Creative Activities

Team Leader: Bev Stuart

This team encourages WIs and members to participate in a variety of activities that include - music, dance, literature, painting crafts and cookery

JULY

We’re half-way through the year already and this month it’s the John Lewis with Liz Earle event which I’m really looking forward to although it will already have taken place by the time most of you read this! Steelpan Drumming should have taken place this month but unfortunately, due to a family event, the tutor has had to postpone the event until September. If you had booked for the drumming session, the office will already have been in touch with you so please check your emails (look in your junk box in case it has gone in there) for further information.

JUNE

This month it’s the Federation Day & Annual Meeting on Saturday 14 June. I am looking forward to that, with the workshops in the morning and then, with competitions, stalls and a speaker there’s a lot for members to participate in. It’s been quite a challenge to organise but now all we can do is cross our fingers and hope for a smooth day.

Other events happening soon include Steelpan Drumming on Saturday 5 July, taking place at Hucknall Central Methodist Hall. Then a Liz Earle face care demonstration at John Lewis on Thursday 10 July, this was an excellent event last year and we expect it to be similar this year.

I should like to thank members for attending the Creative Activities’ Team events and taking part in the workshops we have organised for you. Our team have done a great job – thank you very much for your help and support over the last year.

MAY

It’s May already and I’m looking forward to Federation Day next month. Have you entered one of the competitions? There’s still time to enter: write a poem, make a peg doll, bake a cake, or take a photo! It’s fun to see all the entries and to find out who the winners are receiving a rosette. I hope you can also contribute to the appeal for knitted or crocheted blankets approx size 76cm (30 inches) x 122cm (48 inches) and small pairs of knitted hearts. These are for the Butterfly Comfort & Memory Making trollies used by the End-of-Life Care team at Kings Mill, Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals. You may bring or send them to Federation Day. There are workshops in the morning with the Annual Federation Meeting after lunch, a superb speaker has been booked, and all this will make it a thoroughly good day out.

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