May is our Annual General Meeting. This is your chance to shape your WI.

Lin Saines will talk about herbs and their many uses.  She will bring samples so that we can smell and taste the herbs.

Come and add baubles, bangles and beads to picture frames. 

Jennifer Cooper will give a talk on the discovery of graves in the London Bridge area when new buildings were being constructed.

Nicola Dunn will give a brief history of hand-lettering and then we can have a go.

Kate Willoughby is a writer, performer and campaigner. She describes herself as a proud Yorkshire woman and a part-time Suffragette.

Kate is a co-founder of #EmilyMatters, a social media campaign to support and advance gender equality, particularly focusing on the importance of voting. The organisation aims to bring people together, to celebrate how far we have come and through drama and creativity helping to empower a new generation to use their voice and be heard.

* Please note that this talk is an alteration to our scheduled event about the craft of willow weaving. 

A talk by Freya Rodger, who set herself the challenge of attempting every Olympic sport that women would be competing in at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Sian Rickard will teach us some ‘Bollywood’ moves.

Downham and Whitefoot Community Choir, which includes some of our members, will be singing with us and telling us about what they do.

London Search and Rescue is a charitable organisation, that assists the police in the search for vulnerable missing people. Our members make themselves available 24 hours a Day, 7 Days a Week and 365 Days a Year. Our volunteer members are spread throughout London and sometimes beyond, giving us the broadest level of cover across the London area

Learn all about Lowland Rescue and the foundation of London Search and Rescue in a talk by Steve McGowan.

Learn about origami with Giuditta Hudson-Gool.