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We meet in Minety Village Hall on the second Monday of each month.

02/11/2026

Thank you to everyone who took part in our raffle for breast cancer last month🙏🏻
You have made a difference ♥️

27/10/2026

In Praise of Women series.

Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, died on 27th October 1968.

Lise was a physicist who spent much of her scientific career in Berlin but lost her position as a professor when the Nazi’s took control.
In 1939, she was part of the small team who discovered nuclear fission which ultimately lead to nuclear reactors and the nuclear bomb. Her part in the discovery was not recognised and when the Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded in 1944 for nuclear fission, she was excluded.
She was nominated 19 times for the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and 30 times for the Nobel Prize in physics but never received an award!!!
Lise’s omission from the list of Nobel prize winners has been put down to a number of reasons:
Failure of the Nobel committee to properly evaluate her work.
Wartime exile - she fled the N***s due to her Jewish heritage.
The failure of her collaborators in the work to give her due credit.
Sexism and antisemitism.

Had she known how her discovery would be used in the future, she may have been reluctant to complete her work, but as they say, hindsight is a wonderful thing. In fact, she refused to work on the Manhattan project and was quoted as saying “I will have nothing to do with a bomb”.

A woman whose contribution to the scientific world was downplayed and partially ignored due to her being female.
She said “life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty “.

06/10/2026

Dear women of Minety.
Could we remind you that our meeting on Monday is open to ALL women of any age.
Dr Kerrie Wallace from Purton Surgery is going to talk about ageing well, health and wellness and there will be a Q&A session at the end where you can ask questions in a safe, all female, environment.
All proceeds from the raffle will go to Breast Cancer and we are so delighted that have generously donated a Dyson Airwrap as first prize. Nurdens garden centre, Down on the Farm and have also generously donated vouchers for the raffle.
Please come and learn about how to age well as a woman and support the raffle in aid of such an important cause.
Could we please ask that you bring cash for entry and the raffle as we do not have a card machine.

Se you all there🥰

24/09/2026

Dear women of Minety,
Minety WI would like to invite you to our October meeting. We are delighted that Dr Kerrie Wallace from Purton Surgery is coming to talk to us on the subject of ageing better for women.
It will be a safe space amongst women of all ages, where you can ask questions with no fear of embarrassment or judgement.
We are so pleased that have kindly donated a brand new airwrap for us to raffle. There will also be other amazing prizes donated by local businesses.
ALL profits from the raffle will go to Breast Cancer research - a charity that is so important to so many of us.
Please come along and support us.

11/09/2026

Dear ladies of Minety

Thank you so much for supporting our bra recycling 👏🏻👏🏻We have a black plastic sack full in just 5 days🥳
Let’s keep it going, spread the word.

08/09/2026

4 years ago today.

06/09/2026

Minety WI are excited to announce our Bra recycling in aid of Breast Cancer.
We are incredibly grateful to who have agreed to be our collection point, and to the Village Hall Committee who have kindly allowed us to use a currently unused corner for our bin.
We will then take the unwanted bras for recycling. Those that can be reused are sent to women who need them, those that cannot be used are taken apart by the Breast Cancer charity and the pieces recycled and reused.
Please bring your unwanted bras to the shop in a bag and the shop volunteers will put them in our bin.
THE BRAS MUST BE CLEAN AND WASHED! But they do not have to be in good condition.
Supporting women’s health and reducing landfill.♻️♻️

25/08/2026

RIP Dolly Parton
Viewed by some as a “dumb blonde”, Dolly was definitely not dumb.
She was a successful, shrewd and fierce business woman who had her own record label and co-owned the huge Dollywood Company. She was born one of 12 children into a poor farming family and began singing in church when she was 6.
Dolly’s songs are instantly recognisable and her legacy of scholarships, supporting hospitals, donating to flood and wildfire victims, encouraging children’s literacy and setting up a breeding programme for bald eagles, will mean she will never be forgotten

13/08/2026

In Praise of Women series.

Florence Nightingale died 13th August 1910.

Florence Nightingale has been credited as the founder of modern nursing and a social reformer. Her nursing methods during the Crimean War and the training she gave to her nurses, were recognised as having reduced death rates among the injured soldiers by improving hygiene in the hospitals and living quarters.
She helped establish her nursing school at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London using money from the Nightingale fund which had been set up and generously donated to following her work in the Crimea.
Florence improved healthcare for all parts of society, introduced trained nurses to look after those who lived in the workhouses, wrote numerous volumes to educate nurses in training and created the Nightingale matrons in hospitals.
Although a few of her ideas regarding infection have since been debunked, her belief that germs cause infections, is upheld by her teachings and textbooks, and strict precautionary methods.
She was recognised and given many awards throughout her career and continued to work to improve hospitals, nursing and the understanding of medicine until she was about 80.
She died at the age of 90 and is buried in a small churchyard in Hampshire, her relatives having declined the offer of her burial at Westminster Abbey.

13/08/2026

Our annual summer garden party in one of our members’ gardens. A wonderful afternoon of food, refreshments, catching up with friends and a few welcome guests!

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