Full details of the Bookclub are available on the Our Clubs page and details of our latest and previous books are available here. ‘Crossing the River’ by Caryl Phillips 4 September 2018 – 7.30pm (Please note the change for date from 20
EDWI Bookclub: 23 July 2018 – ‘The Dry’ by Jane Harper
EDWI 2018: Event Schedule
EDWI December 2018: Committee Vacancies and Collections Reminder
EDWI Make & Do: 12 December 2018 – “Top Secret Project 2”
We’ve Been Invited to a Christmas Party!
Get together with members from other SE London WIs!
EDWI Bookclub 17 December 2018 – “Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman
EDWI November 2018: Campaigns Manager Vacancy and Collections Reminder
EDWI Make & Do: 14 November 2018 – “Top Secret Project”
EDWI November 2018: Stand Up Comedy with Esther Manito
EDWI Bookclub Review – “Dear Mrs Bird” by A.J. Pearce
EDWI October 2018: Decoupage Tealight Holders – Instructions and Pictures
EDWI Bookclub 28 November 2018 **Date Change**- “Falling Leaves” by Adeline Yen Mah
EDWI Make & Do: 10 October 2018 – Mixed Projects
EDWI October 2018: Red Box Project Update, Campaigns Manager Vacancy and Collections Reminder
EDWI October 2018: Decoupage Tealight Holders Workshop
EDWI Bookclub Review – “Crossing the River” by Caryl Phillips
EDWI September 2018: All the photos from Look Fabulous Forever
EDWI Bookclub EDWI Bookclub 29 October 2018 – “The Luminaries” by Eleanor Catton
My WI Culture Guide – How to Write a Poem
EDWI September 2018: UPDATE! Look Fabulous Forever
EDWI September 2018: Don’t Forget Our Foodbank and Red Box Project Collection!
My WI Floral Art Project – A Hand Tied Bouquet
EDWI Make & Do: 12 September 2018 – Silk Scarf Cushions & Hama Beads
EDWI September 2018: An Evening with a Royal Butler
EDWI Bookclub Review – “The Dry” by Jane Harper
EDWI August 2018: History Walk in Dulwich – Pictures, Links and Other Walks with Lulu
EDWI Bookclub 24 September 2018 – “Dear Mrs Bird” by A.J. Pearce
Walking Netball with the Forest Hill WI
EDWI Make & Do: 8 August 2018 – Silk Scarf Cushion Covers
EDWI August 2018: Alternative Foodbank and Red Box Project Collection Points
Did You Know We Are Now Open To New Members?
EDWI August 2018: History Walk in Dulwich
EDWI July 2018: “Tomorrows World” – Further Viewing and Pictures
Eat-Your-Heart-Out Tom Cruise – Recipes and Photos from our Cocktail Making Masterclass
EDWI Bookclub: The Review – “Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life” by Georgina Ferry
EDWI July 2018: Don’t Forget Our Foodbank and Red Box Project Collection!
Make & Do: 11 July 2018 – Even More Hama Beads!
EDWI July 2018: Tomorrow’s World
My WI Science Experiments – Not Just for Kids!
Why Everybody Really Should Be Talking About Jamie – Theatre Review
EDWI June 2018: Summer Picnic and Croquet – The Results and Pictures!
EDWI Bookclub: The Review – “In the Kitchen” by Monica Ali
Have You Signed Up to My WI Yet? (And Did You Know One of Our Members is a Contributor?)
National Member Competition – The Lady Denman Cup (Writing)
Make & Do – June 2018: Lampshade Making
EDWI June 2018: Summer Picnic and Croquet
EDWI Bookclub: 25 June 2018 – ‘Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life’ by Georgina Ferry
EDWI Bookclub: 29 May 2018 – ‘In the Kitchen’ by Monica Ali
Meet Our New 2018/2019 President & Committee
EDWI Bookclub: Previous Books
EDWI May 2018: Annual General Meeting and First Aid Training
EDWI April 2018: Palestinian Charity Talk and Hummus Making
Last Call for Subscriptions!
EDWI March 2018: Cocktail Making Masterclass
EDWI Tote Bags – Just £2.50
The law on plastic bags is set to change, with the 5p charge now extending from large supermarkets to encompass shops of every size. So with that in mind, we are selling our EDWI cloth tote bags at our meetings for
EDWI February 2018: Essential Oils & Aromatherapy
Subscription Reminder!
EDWI January 2018: Annual Quiz Night
A Decade in Dulwich
The Dulwich Diverter, a fab local paper, is always jam-packed with really interesting stories from round and about SE21/22/24. The latest issue is no exception, but is made even more special for us in particular as it has a write
Help Local People in Crisis
Southwark Foodbank As always, we will be incredibly grateful for any donations of groceries for Southwark Foodbank that you can bring along to the meeting. They currently need tinned fruit (400gms), coffee, rice (500g), UHT milk (1 litre) and rice pudding. Please
Denman Bursary Winners
Denman Bursary Last month, Tricia Graham and Sarah Armstrong were the lucky winners of the draw to win our bursary for a two-day course at Denman College to the value of £250 as well as £50 towards travel expenses. All members attending four
Denman Bursary Draw
At our meeting in October we will also be drawing the names of the two lucky winners of our bursary for a two day course at Denman College to the value of £250 as well as £50 towards travel expenses. All members attending
Members’ Survey 2017
EDWI August 2017 : Lawn Bowls – The Wet Weather Plan
Wet Weather Plan We are looking forward to seeing you for our Lawn Bowls event today. If it rains as currently forecast, Martin, our host will run a Local General Knowledge Quiz in the Club House bar. Pimms and refreshments
Its Resolution Time!
Update from 2016 AGM
2016 Resolutions – Update
2016 Resolutions
EDWI December 2015: Rivoli Ballroom Christmas Party – The Photos!
EDWI 2015 – What a year!
EDWI December 2015: Rivoli Ballroom Christmas Dance
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Fill in your members survey
It’s that time of year again. Every 12 months we invite, you, our members to give us feedback on East Dulwich WI and the events & services we provide. Fill in your members survey here We look forward to hearing
EDWI October 2015: Furniture Upcycling with Muck N Brass
When: Wednesday 7th October Time: 7.30pm Place: Upstairs @ EDT After 15 years as a nail technician with a portfolio including editorials for Vogue, Harpers, Grazia, Designing for top fashion houses like Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and movies such as
How To… Finish your fascinator
Following our wonderful evening with John from JWH Millinery, here are to instructions for finishing off your creations. Freeform Freeform Sinamay Fascinator Looped Basic sinamay fascinator We’d love to share photos of your finished fascinators so
EDWI June 2015: Screen Printing with Captured on the Rye
On Wednesday 3 June we will welcome Captured on the Rye to our meeting. They will give us a talk about screen printing and the opportunity to design a personalised screen print on a tea towel for you to take home. Tea towels will be provided
EDWI May 2015: All the news from the AGM
As well as all the important necessary AGM business in order to keep us all official, we shared some pretty exciting plans with you all too. Not only do we say a teary goodbye and HUGE thank you to committee
EDWI April 2015: Guerrilla Gardening with Richard Reynolds
We will be picking up the trowels and planting up bulbs and seeds in April! When: Wednesday 1st April Start: 7.30pm Meet: Goose Green Bring (if you can): Any spare seeds/small plants Gardening gloves Trowel Torch Weather proof
EDWI March 2015: House of Colour with Helen White
Did you know that most of us wear 15% of our clothes 85% of the time because instinctively we feel much better in some than in others. To help us learn why this is, Helen White’s expertise and training is
EDWI February 2015: The Sugar Girls
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End is a bestselling work of narrative non-fiction based on interviews with women who worked in Tate & Lyle’s East End factories in Silvertown from the
EDWI January 2015: Annual Quiz
Happy New Year! We hope you had a lovely break and we are excited to welcome you to the NFWI Centenary Year! We have planned an exciting range of events for the coming year from millinery to street art, guerilla
EDWI: December 2014: Christmas Ceilidh
Our December meeting is party time! We will be dancing the night away with a live Ceilidh band and caller! For those of you who haven’t been to a Ceilidh before, its a traditional Celtic folk dance and is tonnes
Help the Southwark Foodbank this Christmas
As you know we have supported PECAN the Southwark foodbank based in Peckham for the last year. The ladies popped over at our November meeting to give us some more information on what our donations mean to the foodbank and
EDWI November 2014: Autumnal Centre Piece and Mini Christmas Market
As the days get shorter and the nights longer we all know winter is firmly on its way. But don’t worry, we have an action packed end to the year planned for you. In response to your feedback, we have decided
NFWI: The Centenary Baton visits the West Kent Federation (that’s us!)
The baton, launched in Anglesey where the first WI meeting was held in the UK in 1915, will now travel throughout the 69 federations in England, Wales and the Islands to celebrate the links of friendship and community developed through
EDWI October 2014: Dangerous Women
On Wednesday 1st October we return to our home at the East Dulwich Tavern for an evening with literary agent Clare Conville and writer and actress Sarah-Jane Lovett. Sharing anecdotes from their book, Dangerous Women: The Guide to Modern Life,
EDWI Dance with Diversity
Last summer, East Dulwich WI members Tina Hampson, Angela Burgess, Fiona Nott, Sarah Pylas, Pam Martin and our EDWI President, Anna Gryce, were invited to take part in the hit SKY 1 TV show, Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew.
EDWI September 2014: Features of Victorian Terraces walk with Brian Green
On Wednesday 3 September we are again heading outdoors for a fascinating event, a guided walk with local historian and author Brian Green. Brian will be giving us an insight into some of features of Victorian houses and properties in East Dulwich.
EDWI August 2014: Croquet Fun with Pictures
Our August meeting saw us meeting up at Dulwich Sports Club for a game of Croquet and a Summer picnic. Lucky for us the Sun came out and stayed out! Much better than last year. In True WI style, we
EDWI August 2014: Croquet & Picnic
At our meeting next week on Wednesday 13 August 2014, we will be returning to Dulwich Croquet Club near Herne Hill Station for a picnic and croquet. The club is located at Dulwich Sports Club, Giant Arches Road, London, SE24 9HB. It
EDWI: July 2014 – Chocolate Tasting with Melange
Our evening with award winning chocolatier Isabelle from Melange was a tasting sensation, both tantalising to the tastebuds and an enjoyable and informative experience. Isabelle was a very interesting and knowledgeable speaker and we hope that all the members, and guests,
EDWI June 2014: Sewing Skills with The White Room Pictures
Our June meeting saw us learning Sewing Skills with the lovely ladies from The White Room last week. Nicky and Donna brought along their sewing machines and a host of embellishing bits and bobs to help us sew and transform a calico
EDWI June 2014: Sewing Skills with The White Room
EDWI April 2014 – Bread Making with Brick House Bakery
We are super excited about meeting Fergus Jackson next month, owner of the Brick House bakery, recently named one of London’s Top 5 Bakeries and whose Peckham Rye loaf was awarded the equivalent of an Oscar! Fergus will give an
EDWI: March 2014 – Wine Tasting with Toasted
Our next event, which is a wine tasting kindly arranged by wine lovers Cindy and Dotty, will be held on Wednesday 5 March at 7.30pm above the EDT as usual. We are very pleased to announce that as a result
EDWI February 2014 – Health & Wellbeing Event
We are welcoming a number of local businesses and individuals on Wednesday 5 February for our Health and Wellbeing event, kindly arranged by Ciaran Dance and Sarah Pylas. Our guests will be offering short taster sessions, demonstrations and advice, including: Theresa
EDWI: January 2014: Annual Quiz Night
We are getting quizzical on Wednesday 8 January for our annual quiz night, kindly arranged by Deborah and Kirsten, and hosted by our marvellous Quizmaster, Peter Hillyard. Teams will be made up of no more than six people and questions will be