December Meeting - Christmas Party

A fantastic buffet greeted members as they arrived in the Trinity Centre for this years' Christmas Celebration - Ann, Sheila and Pat co-ordinated members contributions and had the table looking really great.

                                                              What an amazing buffet!

Although the evening started in sadness with the news of our much-loved Treasurer Jean Philip's recent death we knew she'd want us to enjoy ourselves ……. God Bless you Jean. RIP

Enjoying a wonderful medley of songs 

As well as receiving a 'secret santa' present ourselves members were really generous in their donations of presents for the guests at Shiloh.

What a lot of presents!!

A special birthday for our new Treasurer Lynn - many congratulations on your special day and thanks for stepping into Jean's shoes

Well done committee for organising a great evening.

Look forward to seeing everyone again in 2019.

Cristmas Tree Festival

Well done to all members who helped at the Christmas Tree Festival in any way and to those who visited - our tree finished a creditable 3rd in the voting so very well done to all who made decorations and Carolyn and Sylvia who decorated the tree.

Now for the Christmas Party!

Crafting for the Christmas Tree Festival

Well done to all members who turned up to make decorations for our WI tree at this years Christmas Tree Festival.   Mary came up with some great ideas to represent Norway.   Good luck to Carolyn and Sylvia who have volunteered to decorate it once again.

Don't forget to visit Holy Trinity to see all the trees at some point - the church always looks fantastic!

Armistice Celebrations

Lots of members enjoyed the village commemorative festivities for the end of WW1.

A good time was had by all.

Wentworth Woodhouse Grand Plan

Mary, as our President got a first-hand chance to see the plans for the restoration of nearby Wentworth Woodhouse  -  watch this space for news!!

November Meeting - Christmas Crafting

Thanks to Mary, Sue, Ann and Linda for their help and patience  -  some wonderful creations were made.

Special 70th birthday wishes to Jean

Thanks to Pat Brown and Jill Bartrop for amazing refreshments throughout the evening!

Rockley AGM

Many thanks to Wentworth WI for organising such an entertaining meeting - Cynthia Shaw was such an interesting speaker.

A well attended meeting

Cynthia in full flow!

We enjoyed our refreshments

A great afternoon - Thanks Wentworth WI.

October's Meeting - AGM

Mary gave a full and comprehensive report of another very busy year.  The committee were given a round of applause for all their hard work in organising another year of great meetings, trips and social events.

Committee 2018-19

After the business part of the meeting we were then able to tuck into 'pie n peas' and enjoy a quiz  - well done to Linda, Sheila, Jill and Joan who scored full marks!

Quiz Queens!

Village Show 2018

Well done to all members who helped in any way - our stall sold out and it was nice to be part of a great Community Event.

Here we go ladies!

Cheers!

Stall looks good doesn't it

Ann and Sheila made over £400 on the refreshments!

Thanks to all members who baked.

Next meeting is the AGM …… make sure you've ordered your Pie n Peas!

SYFWI Visit to the Mansion House Doncaster

All those who went from our WI to join with others across the Federation had a great time -

- and we'll be back as Sue's booked us in for Christmas Dinner!!

Sign up at next month's meeting.

September Meeting - 'Heartfulness'

A lovely 'restful' meeting - well at least for part of it!!

Carolyn with our visiting speaker

Our cheerful Tea Ladies

Happy Birthday Barbara from us all

Ann reminds us it's the Village Show next Saturday - don't forget to make your biscuits for our stall and to get your entries in for the various exhibits.

Should be a really good day.

August Meeting at Cannon Hall

Many thanks to Sue Dixon for arranging this day out at nearby Cannon Hall - the weather, food and company was excellent.

Ready to tuck in to a lovely lunch!

Enjoying all that Cannon Hall has to offer!

July Meeting - A Day at the seaside

What a superb evening!

Well done to our hard working committee for putting together such a fun evening for members and guests from neighbouring WI groups.

A packed hall with the tables beautifully decorated

A 'summery' table of ladies

Members as you've never seen them before!!

Punch and Judy entertainment

Hook-a-duck stall

Rockley Rally

Another great event with our bottle stall proving a huge success. 

Thanks to all who contributed and to those who helped on the day.

Carolyn and Pat

Ready for the speaker

Our stall looking good

Federation Treasure Hunt - Cawthorne

What a beautiful village …. and what a beautiful evening for a Treasure Hunt!

Although we didn't win our team of Mary, Sue Dixon and Sue Dunnigan, Pat Shaw and Pat Henderson and Jayne had a great time looking for clues.

We bumped into quite a few WI friends from other groups as well.

Ready for the off!

The first of many beautiful houses in the village

Jayne and Mary meet up with a dancing friend from Penistone WI.

Pat enjoys the sun outside Cawthorne Museum

Sue and Mary having a swing in the sun!

Afterwards we enjoyed a really lovely Strawberry Cream Tea in the Village Hall -

thanks to Gawber WI for hosting us.

June Meeting - 'Stitching up a Family' with Sue Clifton

Jean welcomed our guest speaker for the evening who gave a really entertaining talk on how inheriting two family Grandfather clocks led to her researching her family tree and then illustrating her findings in the form of embroidered 'pictures'.

Her imagination certainly ran wild as she explained the various family characters and surnames and how she came to depict them.  We couldn't believe the detail in her designs - what a talented lady!

Jean then led the business part of the meeting and we were all pleased to hear of the good progress of Dorothy, Sheila and Marjorie after their recent hospital stays.  Bottles were collected for our stall at the  Rockley Rally and notices given out for forthcoming events.  We then enjoyed lovely home-made refreshments served by Ann and Julie - thanks ladies.

Don't forget next month's Summer Party - a day at the seaside!!

SYFWI Visit to Sheffields' Botanical Gardens

Pat and Mary had a great day along with approximately 50 other WI members from the federation, enjoying a guided tour of Sheffields' recently refurbished Botanical gardens.

Well worth a visit.