Sheena Landgraf, our Federation Treasurer, will be running treasurer workshops in February and March, aimed at helping with preparing your annual accounts.
Are Surrey’s dormice in danger? Tips on helping wildlife by Rosemary Horton
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Starting on Page 14 of April’s SWIN you will find some fascinating tales from your WI meetings
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What happens to your waste when you bin it? Includes shocking facts about the way we waste some of our waste.
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Feed yourself and the bees as well – Michelle Ernoult’s tips on planting to keep the bees happy and provide you with food.
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The Vixens’ powerful pennants spell it out, Enough is Enough – the story behind the pennants naming the women murdered since Sarah Everard was killed in March 2021
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APRIL 19 is the closing date for applications for the £400 bursary offered by Surrey Wildlife Trust towards the £490 cost of training as a Level 2 Forest School Assistant.
The course takes place over four days on May 9-10 and June 13-14 this year at Nower Wood Educational Nature Reserve at Leatherhead.
Participants should be over 18 with some experience of working with young people or adults — youth workers, teaching assistants or teachers, for example. They will have to pay the balance of £90 and in addition they must:
Be DBS checked;
Attend four days of theory and practice;
Be able to assist with the planning and delivery of three Forest School sessions;
Complete a workbook of evidence.
The course commitment is approximately 60 hours. For full details see last month’s magazine (back copies available on MyWI).
To apply, write or email the Federation office with your name, address, phone number and name of your WI, stating why you are applying for the bursary, your experience of working within the community and the qualities you are able to bring to this role.
Applicants will be shortlisted by the Federation and may then be interviewed by a member of the Surrey Wildlife Trust staff.
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BY the time you read this we should know (or be about to be informed) which resolution* has been chosen from your January selection for debate at the NFWI Annual Meeting in June. It will be presented to members, usually at their May meeting, in order that everyone has the opportunity to discuss it.
It will be necessary to find someone from within each WI, not necessarily a committee member (or it could be more than one person), to present the chosen resolution to the members and lead the discussion on it.
There will be plenty of useful information and suggested references to help them on MyWI. In addition to these resources, there will be three resolutions workshops, one at SFWI headquarters and one at St Mary’s, Fetcham, and an online session to assist in the preparation of the presentation of the resolution to your WI. We recommend that all NFWI annual meeting delegates attend one of these as well as anyone who is presenting the resolution to their WI.
A delegate will have been chosen to represent your WI at the Annual Meeting. If she is not from within your own WI, you may wish to invite her to this meeting, so that she gets a feel for the mood of your WI and how members view the chosen resolution.
At the end of your WI’s deliberations, all full members will be asked to vote by secret ballot for or against the resolution and the result of this vote will be communicated to your delegate. The delegate does not need to know how many votes were cast, just the majority vote outcome. If there is more than one resolution to vote on, each must have a vote for/against. The resolutions would not be either/or, each will be considered.
Resolutions meetings and debates can be quite intense, so it is useful to have a light-hearted activity to round things off, such as bingo or a beetle drive.
Even if your delegate doesn’t come to your Resolution Meeting, she will need to be informed of the decision within your WI and also whether she will be given “discretion.”
This means that if, at the Annual Meeting, it is decided to vary the wording of the resolution, she will still be able to vote on your WI’s behalf. Without discretion she can only vote on your behalf if the resolution wording remains exactly as it was originally presented to and voted on by your WI. It is very rare for the wording of a resolution to be changed as a result of the debate at the Annual Meeting, but it has happened.
Finally, after the Annual Meeting, delegates will need to present a report on the proceedings to the WIs that they were representing
* On occasions two resolutions have been shortlisted. It may be less onerous to have different members presenting these.
By Carole Hurlestone-Clarke, WI Adviser
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HELP US TO FIND MORE SPEAKERS
WE are delighted that auditions are returning, and we know from our previous audience attendance just how much you enjoy them. It’s the ideal opportunity to meet other WI members, experience new and exciting speakers, and to help plan your programme or a special WI occasion.
Sadly, we have a very limited number of speakers on our list waiting to audition and need your help urgently.
If you have booked and enjoyed a good speaker and they are not already in the Yearbook, please ask if they would be prepared to audition to join our list of entertaining and informative approved speakers.
If they agree, please complete the confidential speakers feedback form, adding their name, address and contact details, and I will do the rest.
The form is available on the SFWI website, or please drop me an email, and I will forward one to you.
If we are unable to increase our prospective speaker applications, it is more than likely we will have to stop audition events, which would be such a shame for us all.
Thank you for your help.
Sally Digby, auditions@surreyfedwi.org.uk
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April’s Surrey WI News is now available for you to read online.
In this month’s edition there is plenty of interesting reading including: Roll of Horror from Surrey Vixens, Resolutions, review of recent meetings and much more.
It is available to view on your phone, tablet or computer via Flipsnack@ April Surrey WI News.
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