Adderbury and District Women's Institute was formed in November 2010. We meet in The Institute, Adderbury, on the first Thursday of every month at 7.30pm. We met by Zoom during Lockdown but now, since September 2021, we are meeting again at The Institute at 7.30pm on
1st Thursday of every month. Activities over the past four years have included guest speakers on a wide variety of subjects including local history, Dogs for the Disabled, beekeeping, the Mystery of Agatha Christie, English Cut Flowers, Costumes in the theatre and the history and memories of Whitney blanket making. We have had demonstrations of how to make ourselves look more glamporous and make the best of our wardrobes, how to cook Japanese and now our latest demo on cooking family meals without meat or fish (October 2014), and trips out to Denman College, Lord Leycester Hospital, Ditchley Park and Broughton Grange garden. In May 2011, we were privaleged to have Pru Leith come and give us a very entertaining evening, recalling her life experiences and some of the amazing things she has achieved. Not only do we meet once a month but we also have various activities going on throughout the month for those who are interested including a knitting group, which has now become our revisioned "needlecrafters" group, aa reading group with a wide-ranging book list and our walking group which, in the summer of 2014, visited a Medicinal Herbalists garden for a talk on the use of such herbs and their home application plus a tour of this very lovely garden. You are most welcome to come along to any of these "extra activity" groups. They are usually held in a member's house, so please keep an eye on our notice board at The Institute, or on our website for venue details. All ideas are very welcome, whether that is suggestions for our monthly meetings, trips, speakers or for our extra monthly activities. So if you have a skill or wlould like to learn something new, please do let us know and we will try to accommodate. Many members come to our meetings in order to meet and make new friends, We all live very full and busy lives but if you would like to come along to one of our meetings you will be assured of a warm welcome and we will ensure that you will not be left along if you do no know anyone. Each year we like to support a charity and to date we have supported GAGA - Goodwill & Growth for Africa UK(GAGA) - looks at working, funding and forging relationships with organisations which aim to alleviate the effects of poverty, disease (HIV/AIDS) and violence on African children and the greater communities that they live in; BYHP - Banbury Young Homeless Project - BYHP exists to support and assist Young People in finding and maintaining a safe home from which they may be assisted to determine their own opportunities in life. We currently maintain a donation box for suitable food items at our monthly meetings. The current year's charity is the Frank Wise School - a community school for children with Special Needs, between the ages of 2 to 19, described by Ofsted as "Outstanding and Inspirational". Beginning at Wood Green
House with 30 pupils, the school has now been running for 50 years, currently catering for 107 children and young people.
