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SR Carmela has made another colourful incubator cover for the Homerton neo-natal unit at Homerton Hospital and SR Mary ,who works there, will wash it in the hospital machine and then be able to give it to a baby.
Only a few days left of Show The Love but here's my green heart, made from scraps, beads, ribbons from boxes of chocolates and, yes, *that* white felt again!
Happy Show the Love (& Valentines) Day 💚 Here is SRWI sister June's beautifully crafted heart 💖
Another wonderfully creative Show the Love heart from SRWI sister, Julia who says "covered mine with pieces from a jigsaw I was going to throw away as many missing bits, we need to solve the climate crisis just like solving a puzzle" - how right you are Julia! 💚
Two more beautifully decorated "Show the Love" hearts from SRWI sisters Jill & Shirley 💚 Do send us pics of your creativeness when you can - it's great to see!
Thanks to SR sister Liz for this lovely image of her decorated heart wreath, in support of the Show the Love campaign 💚
We hope you have all received your mailing by now and are enjoying creating something to decorate your windows and show support of this important climate awareness campaign. We look forward to receiving your photos when you're ready to share...
Thanks to you all for wearing your white ribbons and supporting our chosen charity, Solace, to help in these terribly sad times 💔In the UK, 1 woman is killed every 3 days as a result of domestic abuse. Last year, 119 women were killed in the UK.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront, the alarming and devastating magnitude of this issue. We will continue to fight for all survivors to ensure they have the support and safety they need and continue to push for sustainable long-term funding for specialist support services.
Today is the final day of the UN's 16 Days of Action Against Gender-Based Violence. For information on how you can continue to help, please visit www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre/blog/blog-listing/2020/december/no-more-violence-against-women-look...
National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247
Bilingual Live Fear Free Helpline (Wales): 0808 8010 800
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Bit short notice, as it's tomorrow night, but as our diaries might be clearer than usual at the moment I thought it was worth sharing 🎀
Timeline PhotosTake part in our ‘Supporting Survivors’ Webinar on 1 December at 1-2.30pm!
Open to all WI members, you will have the chance to hear from expert speakers on how WI members can support survivors of domestic violence on a local and national level, what the impacts of Coronavirus and the lockdowns have been on survivors and specialist support services on recognising abuse.
Places are limited so register your interest here: thewi.org.uk/16dayswebinar
You will have heard that Denman faces closure. There seems to be a glimmer of hope to save it. Please see this post and have your say on the survey 💚💜💚
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A friend just made me aware of this Sylvia Pankhurst giveaway from The Radical Tea Towel Company. You have to subscribe to their emails to enter, but apparently the messages they send are fascinating with lots of great true stories 💜💚💜
Sylvia Pankhurst Giveaway September 2020 | Radical Tea Towel
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Radical Tea Towel has teamed up with Bloomsbury Publishing to give away exclusive early copies of Rachel Holmes's magnificent biography of Suffragette and socialist heroine, Sylvia Pankhurst.Our wonderful Recollect and Reconnect Bunting 8 metres long on rainbow ribbon. Thanks to all of you who created a pennant and lots of thanks to committee member Carmela for putting it all together. Looking forward to being able to display it when we are next able to meet up. Take care and keep safe everyone. Xx
Further opportunity to recycle more plastic. Below gives information about a scheme that is run by BIC to offer the recycling of writing tools - ball point pens, markers plus. Many London Ryman stores are part of this scheme. You just hand your supply to a member of staff and they organise delivery to BIC.
More info on www.terracycle.com
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TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle materials. They offer a range of free programs, as well as recycling solutions available for purchase for almost every form of waste. Eliminating the Idea of WasteI've never known what to do with my used make up containers, but now they can all be recycled at easily accessed points in major retailers via L'Oreal 👏
There are links to further initiatives in this article too, including Selfridges starting up a clothing rental operation and a mending concierge service, to truly make Reuse and Repair the first considerations before recycle ❤️
Jane xx
L'Oreal launches make-up recycling across UK shops
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The firm's Maybelline brand has set up recycling points in shops including Tesco and Superdrug.Food for thought 🌍❤️🌏
Zero Waste Week 2020 - Day Three | Zero Waste Week
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Welcome to day three of Zero Waste Week. The average UK household throws away 22% of their weekly food shop which adds up to £700 per year! Every day in the UK we throw away 20 million slices of bread 6 million potatoes 4 million bananas The food and drink we waste, that could have...Zero Waste Week - 2020 Day One | Zero Waste Week
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Reduce your food waste by creating an Eat Me First shelf. Here's how.To kick off Zero Waste Week, from today, I give you WI Dolly! Made from leftover fabric scraps, thread and wadding with a biro face. Pattern and demo a bargain at £5 from Denman at home.
This should make interesting watching - following up on their single use plastic series earlier in the year. Tomorrow night, 1 Sept, at 9pm on BBC1 🌍 ❤️ 🌏
Jane x
BBC One - War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita, The Fight Goes On
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Hugh and Anita find out how Covid-19 has made the problem of single-use plastics worse.Huge thanks to all who came along today to our first SRWI meet up since lockdown ❤️
In lieu of our annual garden party, around 20 of us braved the chilly Bank Holiday weather for a socially distanced catch up at the Hollow Ponds.
All brought along their decorated pennants for our "Recollect & Reconnect Bunting" project which we added to those sent in by post. Such a great variety of designs that our committee crafters will now stitch together with rainbow ribbon to commemorate this unusual time 🌈
It was so lovely to enjoy a can of Pimms & a long overdue face to face catch up 😃