With gladrags and victory rolls at the ready, HA:WI Women’s Institute rolled out the hospitality carpet to welcome the Centenary baton and the inspirational historian Jane Robinson. For the event the ‘new generation’ HA:WI invited members, other WI members from across Middlesex, along with inspiring women from Pinner to an event on Tuesday 12th, to celebrate the WI’s 100th birthday.
With special guest Jane Robinson, author and historian, speaking about the history of the Women’s Institute and drawing from her book ‘A Force to be Reckoned With’, the ladies enjoyed an evening in true WI style. Tea was served in fine bone-china vintage cups and saucers, alongside the obligatory victoria sponge, made by HA:WI members. It was a celebration to remember.
Jane Robinson said of the event, “It was such a lovely welcoming and fun evening. It gives me tingles to be involved with the WI at such events. These ladies truly are a ‘force to be reckoned with!’ They really are an inspirational movement.”
The evening was also a very special event for Middlesex as HA:WI were the first WI in the county to receive the Centenary baton, which has been working its way around the country for the last year. The WI Centenary Baton started on its travels around all 69 WI Federations in January 2014, at Llanfairpwll, in Wales, which was the village where the first WI opened, and will finish at the Royal Albert Hall for the National Federation of Women’s Institutes Annual Meeting in June. Inside the baton is a memory stick, on which every Federation has put 12 photographs to represent their group.
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