Women's Institute (WI)

December brought to a close to the W.I. year with our Christmas Party / Meeting which as always was great fun [aided by the annual ‘tuneful’ rendition of the Twelve Days of Christmas]. In addition, we had our now traditional trip to Chester Cathedral for the Chester Music Society’s Christmas Cracker. Sadly, the guest presenter, Roger McGough was taken ill at the last minute but nevertheless the Concert was wonderful. The addition of musical items by the Saturday morning children’s choir was particularly appreciated.

We now have a new Committee with members who are raring to go, intent on providing plenty of opportunities for members to have days out, entertaining speakers and lots of other opportunities to meet up to sing, craft and walk together.

In February our speaker will be from the RNLI. They will share with us the history of Rhyl RNLI Lifeboat and in March we will have our combined St David’s Day and Easter celebration.

As an Institute we have offered our services to help the Dyserth Environmental Group with the planting of the 420 saplings they have been gifted from the Woodland Trust. It is understood that these saplings will be planted in a field, to be identified, in Dyserth. Members are excited by this opportunity to join force with another local community group.

At our January meeting we voted on the resolution that we wanted to go forward at a national level for discussion. It will be finally voted upon at the Nationl Annual Meeting in May. It was agreed that out of the 4 options presented we gave most support to the resolution which called on decisionmakers to introduce updated legislation and regulation to address the harms caused by problem gambling.

Dyserth W.I. continues to offer fun and friendship to any woman living in and around Dyserth including Trelawnyd, Rhyl, Rhuddlan and Prestatyn. We meet at 7.00 p.m. on the second Friday of every month [except August].

If you want to keep up with our activities, then find us on Facebook. Just type in Dyserth WI to see pictures and articles about past events and outings.

If you are interested in joining Dyserth WI or want to find out more please contact our President, Linda on reesowen.lro@gmail.com or our new secretary on hughesannn59@gmail.com.

Sue Wright