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Walking Group
We have a small group of members who enjoy a monthly walk around Abingdon and the surrounding area, such as a walk along the bridle way to Sunningwell. We sometimes catch a bus to one of the outlying villages or Read more
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Members’ Meetings
Abingdon Fitzharrys WI suspended in person meetings as a result of Covid 19 restrictions from April 2020. In 2021 meetings via Zoom were organised as an alternative and since June 2021 they are delighted to be able to gather together Read more
Minutes
January 2020 meeting report
Moira opened the meeting by welcoming everyone and our speaker Gary Hibbins from The Abingdon Bridge (TAB). Apologies were received from Mary, Marian, Ann, Gaby, Loran, Maria and Sheila. Viv introduced our speaker Gary whom she first met in 1996 Read more
Newsletters
February 2020 newsletter
At the Committee meeting we went through our new, exciting programme for 2020/21 which includes another visit from Jeff Rozelaar – the “Bagels and Bacon” man – who will tell us some more fascinating stories, this time about Sir Winston Read more
Blog
Faberdashery sale
Due to the coronavirus the sale has been postponed from 21 March to Saturday 11 July 2020 10 am to 3pm at Denman College in Marcham. The sale will include fabric, curtaining from the roll, lining, header tape, sewing threads, Read more
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Art Group
The Art Group has been growing since its inception over 6 years ago and now has a membership of 10. We meet twice a month for 3 hours in the Morgan room at Northcourt Centre and come, prepared with materials, Read more
Newsletters
January 2020 newsletter
Happy New Year everyone. Here are a few reminders for Tuesday’s meeting. Judy White will give a presentation on The History of Northcourt, after which members are invited to recall their memories of Abingdon as it was. We are having Read more
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Craft Group
The Craft Group will meet for the first time in 2020 on Friday 31 January at 2 pm at Hilary’s house. The last meeting of the Craft Group in 2019 was on Friday 22 November, when the group made Christmas Read more
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Theatre Groups
January 2020 is kicking off with a visit to see the live screening of the Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty, on Thursday 16 January. Summer 2019 included trips to live screenings of the Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake Read more
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December 2019 newsletter
It doesn’t seem possible that we are in December and Christmas is just round the corner. We are now three quarters of the way through our WI year and Viv has already applied for an adviser to attend our AGM Read more