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Chaddesley Corbett WI is a thriving group of around 70 members who are friendly and enthusiastic. We meet together each month to enjoy demonstrations and talks on a variety of subjects given by experienced speakers. Other activities include our craft group for the creative, a book club for those who enjoy reading, darts for the energetic and the lunch club for all who enjoy eating and talking!
For the more adventurous, Worcestershire Federation provide groups to cater for art, public affairs, sport, science, drama, home economics, regular outings to places of interest and holidays in the UK and abroad. There is sure to be something to interest you.
Do pay us a visit and find out more. A warm welcome awaits you at Chaddesley Corbett WI.
Have a look through our website to see more about the sort of things we get up to. To contact us and get directions to our meeting place please go to our Contact Us page.
2025
meetings & events to look forward to
June Meeting
Wednesday 4th June 2025
Chaddesley Corbett Village Hall at 7.30pm
Colin Millet will be talking about The Wonder of Worcestershire, a City Heritage Success Story. Discover why Worcester Porcelain existed in Worcester for over 250 years.
Competition: Made in Worcester
June Book Club
Monday 9th June 2025
Sally's house at 7.30pm
We shall be discussing The Gardener by Sally Vickers.
June Lunch Club
Wednesday 11th June 2025
The Swan at Blakedown at 12.30pm
Come along and join us for lunch. Please put your name down for this event at the June Monthly Meeting.
June Craft Group
Wednesday 25th June 2025
Upstairs at Chaddesley Corbett Village Hall at 7.30pm
We shall be making a Felt Popper Purse please sign the list at the June Monthly Meeting if you wish to join us.
July Monthly Meeting
Wednesday 2nd July 2025
Chaddesley Corbett Village Hall at 7.30pm
Hidden Bournville by Bob Booth. Discover parts of Bournville that are still there but hidden as well as buildings and land lost in time.
Competition: Chocolate
July Ramble in Memory of Nora Kolada
Tuesday 8th July 2025
Meet at the Lychgate at 10am
This will be a flattish walk around the village of about 3 miles. Sadly Nora, who organised our monthly rambles for many years, died very recently. We are doing this walk in her memory and we are hoping that we may be able to start up our monthly walks again if there is enough interest.
Cakes/Help needed please for the following Chaddesley Corbett events for which our WI has been asked for help:
19th - 20th July - All Things Wise and Wonderful. Please would you lend craft items to display as this will be showing what we do as a WI. If you can load a craft item/man the stall please sign up.
9th August - Chaddesley Village Fete. Sign up sheet, cakes and help.
13th August - VJ Day. Sign up sheet, cakes only.
Planned Outings and Events during 2025
6th August - Visit to Hereford by car, sign up sheet available
27th August - Garden Party at Fold Court, sign up sheet available
5th November - Birthday Meeting, do we have any volunteers willing to organise this
More details to follow about these events at a later date.
Don't forget to look at our Programme, and Activities pages to see what else is happening during the year.
what are we doing in 2025?
Back in July 2021 we visited Morton Hall and some of our members purchased Iris root cuttings during their visit. Ann's cutting has thrived and this years blooms are larger than ever. The photo below shows how beautiful they are.
At our March Meeting we enjoyed a talk by John Butterworth who was a retired Newspaper Editor. We also celebrated the 90th Birthday of Barbara, one of our longstanding members.
In February we held our New Year Lunch at Bistrot Pierre in Kidderminster.
Our first meeting of 2025 was on January 1st. A select few attended for quick crafts - wool birds, gift boxes and felted cards plus we saw the Aurora Borealus outside the hall which was an exciting start to the year!
what did we get up to in 2024?
At the end of November over 30 of our members enjoyed a rather chilly day out at Tatton Park in Cheshire. The house was dressed for Christmas with a Wizard of Oz theme and there was also a craft fair with lots of ideas for Christmas presents.
At our November Craft Meeting members made a flight of these delicate Angels.
At our November meeting we celebrated our 104th Birthday with a fun Birthday party. This included a delicious cake made by Shirley, a creative summer hat competition won by Ruth and a most amusing presentation on the history of Punch and Judy with much audience participation.
In August we had a lovely Garden Party in the courtyard garden of our WI President's home in Chaddesley. Excellent company, home made food and the weather stayed kind to us.
We had wonderful weather for our August Book Club meeting.
In August members of our Craft Group visited Kidderminster Carpet Museum and spent an afternoon weaving.
Our members had a go at making Lavender Bottles at our July craft meeting. Here's a look at what we made.
Members visited Bournville at the beginning of July and enjoyed a delicious afternoon tea provided by a local WI.
Our members enjoyed doing some Quilling at our June craft meeting. Here's a look at the cards that we made.
Our members made Felt Elephant keyrings at our April craft meeting.
Look at these beautiful daffodils, made by the dextrous hands of the WI Craft Club at their March meeting. They look so real.
A Fun and Games Night was a great success for our February meeting. From Kurling to Jenga, hangman, connect 4, dominoes, quizzes and boggle, great merriment ensued and the members were VERY competitive.
We also had a trading stall and competitions table which raised money for the Autism Unit at Chaddesley Corbett Endowed Primary School and of course home baked cakes.
Our New Year lunch at Bistrot Pierre in Kidderminster was enjoyed by lots of our members.
what did we get up to in 2022?
Our December Meeting was a fun evening celebrating Christmas with the Worcestershire Ukulele Orchestra, eating mince pies and Christmas cake washed down with mulled wine.
At the November Craft Club, we made these cute felt robins and gnomes to hang on the Christmas Tree.
Our 102nd Birthday Party at our November Meeting was a great success with a fascinating talk from the 99-year-old Betty Webb speaking on her career at Bletchley Park. She also cut the cake and sold some of her books whilst joining us for a birthday drink and wartime cakes which were strangely rather good. We all had to avoid the leaking roof too after tonight's torrential rain!
A group of CCWI members and friends have been visiting Chaddesley Corbett School this year teaching school pupils to knit.
Last term they knitted squares to make a blanket which was donated to the school nursery. This term they are aiming to add to their knitting skills and making cats! We use the pattern that you can download here and hopefully all will easily be able to complete the finished article!
At our October Craft Club we had fun making hanging Christmas Ornaments using a selection of pebbles, wood and string. Thanks must go to Ann and Wendy for their clever ideas and guidance.
September Craft club was a jovial cookery demonstration of autumnal foods by our own Shirley Cadman. 20 members watched then enjoyed scrumptious venison crumble, pear and goats cheese salad, pork and apple cassoulet and a naughty but oh, so nice blackcurrant fool with home grown blackcurrants. A wonderful way to spend a cold dark evening.
Our visit to Envirosort at Worcester was very informative and interesting. We learned so much about recycling and its benefits.
The pupils at Chaddesley Corbett school have been knitting squares with assistance from some of our members. The squares helped to make the blanket picture below, which is now in the Reception classroom at the school.
Our summer outing was to Cirencester where the Civic Society took us on a guided walk, which was very worthwhile. Plenty of history, cafes and shops to enjoy.
At our June Craft Meeting members made Fabric Flowers.
On Saturday 4th June we ran a cake stall at the Chaddesley Corbett Village Fete which they were holding as part of their Platinum Jubilee Celebrations. We raised over £100 for the autism unit at Chaddesley Endowed Primary School.
At our June Meeting we held our WI Platinum Jubilee celebration for Her Majesty the Queen at Chaddesley Corbett Village Hall. This included a Royal Quiz, the Platinum Pudding, cakes, coronation chicken open rolls, jubilee raffle prizes, bunting, book marks and fizz to toast Her Majesty.
At our March Craft Meeting members made some lovely hanging Easter Decorations using a polystyrene egg shape as a base and scraps of material as a covering. Thanks to Anne and Wendy for organising the evening.
At our February Craft Meeting members enjoyed knitting little chicks. An amazing 180 have been knitted by members so far as part of the Cancer Research UK fund raising event this Easter. Each one raises a pound and we are still knitting them.....
what did we GeT up to in 2023?
At our Final Book Club Meeting of 2023 we discussed 'Keep Talking' by David Dimbleby. It was one of the lowest scoring books of the year but we still found plenty to chat about whilst enjoying Jackie's marvellous festive treats.
At our November Craft Meeting members had fun making Gonk and Clown Christmas tree decorations.
At our September Craft Meeting members learnt how to make glass votives. The results were lovely and the jars looked really effective when they were lit up as you can see below.
Our WI joined in with contributions to this year's Flower Festival in St Cassian's Church in Chaddesley Corbett, including birds and butterflies made by members.
We started a new monthly activity on Monday 18th September when we held a Darts evening at The Swan in Chaddesley Corbett. A fun evening was enjoyed by all.
Our WI annual summer trip this year was to Highgrove House gardens looking fabulously lush and green but no photos are permitted on the guided walk. A delicious lunch and plenty of plant and gift purchasing followed and a good time was had by all despite constant rain.
On a wet July evening Chaddesley Corbett WI craft group made Yarn Bowls. These are works in progress as they take at least 4 days to dry out.
We were fortunate to have a lovely dry, sunny afternoon for our Tea Party in July. There was a lovely range of home made food and lots of chat with friends.
A group of members from Chaddesley Corbett WI and Finstall Cross WI recently visited the Hay Festival and had their photograph taken at the NFWI stand. The photo is in the May edition of the NFWI Newsletter. Follow the link below to see it:
At our May Craft Meeting our members tried out Glass Fusion. You can see below the amazing pieces of art that they created before they were taken away to be fired.
At our April Craft Meeting our members made some beautiful Paper Flowers.
At our March Craft Meeting over 20 of our members had a lovely evening making Hand Tied Rag Wreaths. These were very straightforward to do and we had wonderful results. Some members made red, white and blue wreaths to celebrate the upcoming Coronation of King Charles, whilst others used colours to celebrate Spring. A very enjoyable evening, thank you Ruth.
At our February Craft Meeting members had fun making felted beads and then used them to make some lovely necklaces and bracelets.
HAVE YOU GOT TIME ON YOUR HANDS?
Then why not join us at Chaddesley Corbett WI
Walk with us on one of our Monthly Rambles.
Start reading our latest Book Club book.
Try a new craft at our Craft Group.
Have a chat over Lunch at a local pub
or restaurant.
Support our Skittles team, or even have a go!
Come along with us on one of our Outings.
Join our Virtual Travel Club Zoom meetings.
Check out the Activities pages for more information.
Get in touch via our Contact Us page.
