The Dorset Federation of Women's Institutes

05/03/2026

Great afternoon at the kurling final won by Wool WI.

21/02/2026

A few spaces are still available for this wonderful talk and Demonstration from Kinu Barsley. Kinu gave a very good Zoom talk during Covid, It will be lovely to meet Kinu in the DFWI office for her talk and Demonstration. Please email or phone DFWI Office for more details.

21/02/2026

A few spaces are still available on the Memoir Writing Course. The closing date has been extended for another week. Please email or phone DFWI Office for more details.

11/02/2026

Reminder that Paul Atterbury is our Speaker at Merely House, Lunch on Friday 20th March his talk will be on The Perfect Partnership: Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll. Please book through the DFWI website or contact the DFWI Office, email [email protected]

27/01/2026

CHANGE OF SPEAKER at Merley House on Friday 20th March 2026.
For personal reasons Sally Smith the author has had to cancel. Our speaker is now Paul Atterbury from the Antiques roadshow. We will announce the Title of his talk as soon as possible. £40 for a 2 course Lunch with Coffee /Tea included. Please email Jacky [email protected] for a booking form. This Booking Forms will soon be on our DFWI website

05/01/2026

Please book your teams for the DFWI Kurling League2026 CLOSING DATE IS THE 20th January.Booking Forms can be obtained from Federation Office or Download from DFWI Website. Below are the dates and Hall booked for all the Kurling Sessions. You can have more than one Team.from your WI.

14/12/2025

08/12/2025

Lovely Christmas Meal at the Pine Lodge with the members of Wool WI. Our 3 hampers were raffled for our charity of the year. Many thanks to our committee for organising it all.

08/12/2025

05/12/2025

The Board of Trustees would like to thank Jan Watson and Jenny Preston for organising the Programme for the first of our Carol Festivals at Wimborne Minster today. . A lovely Carol Festival with beautiful singing from our DFWI Choir led by Jan. If you missed today's Carol Festival, we do it all again at Sherborne Abbey on Monday 8th December at 2.30

15/11/2025

It's that time again! Our Singers have been busy rehearsing, so do come along and enjoy their next concerts.