Hello, I hope you are all enjoying your summer. September is creeping up on us and Hampton WI will soon be back in full swing with meetings and events.

I have 10 tickets for the annual gathering of WIs in the Spelthorne Group. Each year a different WI act as hosts, our hosts for 2017 are Sunbury WI. The venue is Ashford Community Centre and tickets are £4. See the photo for details of the evening’s entertainment and the other WIs involved. Please contact me if you would like me to reserve you a ticket, you can pay me at our first meeting in September.

A key feature of this annual event is the competition. This year’s theme is ‘Homemade Hats’ – I will send out a separate blog post about this – watch this space!

Another WI ‘end of term’ approaches.

On Tuesday we will celebrate summer in our usual style – PIMMS, shortbread, strawberries and an entertainer. Ever wondered how those amazing balloon creatures and flowers are made – without popping the balloon? On Tuesday you will be finding out!

Glenys would like to invite all WI members to her annual fund raising garden party, this year Glenys is raising money for meningitis  research. Full details on the invite below

We are looking forward to taking part in this year’s Classics on the Green with our usual second hand book stall.

Pleas bring you donations of unwanted books/CDs/DVDs or Music cassettes to the WI stall on Sunday or drop them off in Kit’s BLACK BOX (outside 1 Gresham Road) on Saturday.

Jacqui, Lesley and Kit are manning the stall. If you can drop by and stay long enough to give them a tea break they’d appreciate it!

Thank you