Hello and a very happy new year! This month (Tuesday 31st!) we’ve got just the thing to warm you up! We are delighted to be welcoming Nikki Santilli back (website and twitter!) after having such a brilliant […]

Tuesday December 13th 7pm to 10pm Come and join us for our Christmas party, in the amazing venue The Ship of Adventures. The Ship of Adventures is a bookshop, gift-shop, café and events space run by The […]

Tuesday November 29th 7pm to 9pm. This month after our usual social half hour, we will be getting into the festive spirit with crafts. We will be making a selection of craft items including gift boxes, felt […]

Tuesday 25th October, 7pm to 9pm This month we will be joined by Richard France from the charity Action on Hearing Loss. He will be joined by his interpreter, and he will be teaching some basic sign […]

Tuesday 27th September – 7pm to 9pm Please note the venue change for this month’s meeting – we will be at Wynford Community Hall! Risinghall Street, behind Saint Silas church.   We are delighted to welcome the […]

Bowling at Rowans – Tuesday 30th 7pm This month we are going on an adventure out of our usual hall and going bowling at Rowans! A few things to mention about the evening: We’re meeting at the […]

Tuesday 26th July 7pm This month we’re going to be making mosaic coasters with Sally Kendall. All materials will be supplied and one coaster will be free for members but we ask visitors to pay a £5 […]

For our June meeting, N1 WI is delighted to welcome Phill Jupitus, a comedian, actor, writer, and much more. The meeting will start at 7pm on Tuesday 28th of June. Tickets are available via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/n1-wi-june-meeting-phill-jupitus-tickets-26022974417 The […]

We’re having a member of the Women’s Equality Party come and talk to us for this month’s meeting on Tuesday 31st May – tomorrow! From this month, we’re trying a slight change to how our monthly meetings […]

Join us on Tuesday April 26th for our Annual General Meeting. We’ll hear how our WI has done over the last year, have a discussion about and vote on the two selected resolutions, and elect the new […]

Join us on March 29th for an evening with Geoff White. An award-winning television news journalist, Geoff White’s exclusives have covered everything from fraud in the internet dating industry to the shadowy world of Russian cybercrime gangs. […]

We’ll be having some fun with felt for this month’s meeting on Tuesday 23rd Feb making your very own felt heart badge. You can proudly display your love for your WI!! The bar will be open and […]

January’s meeting is an active one! We will be hearing from a female Taekwondo instructor who will tell us all about the art of this sport, give a bit of a demonstration, and we will have a […]

Please note the earlier date for December’s meeting! December 8th! This month’s meeting is our Christmas party and as we thought most people are a bit busy on 29th of December our meeting will take place on December […]

This Month’s Meeting… we get our Christmas Craft on! Nothing says Season’s Greetings like succulents! Christmas Cactus Craft…. Ok so perhaps they are not that traditional…but then we are not a ‘traditional’ WI so this month we […]

We have had a last minute change of plans for October’s meeting, unfortunately due to illness (get well soon!), so instead of having a taste of Portugal we will be playing games of all sorts – card […]

Join us this month as we forget the Autumnal chill in the air and indulge ourselves in a taste of Portugal. We will be hearing from the owner of our local Portuguese deli Ferreira in Camden. Famed […]

We are celebrating 9 years of N1 WI and 100 years of the WI with a big birthday bonanza – featuring all things WI! Cake, jam, flowers, crafting, calendar girls and bunting – all with a bit […]

This month we are meeting at the gates to Islington Green (just outside Waterstones bookshop) between 6:45 – 7:15 and we will be setting off on a scavenger hunt and mystery tour with a touch of challenge […]

Martin Bentham is the Home Affairs Editor of the London Evening Standard. You may also recognise him from his appearances on BBC news and Sky news, where he regularly appears reviewing the papers. Meeting with us he […]

We heard all about the company from founder Danni, how and why she set up the business, including a brief history of tea and information on the different types of tea. Then we got down to the […]

We went on an outing to the Feminist Library, where we had a guided tour of their archive collection of Women’s Liberation Movement literature. Their second-wave (1960s-1990s) material is especially expansive.

We had our Annual General Meeting, where we discussed the WI’s 2015 resolution: ‘Failing to care – assessment of need in long-term care’, elected our new committee and president, and had a clothing/accessories swish. Members brought up […]

We were joined by Miss Ballooniverse who injected colour, glamour and fun into our meeting with favourite characters, outrageous costumes, elegant jewellery and caricatures – all made from balloons of course!

Tim Newton joined us from the Suffolk council records office to discuss how he completed his own family tree and how best to track down your own weird and wonderful ancestors.

We had the pleasure of Jeanie – a qualified yoga instructor (and N1 WI member!) showing us some yoga moves and stretches that we can all work into our daily life to put a spring in our […]

Evan Davis joined us to discuss a wide range of subjects as varied as Russell Brand, the BBC, elections, Dragons’ Den, interviewing techniques and woolly whippets! Evan Davis was the BBC’s Economics Editor from 2001- 2008, following […]

Louise C showed off her talents by teaching us how to lino print. We learnt how to cut our own designs into lino and print them, and  everyone was able to take their prints home so they […]

We learnt a little more about the committee members (and lots of random facts) when they hosted quiz rounds on their specialist subject. With lots of time for teams to debate the answers, it proved to be very […]

In August we went retro at Rowan’s tenpin bowling.