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Join us at Fifty Seven Kitchen & bar for a spooky funfilled night including a four course meal and raffle! This is a Dulwich WI fundraising production in association with Suzanne James - for more information email [email protected] Click on the attachments for booking details, menu and raffle details!

For The Love of Scrubs is a national campaign set up by sewers all over the country to supply our absolutely phenomenal NHS with scrubs, laundry bags and caps to make up for the shortfall of PPE available through other channels. There are sub-groups all over the country who need your support! Could I please, please ask all of you to share my post so that we can spread the message far and wide! Your contributions, however small, help us make a difference - please give what you can. Just click on the link below to find out more! https://www.gofundme.com/f/scrubs-for-kings?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

Hi there, the second WI in East Dulwich is now up and running! Our meetings are held on the second Monday of the month at the Dulwich Constitutional Club, 33 East Dulwich Grove, SE22. (almost opposite East Dulwich Hospital) Bar opens at 7 for drinks and closes at 9 Meeting is 7.30 - 9.30 Most ladies start arriving just after 7pm to get a drink, some nibbles and get comfy before the meeting starts. Membership is ?41 per year and you would be most welcome to come along three times as a non member for a fee of ?3.00 per meeting plus any other material costs ie if there is a 'make'n'take' and then join if you?d like to. Currently we have around 60 members and our maximum capacity is 130 members! We have only just begun so it?s all a great big new exciting learning curve, and I'm really proud and honoured to have been elected President. The newly elected Committee has been beavering away behind the scenes and we already have a wide variety of events already planned for the coming year, so I'm sure there will be something to interest everyone. Members are welcome to come along (guests are welcome) to just socialise and have a bit of 'me time' if they don't wish to attend the event being held. We have a separate cosy seating area set up specifically for this. At our meeting on 12th March we plan to mark International Women?s Day with Second World War coder Barbara Hall MBE, as our guest speaker. The 95-year-old, who is also Britain?s longest serving crossword compiler, will be interviewed by Phil Reed OBE, the former director of the Churchill War Rooms. Barbara will talk about her time as a coder in the Wrens during the Second World War as well as her 36-year career as the crossword puzzles editor for The Sunday Times. South London local Barbara got her first contract to write crosswords aged just 14, when she won a national newspaper competition. She then served in the Wrens during World War Two at Great Yarmouth and Borstal, coding messages for the Navy and reading the weather reports transmitted in code to all Navy ships. So why not come along on the 12th March and give us try, relax with a drink and cake (of course) and, hopefully, make some new friends. For more info please email me - [email protected]

Hi there, The second Women?s Institute in East Dulwich is now up and running! I?d just like to take this opportunity to thank all those ladies from the ED forum who expressed interest in a new WI, who supported us through the setup period and eventually joined as members. Hat?s off to you ladies! If you?d like more info please head on over to the ?What?s on in East Dulwich? section of the forum. We are soooo much more than Jam and Jerusalem!

Hiya, Could all ladies who have registered interest in joining the new WI or who attended the meeting on 13th November please check your emails and junk email boxes. Emails have gone out for you to put forward a name for the new WI and an invite for the first Xmas Make and take. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Hiya, No you're not - but I need an email address to send you details of our meeting to be held on 13th November when an advisor from the NFWI will be coming along to explain about the WI as well as a few other activities we have planned for the evening. Regards Sue

Also if you signed up and haven't received the email invitation please let me know as there seems to be a problem with some email accounts again. Ta muchly.

Hi all, All ladies who signed up for the new WI please check your emails and junk emails - the invites for the first meeting have just gone out. Looking forward to meeting you all.

Does anyone know of the a good place to get your nails done in ED? Tried the one in East Dulwich Road and they're really unfriendly, didn't like it in there at all.

Thanks to everyone who registered interest in a new WI. I was going to close the list on Friday however, we've now reached the allocated limit so I'm closing the list early. Thanks to everyone for your interest, I'll be in touch soon.

Yes you can - I need an email address as we are group emailing everyone with setup progress. We only have 5 spaces left and then I will be closing the list. Regards Sue

Anyone else having problems with hotmail today? It was bad yesterday and then this morning seemed to be working again but around midday it stopped working again.

Thanks to the amazing response for a 2nd ED WI to be set up I am closing the email membership list this Friday. If any ladies out there would still like to register their interest in joining a 2nd WI please pm me before Friday so that I can add you to the list. We only have a few more spacesleft and I would hate for anyone to miss out.If everyone who has registered their interest in joining actually becomes a member of the new WI we will start the new year with a full membership and have to start our own waiting list. Many thanks to everyone who has signed up!

Hi everyone, just a quick update to let you know that we are fast approaching the cut off cap for the 2nd ED WI mailing list. If anyone is still interested in joining a second ED WI could you please pm me your details so that I can add you to the list. Thanks to everyone who has already signed up, the response has been amazing!

Just wanted to say thank you for the amazing response I have had and to let you all know that the mailing list is growing at an incredible rate (I never dreamed it would be so popular!). Once it reaches 100 I think I will have to close the list until we are up and running otherwise we will be over subscribed before we start! But it's a nice problem to have! Thanks everyone!

First of all I would just like to say how overwhelmed and chuffed I am by the response to my earlier thread. I've started a new thread about this as the other one is getting rather long! Could ALL ladies who would like to register their interest in the new WI group please private message me with contact details as we're hoping to have our first meet towards the end of September. I know a lot of you have already done this but several ladies have said they are interested but I have no way of contacting them. Many thanks.

OK Ladies! - I had my meeting with the existing ED WI - all very positive! Could all of you who would like to register their interest in joining please private message me with their contact details! We are looking to hold an event towards the end of September beginning of October. I am soooo pleased!!!!!

Just thought you'd all like to know that I have a meeting with the existing ED WI tomorrow evening to discuss the possibility of setting up another ED WI under their umbrella. Fingers crossed everyone! and watch this space.

Ok, I have emailed the existing ED WI and am awaiting their response. Watch this space!!!!!

Wow! What a great response! I'll do as Sarahg suggested and contact the existing ED WI to see if we can sort something out. Watch this space!

Hi all, I contacted the East Dulwich Community centre directly and although they have no craft or quilting club there at the moment they were more than happy for one to start up. So if you're interested please let me know. Thanks

Hi all, Did a bit of research on how to form a WI. We need 8 interested parties, 3 of whom must be willing to act as chairman, secretary and treasurer. I f any of you are still interested please let me know and I'll take this further. Thanks

Well if there isn't one maybe we should start one???

The garden centre next to Dulwich railway station - the one near Redpost Hill can't remember whether it's West or North Dulwich - they normally have a huge stock and they don't charge for them.

Does anyone know whether or not there is a quilting group or club in the ED or surrounding areas? Failing that are there any craft clubs out there?