21 February : 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 -
- Review August: Fimo - Here's what we got up to at our clay modelling meeting.
- Review July: Skill Share - Thanks to all our speakers on Share a Skill night!
- Review June: Our 5th Birthday Party - BBQ, quiz, and cake!
- Review May: Angie Belcher - We were treated to a gig by the hilarious Angie Belcher, with much hooting (and snorting!) of laughter by all. Angie, also did a question and answer session afterwards, where we found out more about how she got into comedy and poetry.
- Review April Meeting: The psychology of superstition -
- Review March Meeting: Integrate Bristol - In March we had a talk by Integrate Bristol, an anti-FGM charity. FGM stands for Female Genital Mutilation, sometimes called female circumcision, which is a traditional cultural practice carried out in some African and Asian communities, not linked to religion... Continue Reading →
- 19 April: The psychology of superstition - We hear from Dr Stuart Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh Stuart Wilson is one of the few people in the world with a Ph.D in parapsychology but he gave up studying the paranormal and started researching why normal... Continue Reading →
- Review February Meeting: Fizz tasting with Ruth Wiles from Clifton Wine School -
- Review: New membership and Vicki Hill - It was great to see so many membership renewals and lots of new faces at the January meeting. Thank you all for pre-filling in your forms and cheques, this made a big difference to the queue, and the new method of... Continue Reading →
- Review: November Meeting – Christmas Crafts (Japanese Kusudama) - Instructions for Japanese Kusudama Page 1.pdf Instructions for Japanese Kusudama Page 2.pdf Review of the Meeting CLP introduced the new committee for 2016, who are Chair/President – CLP Treasurer – Lesley Hagar Secretary and Membership Secretary – Rachel Mylrea... Continue Reading →
- Review: October Meeting – AGM, Oktoberfest & Networking - This month’s meeting was split into three, our AGM and official WI business, networking and then a chance to put the networking skills into practice with our members’ market – Oktoberfest. AGM CLP summed up the year in pictures, went over... Continue Reading →
- Review: September Meeting – Bake-off & Grow-off - After an amazing talk from Clare Millar – 'Eat for Victory', we had lots of cake eating and then the judging started for our Bake-off and Grow-off.
- Review: August Meeting – Lawn Bowls - Our August meeting on Tuesday 18 August was spent playing lawn bowls at Bristol St Andrews Bowling club, our WI meeting venue. It was a bright, sunny late summer evening and ideal weather for playing outdoor bowls. We had some... Continue Reading →
- Review: July Meeting – Inspirational Women - This evening Lucienne Boyce gave an inspiring talk, highlighting how hard the suffragettes fought in their struggle to win the vote for women in this country, and we also started putting together our wall of 100 inspirational women.
- Review: June Meeting 2015 – Floristry Demo - Cherril was an engaging speaker who gave a really good overview of floristry techniques as well as producing three gorgeous displays.
- Review: April Meeting 2015, Professor Malcolm Evans OBE - This month we welcomed Professor Malcolm Evans.
- Review: May Meeting 2015, Chocolate Tasting - This evening Zara gave us a delicious insight into the world of the chocolatier while skilfully delivering an interesting and highly informative talk on the history of all things chocolate.
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