In October we had an evening of baking. Lesley organised a demonstration where she showed us how to make Madeleines and Lemon and Blueberry Teacakes. In true Blue Peter fashion she had prepared some earlier to pop […]

Our September meeting was a Fairtrade evening hosted by our member Sandra, who does sterling work on Fairtrade in Hackney, and Gilbert Smyth, who is Fairtrade Champion for Hackney Council. Fairtrade Fortnight was in September, and the […]

Our August meeting was a fun-filled music quiz. Thanks to Natalie and Sheila for organising the music, questions and prizes.  We had a lovely time reminiscing about the musicals and film and learning a few new facts […]

Bring, Show and Tell We had a lovely meeting in June, sharing treasured memories via possessions and images. We had a picture showing four generations of women from the same family, one of a son all dressed […]

This month we were creating jewellery from an exciting selection of beads and bits. We had colour, we had sparkle, we made bracelets, we made earrings. We had biscuits, we had wine, we had fun! With thanks […]

Our February meeting was a lovely, gentle exploration of poetry and life, led by Natalie. A poet herself – her book can be purchased from her website – she read a selection of her poems, talked about […]

For our January meeting we had a chair yoga session with Alice, an Iyengar teacher: you can see more about her at https://www.aliceyoga.co.uk/ It was a very good session, stretching backs, necks, arms and shoulders to ease […]

Our Christmas social was a festive treat! Thank you to everyone for making it a special evening. We were visited by Sankta Lucia as 13 December is her saint’s day in Sweden, when she visits, dressed in […]

We had a lovely evening making and decorating Christmas trees, courtesy of Sarah. Very simple, but very effective, and I managed to do it without gluing myself to the table. It was great fun, with every tree […]

Our October meeting focused on climate change, but keeping it fun with games: snakes and ladders, and climate change bingo. Left that tap running? Down the snake you go; a hippo in your cistern – then up […]

We all had such a treat for our September meeting! Lesley showed us how to make two kinds of pastry – a shortcrust that she uses for savoury quiches and a sweet pastry – and brought a […]

For our August meeting we had a very light-hearted quiz, with questions carefully curated by Joan to make sure there was a subject for everyone. We all learned some interesting facts from the questions we couldn’t answer […]

In line with this year’s WI resolution, our latest meeting was a short illustrated talk about the causes and routes of pollution reaching our local waterways and what can be done to address it, followed by a […]

For the June meeting we decided to focus on famous or infamous people from Islington and Hackney As well as Dame Ninette de Valois and Alice Owen we discovered there have been many people throughout history associated […]

The May meeting combined our Annual Meeting with a celebration of the Coronation of King Charles. The AM part of the meeting was for the membership to accept the certified accounts for the year 2022 – 2023 […]

It’s a well established tradition at N1WI that our November meeting is dedicated to Christmas Crafting. This year’s main craft will be Christmas Crackers. November’s meeting is always well received and popular, we welcome visitors to this active […]

This month’s meeting is all about Autumn and October festivals around the world. The committee have been plugging away researching information and activities on a different Autumn Festivals that takes places somewhere. I hope that when we are together and learning about […]

This month’s meeting is all about books. We want to dig into your most influential books; we all have them they could have been read once and had an impact or ones returned to over and over again. We are looking […]

The planned out-of-hall meeting for August is a guided tour of by Christine of the Hackney Tree Nursery followed by a talk about the work of the Tree Musketeers, a group of volunteers who plant and care for […]

July’s Meeting is a members request trivia board games meeting, we will have millennium Trivial Pursuit, and food and drink. We look forward to you joining us. Meeting Details: When: 26th July Where: St. James’ Hall, Packington Street […]

Swedish Midsummer Celebration, food demonstration and practical June’s Meeting is a chance to experience a small part of Scandinavia’s Midsummer celebrations with a demonstration and a practical of a Smörgåstårta. Amongst the sill (pickled herring), gradvadlax and […]

May’s meeting is all about celebration and social. We are catering a Jubilee themed tea with a Competition and a Quiz. Will all prizes be won by the same item? or will it turn out that we have […]

We have a slightly different structure for April’s Meeting to accommodate our charity requirement to hold an Annual Meeting. The Annual Meeting will be held from 7-7:30 pm after which the doors will open for visitors and […]

A number of members told us they would like to do more baking and cooking. Our meeting this month is going to be a mixture of social chat; pastry demonstration and the chance to improve your knitting […]

Meeting Details: When: 22nd February Start: 7pm Where: St. James’ Hall, Packington Street

We are very excited about our January meeting. A professional dance teacher, Sandy will be joining us to shake out our January Blues and get us moving for the new year. The meeting will be taking place […]