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December 2019 December 2019

2020 BERE REGIS CALENDARS BERE REGIS WI

At the end of October, Bere Regis WI hosted the
The 2020 version of the Bere Regis biannual Woodbury Hill Group Harvest Supper.
Calendars are now on sale! Priced We’d like to thank all the members of our own
at just £5 each, and a great idea and neighbouring WIs who attended and helped
for Christmas gifts, you can pick to make this event such a great success. Thanks
up a copy from the Post Office are of course also due to the team from Bere
(with a free envelope if posting), Regis WI who took charge of all the logistics
the Spar or the Pop In Place. and made the event run so smoothly. We’ve
has some lovely words of thanks from
All profits from the sale of the neighbouring groups.
calendars this year will be going
to The Ed Kent Trust, a local During November, our record in the annual
charity providing grants for young DFWI skittles league suffered a serious upset.
people to develop their skills and Used as we are to coming second in our
experiences in sports or music, set up in memory of Bere Regis resident Ed Kent matches, we had to realign our expectations
who sadly passed away in 2015 at the age of 13. after an unexpected victory in a close fought
match against Sutton Poynz. Not letting this go
to our heads, we reverted to normal form for
our final few matches! Luckily, we’re firmly of
the thought that it’s the taking part that matters and are secure in our position as
one of the friendliest teams, with probably the best après-skittles suppers.
November also saw the last of our monthly Stitch and Twitch sessions for the year,
where a small, but enthusiastic, group of members continued their Project Linus
UK projects. These will be presented in the New Year.
After an enjoyable and thoroughly tasty lunch at the Cock and Bottle Inn in
Morden in November 2019, the Bere Regis WI Lunch Club will, like Stitch and
Twitch, take a break for December. That’s not to say that we won’t be upholding
our gastronomic prowess in December. Instead of our usual evening meeting this
month, we’ll instead be enjoying our Christmas Lunch at The King’s Arms in
th
Stoborough on Wednesday, 18 December.
Finally, we’d like to wish all our members, together with all who live in the village, a
very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
For details of future meetings or further information about the WI, please contact
Di Pitts on 01929 471322 or Moira Mathers on 07900 906278. You can see more
about our past meetings and activities on our Facebook page @BereRegisWI.

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