AMERICAN WOMEN’S CLUBS NEWS for you to learn more about the club and make some new friends. Join us for a“New Member Wine and Cheese Party”on January 25th, from 7:30 pm till 8:30 pm. No need to explain this event! It’s a great way to meet new friends, current members and do a little socialising! Come and learn more about the Club and London and mellow out with a glass of wine. It is open to everyone and please RSVP – we hate it when we run out of wine! It’s at the AWC Office on 68 Old Brompton Road, SW7 3LQ. If evenings don’t work, then come along on January 10th or February 2nd at 10:00 am for a “New Member Coffee”. It is, just what it says, a coffee for women who are thinking about joining and want to know a little bit more about the Club. It’s a great way to meet members or make a new friend. It’s in this safe environment that you can ask all those silly questions we all have about being new and living in a new country. The coffee is open to everyone, but please RSVP so we have enough coffee and pastries! It’s very casual and at the AWC Office on 68 Old Brompton Road, SW7 3LQ. Each month we host a meeting with a special guest speaker to provide members with an opportunity to learn something new! We also use the time to talk about AWC club news and upcoming events, and of course, it is always fun to see and meet other women in a social environment. Our next meeting is on January 24th, from 10:00 am till 12:00 pm. It is at the Royal Thames Yacht Club, 60 Knightsbridge, SW1X 7LF. For more information and to RSVP please email awc@awclondon.org or call 020 7589 8292. There really is no need to look further! Join the AWC and you can take advantage of all the events and activities on offer throughout the year! For example, you can take advantage of the sales on our annual trip to the pottery outlets
in Stoke-on-Trent! There are many deals to be found! A private coach will transport us to the individual factory stores, where you can shop to your heart’s content. We will stop at such shops as: Burleigh, Emma Bridgewater, Waterford/ Wedgewood/Royal Doulton, Portmeirion and possibly Moorcroft, if time permits. The bus has storage room for your purchases and many of the factories will ship to a US address free of VAT! For more information about these events and to RSVP, or for more information about the Club in general, come by the AWC office at 68 Old Brompton Road, SW7 3LQ or call and talk to Lauren, our Office Manager, on 020 7589 8292, or check out the website at www.awclondon. org or email the office awc@awclondon.org . No matter how you look at it the AWC is a great resource and a wonderful way to make some new friendships! Start something new this winter!
North American Connection (NAC)
West Midlands What an amazing day we had on 20th November for our annual NAC Thanksgiving celebration! The NAC is a social group for expats living in Birmingham, West Midlands, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and all points in between. For Thanksgiving there were 80 of us, including our families, enjoying a fabulous lunch in an elegant, private dining room at the beautiful Hogarth’s Hotel in Solihull. The hotel spoiled us with welcome drinks and a fantastically delicious turkey dinner with all the trimmings, including some traditional Thanksgiving side dishes made from recipes that were provided by our expat members! Each family group brought a homemade dessert too, so the dessert table was beautifully abundant with amazing cakes, pies, puddings and cookies! Between courses the whole room played a lively game of ‘heads and tails’ and managed to raise over £300 in the process to donate to our nominated charity this year, which is MacMillan.org.uk. The NAC organises many monthly social events throughout the year, and this often includes educational and philanthropic activities too. We hold monthly coffee mornings, mom and tots days, craft days, day time and evening book club gatherings. We also organise
NAC - ‘Bunco Evening’
regular pub lunches, day excursions and dinner evenings to include spouses as well. We have a ‘Third Thursday’ evening event for ladies every month, which is well attended. It might be cinema, theatre or even our popular Bunco evening which can get very lively – especially after a few glasses of wine! If you’ve never played Bunco, be assured, you would never have believed a simple game involving dice could be so highly entertaining and fun, or maybe it’s the ladies here that just make it that way! This regular event also raises money towards our chosen charity. Most of us are women from the United States or Canada, but we welcome other expatriates with a particular connection or interest in joining. We’re quite a diverse group ranging from short or long-term expats to those who have been here for many years and chosen to live in England permanently. We live in the West Midlands with members reaching as far as an hour radius outside Birmingham, including Solihull, Leamington Spa, Lichfield, Stratford upon Avon, Worcester and Oxford. We are always happy to extend a very warm welcome to new members who wish to join our expat ‘family’! For further information about meeting us at one of our events or becoming a member please visit us at www.naconnect.com
UK Friends of NMWA – the National Museum of Women in the Arts Have you visited the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington
NAC - Annual Thanksgiving lunch at Hogarth’s Hotel
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