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Projects & Events

DENMAN COLLEGE

Members fully support Denman College, the NFWI's college in Oxfordshire, and Jane Randell is our federation representative.

Surrey Federation will take over the College in May this year for a two-night break from 21 to 23 May. The courses available are: Spas and Spires (Bath and Oxford), Demystifying the Internet and Email, Viva Las Vegas, Beaded Flowers, Introduction to Wine and Wine Tasting, and A ramble through the quiet Cotswold villages. 

Denman twin
Each room at the college is supported by a Federation or other sponsor. The Surrey Room has been under renovation for some time


Members have created a new wallhanging for the room depicting the various activities that took place during our 90th anniversary celebrations last year. This has been hung over the mantlepiece

Here are a few photographs showing work in progress

ladies at work

Scarecrow

Roundel

Cockerel


ACWW

Our members are very keen to support the work of ACWW, and collect foreign and old sterling coins which raises income on a regular basis.

SFWI also supports special projects such as that we supported in 2009 in India where women from three marginal groups in the district of Tamil Nuda are being trained in non-traditional embroidery and needlework skills and this is well under way. The aim is to train 20 women from each group in the first year, building up to 300 women after five years. There is a demand for embroidered fabrics locally and this will help them become self-sufficient. We will be shortly deciding on the project for 2010.

Our ACWW representative is Gwendoline Foster who is happy to visit WIs to talk to them about any aspects of ACWW.

ACWW rep

Gwendoline Foster

Gwendoline chaired a meeting in April 2009 to form a regional support group for ACWW.  The members will join together to attend and support ACWW conferences including the next Triennial at Hot Springs, Arkansas in 2010, and Gwendoline is attending this in April on our behalf.

On 15 October, International Day for Rural women, we will be holding an event entitled "Honey for the Honies" at East Horsley Village Hall.  A tea of honey-based food will be served, such as honey bread, baklava etc. and we will have a report from speakers of their experiences at the Triennial Conference.