of the year.
- Review March: FoodCycle - A really enjoyable meeting from FoodCycle. Here are some resources that may be useful: Food Cycle – http://www.foodcycle.org.uk Incredible Edible – http://ediblebristol.org.uk Sims Hill Shared Harvest – http://simshill.co.uk The Community Farm – https://www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk Real Economy – https://www.realeconomy.co.uk Chutney recipe (I just change the veg according... Continue Reading →
- Review February: Yoga with Yogawest - Here's what we got up to last month with Yogawest.
- Review January: Aromatherapy - We heard from Anne Polet from Greenleaves Aromatherapy. Anne gave an informative talk about how she got into Aromatherapy, what it actually is, and how we can all use essential oils in the home. She also gave a demonstration in hand... Continue Reading →
- Review November: Festive Wreath Making -
Review October: AGM & Swishing - Our Annual report is available to view below: 2015-16-annual-general-meeting . (pdf)- Review September: Alexander Technique -
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