Spennymoor West Women's Institute

11/10/2026

We are in the latest issue of The WI Magazine.

08/10/2026

It was the Durham Federation Autumn Council Meeting this week. 2 Brilliant speakers, Martin from Hearing Dogs for the deaf who came with his hearing dog Inca and Mitch who was a contestant on The Great British Sewing Bee. The competion of a dog made out of recycled materials had some fantastic entries, we didn't win but we still love our little fella. 🐕

06/10/2026

From today, we're delighted to be taking part in the Big Give Women & Girls Match Fund.

For one week only, every pound donated to our No More Violence Against Women campaign will be matched💰

This funding will help us to:

• Train WI members to become No More Violence Ambassadors.
• Develop new educational resources and campaign materials.
• Increase understanding of domestic abuse, including coercive control and other non-physical forms of abuse.
• Equip members with the confidence to speak about violence against women in their communities.
• Support members to organise awareness events, talks and local activities.
• Encourage community action during the UN's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign.

Donate today and share the campaign with someone you know: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS00000GLdgHYAT

Together, we can help end violence against women 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾

08/09/2026

18/08/2026

For our summer trip we went to Durham Botanical Gardens, we had a tour of the gardens and found out loads of facts about the gardens and plants from our brilliant guide Ian. Finished off the visit with tea and scones in the garden. Lovely day out with WI friends. 🌳🌺🪷🌵🦋🐝

04/07/2026

We were joined by our WI friends from DurhamGate and Tudhoe district WI for Spennymoor Gala Parade. We had a rootin tootin time in our cowboy outfits. 🤠 What a fantastic celebration of our community. Big well done to Julie, one of our members who is on the gala commitee and works hard to organise the day every year. 🤠

14/06/2026

At our June meeting we really enjoyed a presentation by Jonathon from DCC Road Safety Team who talked about what we can do to drive safer and encourage others to do the same. Our competition was a decorated matchbox, there were some great ideas. It was lovely to see 2 of the ladies who attended our open day.

13/06/2026

We had a brilliant night at our open evening and hope our visitors did too. We had tea & cake, bra pong, a cake quiz, played people bingo, had a raffle and a presentation about life in the WI. We finished by pictures in the 'bigger buns' frame. All of our visitors took a goodie bag home with information and a couple of treats in. Thank you to the ladies from our WI who baked, donated raffle prizes and helped on the night. 🙂

01/06/2026

We are very much looking forward to meeting the ladies attending our Open Evening tommorow night at 6.30pm. There are still couple of places left to attend. Let us know by message or email if you're coming. [email protected]

31/05/2026

Our ladies are looking forward to receiving their copy of our re-branded magazine. Its free as part of our WI membership.

It is finally here - our newly rebranded WI Magazine: and a new way to provide you deep-dives and longer interviews on all things NFWI.

Fittingly for a summer issue, we present 10 pages on beach life, and spotlight some wonderful coastal WIs. We've also got a new section where your questions are answered by a WI panel in 'WIsdom'; a piece on slow crafting; and all your favourites from recipes to campaign updates.

We really hope you enjoy your new magazine, and that you find it a great read for the summer!

Read more about The WI Magazine here: https://www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre/blog/blog-listing/2026/introducing-the-wi-magazine