Christmas Cheer at Shiloh

All members were invited to support Shiloh (the Homeless shelter in Rotherham) give their guests a Christmas to remember.  Generous donations were made ........

........... present boxes were made up and decorated  .....

......... Sheila and Rev Lynn Broadhead presented the gifts to Shiloh to be given out by

Father Christmas at the guests Christmas Dinner.

.......... Sheila receiving a thank you hug from Shiloh Founder Sue Savage.

Shiloh would like to thank all our WI members for their incredible generosity and wish us all a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.

We wish the same for them as they move into new, larger premises to serve the disadvantaged and vulnerable people of Rotherham to rebuild their lives.

Christmas Party with the Thorpe Hesley Village Choir

The committee certainly worked hard to ensure we had a really good end to the WI year.  The tables in the Trinity Centre were decorated beautifully as we were greeted by a welcome drink and Christmas music.

Ready to enjoy a wonderful meal ......

Pat and Carolyn getting in a party mood!

Our outside caterers for the evening really served up a festive feast ....

.......... with sweets produced by our resident chef Pam. The only problem was we had too much choice!! (Why is life so difficult!)

Tea ladies Sheila and Ann served us well before we enjoyed a wonderful selection of Christmas carols and songs by our local village choir.

Cheers!  Our glamourous tea ladies

Sarah and the Village Choir

Arthur giving a wonderful solo

 Jingle bells - percussionists Jean, Ann and Alison

A really lovely evening finished with us all getting a Christmas present to take home and put under the Christmas tree.

What a wonderful year of WI meetings - thanks to all committee members for their hard work.

Wentworth WI Christmas Party

A large number of members, dressed in their Christmas Finery, enjoyed an evening of wonderful hospitality provided by Wentworth WI.

After a rousing 'Vaudeville' rendition of Jerusalem we were soon tucking in to a superb Christmas buffet - the sweets were amazing!!

Jerusalem

Our excellent musicians for the evening raising money for Weston Park Hospital -

one of our favourite charities

Sybil, Linda, Angela and Pam with members from Wath WI

Cheers!!

Joan and Ruth from Chapeltown WI getting in to the 'Christmas Spirit' with Ann and Sheila

Guess which table won the Quiz!!

After a really lovely evening we were all given a little gift to bring home.

Happy Christmas to Wentworth WI as well as others from the Rockley Group.

Christmas Tree Festival

Mary and Sylvia did a fantastic job decorating the tree with all the items made by members at the crafting session.  Holy Trinitys' Christmas Fayre and Tree Festival was once again a great success with over 800 visitors during the weekend.  Voters placed our tree 2nd behind the Mens Breakfast tree so we were very pleased with the result of voting.

Jayne, Jean, Sheila, Elsie, Pat and Ann inspect the tree.

Doesn't the church look wonderful!

Going to the Dogs! (Owlerton Stadium)

Even though it was cold and miserable outside, the restaurant at the Owlerton Stadium was warm and inviting as 27 members and friends/husbands took their seats for what proved to be a really enjoyable evening.

Sheila and table ready for the first race!

Sue, Joan, Dorothy and Guests

Pat, Jill and Anne ready for a 'winning' evening!

Cheers!!

The start of an excellent meal .....

Jean and Pat enjoyed the roast lamb and all the trimmings ....... and the puddings were delicious as well.

Sybil presents the winning raffle prize ......

........... whilst Jayne collects her winnings!!               

Well done Sybil on organising another great evening of WI friendship - we all had a great time.

Crafting for the Christmas Tree Festival

Can't believe it's that time of year again!!

Oh yes it is!!

Alison and Mary ....... busy as bees!

A lovely warm trinity Centre, along with Sheila's tea and scones (what else) saw Mary marshall her troops once again for Holy Trinitys' Annual Christmas Tree Festival Craft workshop.

The theme this year is 'to represent your own organisation' so of course we had plenty to work on including 'Jam and Jerusalem', 'Sunflowers and bees', 'tea and cakes'   ...... and so much more!

A great time was had by all and the tree is going to look fantastic!!

Sheila, Jill, Pat, Pauline and Elsie busy making cakes

Pat and Ann making WI Tinsel

Don't they look good!

Ann and her Jam

November Meeting - Making something for Christmas with Sue Dixon

The meeting started with a 'thank you' to Dorothy and Alison for all their hard work co-ordinating the making of our new banner.  All agreed they'd done a fantastic job.

Jean Philip and Pat Shaw (deputising for Jean Newbold) then went through all the exciting things on offer in the run-up to Christmas whilst we all busily signed up and filled in our diaries.

Sue Dixon then introduced us to all the wonderful Christmas Craft activities she'd planned for us and we all really enjoyed ourselves and were quite proud of what we had to take home!!

First came the cards ......    

                  ....... then the gift tags .......

Aren't we clever!! (Well Sue had done so much preparation even the most ham-fisted amongst us couldn't go wrong!) 

It was quite therapeutic 'gluing' and 'sticking' and of course chatting and after we'd finished we enjoyed wonderful refreshments served by Linda and Joan.

Everyone was reminded that we're 'off to the dogs' on Tuesday 15th November at Owlerton Stadium and that our December meeting (party) is a week later than usual.