Bish bash bosh! Updated our Facebook events with the next four themes of our #BookClub: 🔥 Sept: #BannedBooks 🎃 Oct: #AllHallowsRead (started by Neil Gaiman and still observed by us) 🌗 Nov: Just A Phase (books from phases of your life) 🎬 Jan: Adaptations (TV, film, radio)

Happy 108th Birthday to Women's Institute ! This #WIDay we are pleased to be working with such a great activist organisation on our #WomensGrassrootsActivism network. As this membership card c.1921 shows, the WI have been committed 'To do all the good we can' for over a century!

The first Women's Institute meeting took place #OnThisDay in 1915, set up during WW1 to help revitalise rural communities and encourage women across the country to get involved with growing and preserving food. [Photo: The Women’s Institute Memorial at the Arboretum]

Happy 108th Birthday to Women's Institute! 🥳 We’ve had some fantastic guests (pictured below), but the best thing about our WI is the emotional connection we make with each other. You always have a friendly group of people to look forward to.

We dooo! 😃 Fantastic work that captures the spirit of everything the WI is about 👏👏👏

Where do you go for your dose of urban nature? 🦋 There are good reasons for making more space for nature around where we live. Can urban rewilding improve city life? Find out 👇 nhm.ac.uk/discover/why-w…

Incase you didn’t know (as I didn’t until about 2 second ago!), ADHD UK hosts regular online events. I want to go to them all.

Good things come in threes… 👀

This looks like one for our watch-alongs to get us talking 😳

We’re talking 🚫 #BannedBooks 🚫 at on Zoom tonight! These 5 are from my shelf: 3 banned from schools in the USA; 1 on the silencing of women; and 1 that is very 😳😱🙄 in my own social circle. None of these books have made my final choice, though! Join in to find out.

Our event with musician and storyteller Anna Soko Mudeka is TOMORROW! That's Tuesday 3rd of October at 8pm. Tickets are £5 from Eventbrite. All money from ticket sales will go to Anna. Link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-… If you can’t make it on the night, we’ll send you a recording 🙂

I always notice mistakes *after* I have sent emails out 🤦‍♀️ For members, that last link is not supposed to be a link to a YouTube video. You now have a bonus link to the trailer of Anna Mudeka’s play, though 😂 Enjoy! 😂

Wow, what an amazing evening last night! Thank you Anna Soko Mudeka, your power and voice lit up the night!

Tonight on Zoom: it’s our post-event catch up! We’ll be talking best bits, plus delving into how we can incorporate #BlackHistoryMonth into our events calendar throughout the year. The link is in the October newsletter!

Our very own Kate Metcalf, @wen_uk Co-director speaking at Women's Institute #WIClimateConf today. Great to be collectively exploring the importance of women’s climate action and the gendered impacts of the climate crisis 👇🏾

These were wonderful discussions Women's Institute It’s always a good day when you spend time with people who want to see a better future and are ready to be part of the solution. ECIU Black Seeds Network - Creative Connex Climate Outreach #ClimateAction #PeopleFixingTheWorld

In celebration of the autumn harvest we are sharing wonderful recipes from the Women's Institute. This month we have served up spicy tomato soup, calming carrot soup, French apple flan and blackberry and apple pie. 👉 mycoronationgarden.org/recipes #MyCoronationGarden

Ruth Hibbard is our #vampire expert, and a curator at the V&A Museum. With a special focus on sexuality, #gender, and #Victorian anxieties, we’ll be delving into #Dracula’s world. Join us online here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sex-gender-a… All ticket buyers will get a recording of the event.

We’re on Zoom right now and learning about the Pankhurst family. I had no idea that Sylvia was an artist and was alive in 1960. It’s incredible how close this history really is. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…