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One of our wonderful members, Ann-Marie, recently visited Denman College with her Mum (also a WI member!) and wrote us a lovely review of their weekend. We would like to thank Ann-Marie very much – x Inspired by joining the Sotonettes last December I invited my mum (North Lincolnshire WI) on a ‘Mother and Daughter’…

On the 26th February we celebrated our 1st Birthday – one year since our very first meeting and when the Sotonettes officially became a WI! In celebration, our February meeting was a big birthday party with party bags, party games, a huge raffle and so much cake brought along by members and guests. It was…

Apologies for things having been a little quite here recently. The committee have been hard at work making plans for 2013 and making sure it’ll be even better than 2012 (which was pretty awesome itself!). Here is our promotional poster for 2013, please do share it with friends and maybe print off a copy to…

  Our programme for the first five months of 2013! Keep your eyes on the blog and Facebook page for updates on events closer to the time. We hope to see you all at the events 🙂 Many thanks to Paul Solomon of Johnny Toaster for creating the programme flyer.   Sotonettes Committee x  

As October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we based our meeting around the theme of Boobs! We had the lovely Sally and Sarah, two Boobettes from the charity CoppaFeel, talk to us about breast cancer and the importance of self-examination, even at an early age.  CoppaFeel is a charity started by Kris Hallenga after she…

In September we were lucky enough to be joined by Veronique Devine (Ms. V) and Madeleine Soleil for an introduction to burlesque dancing. As well as trying out our new venue, Que Pasa, we also had lots of new faces come along to join in and it was lovely to meet you all. Ms. V…