Shapwick Village Hall As our big birthday approaches, our plans are taking shape – a day out crafting in the Anglo Saxon Long Hall on our birthday, and a Treasure Hunt around Burnham on Sea in the summer. Cake and fizz have been ordered and work on our Centenary bunting and banner is in full swing: it looks amazing already! We are about half way there with our Acts of Kindness and have lots of information to go into our booklet – Shapwick Starlets WI 1925 – 2025. It seems the Strangways (a Strangway was one of the founders of Shapwick WI) were a very private family, so sadly we have not managed to find a picture of Sophia as yet. 5 SUMMER I S SUE | J ULY 2 0 2 5 BRIDGET DAWES, IAN HALE, MICHAEL MOTUM AND NERINA SCOTT Village Hall activity continues to benefit from the new kitchen. The latest morning breakfast on Saturday 17 May proved a great success and we remain hugely grateful to those who support these quarterly fund-raising events. The next breakfast will be in September once normality returns following the summer period. Also on the programme is October's ever popular Harvest Supper; dates to be confirmed in the next edition. The recent Annual Parish Council Meeting were briefed on the Hall's out-dated trust deed that underpins the existing charity. It dates from 1992 and is in need of a refresh. The Community Council for Somerset are advising trustees to create a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). The Village Hall will continue to be a village focused charity registered with the UK Charity Commission. An open meeting, outlining the need for change and its implications, will be held in the early autumn. Shapwick Starlets WI SUE SELLICK Sadly we lost our longest serving member in April, our dear Dora who continued to take part in our competitions even when bed bound. We have a competition cup that Dora won numerous times, so in her honour it will now be known as Dora’s Cup. We will all miss her as she has been a huge part of our WI, with her Mother being a founder member. (Read some of Dora’s poems on pp. 6-7). In May, we had our AGM, and the present committee were voted back in. Once the formalities were completed, bingo was the name of the game. We have a very whizzy machine which we couldn’t actually get to work, due to operator error it seems. Meanwhile work on improving the barn roof that covers the kitchen and reception areas will soon be underway. There's much else ongoing enabling the Village Hall to be well placed in continuing to serve the people of Shapwick and its neighbourhood. Should you want to get involved in whatever capacity you will be most welcome. Just contact any of us or via shapwickvh@gmail.com. In April, Lynne from St John’s Ambulance showed us how to carry out CPR and also demonstrated the use of a defibrillator; always good to refresh these skills. Our Book Club had an outing to the Cinema to see The Salt Path as we had read the book. Consensus of opinion is that the book is better. We are currently reading Are we having fun yet, definitely a laugh out loud book recommended to me when choosing books from the library van. We are lucky to have this service. If you have not tried it before, dates are on the Somerset Council website. A big thanks to Dovecote School for purchasing some goal posts so that our netball team can play on the outside court. We are improving but we do tend to play by our own rules most of the time.......and laugh a lot! For our June meeting, Sally from Taunton Early Birds WI talked about how to win competitions, some with just luck and others where some skill required. I think a lot of us have now turned into ‘compers’, so watch this space to see if any of our members actually win anything. Watch out for the postcard from a luxury villa in the Bahamas or maybe a year’s supply of baked beans! Unfortunately the weather was not kind to us on the Saturday of the Shapwick Jam (see p. 4), but we didn’t let the weather dampen our spirits. We have ordered sunshine for next year! We will have a break in August, but are currently planning some August Adventures; who knows where we will end up?
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