Friendship bedrock

Jessica Munro Helped To Breathe Life Into Kinross

“Lots of new houses have been built in the Kinross area, which of course means that we have many new families moving into the area. So, when I was asked if I would help to start a new SWI group in Kinross, I had absolutely no hesitation in saying yes as it took me back to the time in my own life when I moved into the area.

I had no links with Kinross, I did not come from a farming background, and had never lived in the country. I was desperately looking for things to get involved in, and ways of meeting new friends. Then a woman I met suggested I went along with her to the ‘Rural’ and, as they say, the rest is history.

That, however, was more than twenty years ago, and many things have changed in that time. Now women are very busy, and the world we live in means the demands on their time is very different. If we want our organisation to survive and grow (and of course we do) then we must make it worth while for today’s women to invest their time.

That means we must support them to do the things they want to do, when they want to do it, and how they want to do it. The approach and language used must also be much more informal, and terms like ‘Institutes’ and ‘Committees’ should be avoided. The