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Programme 2024

January 17th - Open meeting (cancelled due to weather conditions)

IAN GREGG OBE
The Story of Greggs

February 21st

WENDY THOMPSON
Blue Badge Guide

March 20th - Open meeting

DR SIMON LA FRENAIS
Robert Fitzroy; the Beagle’s Tragic Captain

April 17th

CHERRIE TRELOGAN
Making a Scrapbook

May 15th

SARA COOK
Eye Can Do IT

June 19th

OUTING
Winton Park Gardens

July 17th

CAROLINE BECKETT
A Life in Death:

August 21st

BARBIE HANDLEY
Wainwright's Coast to Coast

September 18th

GERALDINE WILSON
Cookery Demonstration

October 16th - Open meeting - Bring & Buy

CLAIRE HENSMAN
10 Years as HM Lord-Lieutenant of Cumbria

November 20th

AGM - With cheese and wine

December 11th

CHRISTMAS PARTY

The Crosthwaite WI generally meet at The Memorial Hall, third Wednesday each month at 7.30pm.

Visitors are very welcome.

Additional social events are held, normally on the 1st Thursday afternoon of the month.

If you are interested in joining the Crosthwaite and Lyth WI do come along and get to know us

or contact: Jean Sherratt - phone 015395 68000/07989 318320 (President)

Everyone is invited to join our Open Meetings

£4 at the door to include refreshments

Open Meetings start at 8pm


Click here for the report of Crosthwaite and Lyth WI activities given to the Annual Parish Meeting (22nd April 2024)


Click here for photos and reports of our 90th Anniversary year in 2018


The Life and Family of Louise Mary Holme

A Living Memory project for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to mark the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme by members of Crosthwaite and Lyth WI.

Remembering Louise M Holme O.B.E.
Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
1891-1920

Click here to read about the project undertaken by the Crosthwaite WI in 2016
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