|
April 2008
When Winteringham W.I held their meeting on Thursday 17th April 2008, the president, Mrs Chris Wood welcomed 26 members.
Six members will be attending the Federation A.G.M. at Cleethorpes and a list was sent round for members to sign if they wished to attend the Isle Group’s Food & Flowers Day on 29th May
The Federation Newsletter was perused and items of interest noted. The correspondence received was read.
Although the team from Winteringham had not won at the Trent Group Quiz Night on 15th April, it had been a most enjoyable evening with an excellent buffet supper. The Group’s Spring Meeting is on Tuesday 20th May at St Andrews and tickets for this were on sale.. The Speaker is Pam Bosworth - “A Flight of Fashion”.
This year the outing will be to Doddington Hall on Thursday June 26th. Members were asked to put their names on the list if they would like to go.
The president then welcomed the speaker - Bev Hewings. Bev explained that she would be telling the members about the Fresh Start project. This project is to encourage people over 50 to take part in a variety of activities. The idea is to make people feel included in their community, both in towns and in rural areas.
Bev handed out the latest newsletter from Fresh Start and in the back of this all the activities are listed in a diary covering the current month. She explained about a sub project in Health Training and also about the Benefits Advisor. Recently an activity had been held for Grandparents and their grandchildren. This had been very popular and Fresh Start will be organising more intergenerational activities. The writers group have published a book which has been illustrated by junior school children.
Hopefully by encouraging older people to join in these activities Fresh Start will help to prevent depression, a feeling of isolation, keep people healthy and thus prevent the need for older people to go into care.
Val Lancaster gave the vote of thanks on behalf of the members. She said that most people just do not know that all these activities do take place and wished Fresh Start the very best of luck in the future.
The hostesses, Anne Carnaby & Fay McNeil served the members with a welcome cup of tea or coffee and the draw for the mystery parcels donated by Anne and Fay took place. The winners were Val Hayton and Josie Ogg.
The Competition for ‘A Pill Box’ was judged by Bev Hewings.
1st Karen Moody, 2nd Sandra Wilkinson and 3rd Barbara Ashton.
|
