Sports & Leisure

Team Leader: Wendy Richardson

We offer a full programme of sports and leisure activities
throughout the year - almost an A - Z !

We have 2 Kurling Sets and come out to WIs.

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We have a Bingo Machine you can hire for £10 Download a Booking form

MARCH 2024

Are you sorting out your WI programmes for the next year? Do you have an empty date? If so, why not hire our federation Kurling sets or our Bingo machine? It is just £20 per set for the Kurling, and you can easily have 40 people with one set, but if you have more members or you wanted to open it up to husbands/partners and make it a social night, we do have 2 sets. You could either run it yourself or a member of the Sports & Leisure team can come and help you. How about a game of Bingo? We have a proper Bingo machine which displays the numbers as they are called and is just £10 to hire.  There is also a list of the calling names for each number if you want to use that.

We also have several sets of Rummikub, which we are happy to bring out and teach your members how to play. We hold an annual fun competition night of Rummikub. How many of you know you can also get Rummikub word? We bought it for my son for Christmas and it’s great. We were wondering if this would be something different to scrabble and if members would be interested or not – let me know. wendyrichardson@nottswi.org.uk

FEBRUARY 2024

Are you sorting out your WI programmes for the next year or do you have an empty date? If so, why not hire the Kurling sets or our Bingo machine we have. It is just £20 per set for the Kurling, and you can easily have 40 people with one set, but if you have more members or you wanted to open it up to husbands/partners and make it a social night, we do have 2 sets. You could either run it yourself or a member of the Sports & Leisure team can come and help you. How about a game of Bingo? We have a proper Bingo machine that shows you the numbers as they are called. This is just £20 to hire, there is also a list of the different names for each number if you like.

We also have several sets of Rummikub, which we are happy to bring out and teach your members how to play. We have a Federation annual fun competition night of Rummikub. But how many of you know you can also get Rummikub word? We bought it for my son for Christmas and it’s great. We were just wondering if this would be something different to scrabble and if members would be interested or not – let me know. wendyrichardson@nottswi.org.uk

DECEMBER

A Merry Christmas from your Sports and Leisure Team. If you are looking for present ideas, why not ask for a set of darts or a Rummikub set so that you can take part in our competitions next year? The Darts Pairs final was contested between Bleasby and Shelford WIs. After three good games Maureen Harper and Angela Unwin of Shelford WI came out on top again; congratulations to them and well done to Donna Ward and Denise Langley of Bleasby WI.

In October, 21 members met at Bingham WI Hall for our annual Rummikub competition. After 5 x 20 minute games, Beryl Northcote of Morton, Fiskerton and Rolleston WI was the winner, with a fantastic score of just 5 points!

A Happy New Year to you all!  Coming up next year we have another Bingo night organised for 8 March at Lowdham and our annual Bridge Day on 15 March at Oxton.

NOVEMBER

Last month you heard about the ‘Into the Forest’ Axe Throwing - here is a photograph

AXE THROWING

Bingo! Members from around the Federation went to Lowdham for a lovely evening of Bingo. Bingo books bought, pens poised, and off we went. Who was going to go home better off than they came? Those who won the alternative bingo games went home the richer with pens, chocolate and bubbles. They also enjoyed a wonderful supper of pie and peas with gravy. For those who had a good night or for those who missed it this time, we will be doing it all again in March next year.

For those of you who fancy getting closer to the clouds, we are going to be organising Gliding in August next year. We haven’t done this for a few years, so there must be some of you who haven’t done it before. Keep your eyes peeled for more information.

OCTOBER

The last game of the summer Whist league took place at Bleasby Village Hall. Avis Norman and Karen Mawer (Eakring WI) came out on top with 834, very closely followed by Kath Jowett (Thurgarton WI) and Sandra Charlton (Morton, Fiskerton and Rolleston WI) with 825. Well done to everyone who took part, it would be lovely to see more players next Summer.

In September 12 members went to Into the Forest at Arnold, they had a super evening learning how to do axe throwing and some knife throwing at wooden targets. I am happy to say everyone managed to get home safely! I hope all the Darts teams have their leagues for the dates and have started to get their matches organised. Good luck to you all.

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