Ely City WI

 

Ely City WI is one of the WIs that form the Isle of Ely Federation, which are all part of the National Federation of Women's Institutes

 

A warm welcome from our President, Sheila :

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The 2024-2025 WI year is a special one for Ely City WI: we celebrate our 40th anniversary of our creation.  Yes, Ely City WI has been part of Ely life for 40 years.  In the last three years we have seen rapid growth of our WI membership and we are very proud to say our membership now numbers 63 and still growing! 

The WI is for all women.  We, at Ely City WI, have a diverse membership and welcome all those who identify themselves as women.  We are a friendly, caring, fun-loving group of women.  We welcome women from the age of 18; there is no upper age limit. 

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We offer a varied annual programme of eleven meetings: talks, demonstrations, activities as well as meetings where we just get to share time together.  In August we don't officially meet but we do have a couple of summer social events in order that we can share time together.  We have a growing offering of sub-groups: diners club, ladies that lunch, leisure group (coffee/afternoon tea gatherings), craft group, book group (we need another as our current one is full!), quiz group, and we would like to offer more: could you be that person to organise a sub=group?  There is something for every woman at WI.

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We also participate in community engagement initiatives: we have supplied cakes for a community coronation afternoon tea, and cakes for a civic event, we collect each month for the local foodbanks, as examples.  Our fundraising events this year are a quiz night and a christmas wreath making afternoon tea.  We have participated in previous year at the Ely Arts Festival funday with  cake/bottle stalls.  We have craft-bombed Ely on many occasions: for the late Queen Elizabeth II's Platinium Jubilee, King Charles III's coronation, as well as our annual Show the Love green heart display in February and our Poppy displays in November every year. Plus more besides!  Our members really get involved!  Our digital scrapbooks will give you a flavour.

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We would love you to join us: our welcome officer will introduce you to your first WI friend and from there, well, who knows where WI will take you!  We look forward to seeing you soon.

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A note of thanks: from April 2024 Sarah will be taking on the helm of caretaker president whilst Sheila has some personal business to attend to for a number of months.  Sheila wishes to publicly thank Sarah for volunteering to do this and keeping Ely City WI running during this time.  Thank you so much Sarah.

 

Don't delay, come and join us today.

 

We are Ely City WI. We are. We can. We do.

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*Guest rate applies (£5.00 per meeting), 3 visits, then will have to join WI on 4th visit and pay subscription fee.  

If you are a member of another WI then the visitor fee is £2.50 on production of your WI membership card, after 3 visits then you would have to join as a dual member.

Details of current subscription rate can be found at NFWI website (see links page). 

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