Denman College ( W.I.) has closed!

Dillington House nr Ilminster in Somerset do day and residential courses and are opening in September in accordance with Covid guidelines. It is taking bookings now. The courses include crafts, history, poetry etc. It’s a lovely old house set in a large estate. Idk what the prices are like but can’t be any more than Denham.

Thanks Avalon that’s interesting.?

Have to confess my experience of WI put me off, as everyone had been born well before 1940, and was cliquey in the extreme.

But maybe that is just me, I can remember being furious at attending a local members group of a very well known institute, and being shut out of every group that I tried to join, in spite of having met some of them at conferences before. I really did think I had become totally invisible, just because I was the only woman there!!!

A friend asked me to go to WI with her in our village. It was very formal with the minutes from the last meeting and all correspondence read out followed by discussions on those before the speaker - took ages. The folk on the committee were the same ones every year, just with different titles. If there was one nearby with some younger women involved I'd definitely join. I went 3 times to the village one despite paying for the year. I'd rather be at home.

We have quite a number of Scottish TWG members in our group Jane10

twinnytwin our group do it the other way round now, speaker first the minutes (as briefly but thoroughly as possible).
Then, if the speaker wants to go they can although most seem to stay for a chat afterwards.

Then the minutes