NFWI Annual Review 2015-2016

1ST 2ND 3RD
1st Gillian Wilson, Poynton WI, Cheshire Federation
2nd Elé Van Schoor, Hungerford WI, Berkshire Federation
3rd Barbara Evans, Kings Norton WI, West Midlands Federation
These step-by-step films have instructions on various
craft projects for members at every skill level, and
promise to offer something new for everyone to try.
Across the Surrey, Worcestershire and Derbyshire
Federations, WI members have been participating in
pilot courses of the NFWI Baking and Preservation
certificates. Students have been enjoying
developing skills and achieving their certificates,
and some are looking forward to progressing to
Demonstrators and Judges training in the future.
The Cookery Committee will review these pilot
courses with a view to
being able to promote
the certificates more
widely in coming years.
For members keen to try
their hand at something a
little more competitive,
the Craft Committee ran an upcycling craft
competition: ‘Something Old, Something New’.
Members were invited to give an existing woollen
jumper or cardigan a new lease of life and turn it into
a new piece or product that could either have a
functional element or be a purely fun crafting object.
A total of 59 entries were received and the three
winning entries were:
1st Gillian Wilson, Poynton WI, Cheshire Federation
2nd Elé Van Schoor, Hungerford WI, Berkshire
Federation
THIS YEAR 168 NEW
WIS HAVE OPENED
ACROSS THE COUNTRY
3rd Barbara Evans, Kings Norton WI, West Midlands
Federation
All three winning entries are available as projects for
members to download from the craft area on the WI
Moodle. The Cookery Committee has been working
hard to offer members ways to develop their skills
from the comfort of their own home, and has worked
with the WI Cookery School at Denman to develop
collaborative short skills videos available through the
WI Moodle and WI website. There will be insights
into all sorts of cookery and baking in these
informative videos, and they
are a great way of showcasing
the facilities and tutors at the
WI Cookery School at
Denman too. For members
who are keen to develop
digital skills, there is a new
interactive course for
members on the WI Moodle to discover how to put
together their own digital story to share with friends
and family, and present information in a completely
new way. The course includes an understanding of
basic storytelling skills, how best to structure and
script a story, edit the audio recorded, and illustrate
and edit the voiceover - the possibilities are endless!
In Wales, a scrapbook competition was launched to
give every WI the opportunity to record their activities
during the WI’s centenary year. The scrapbooks are an
historical document with all members recorded
IMAGE: Jackson Hammond
WI member taking part in a class
at the WI Cookery School
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