Red and yellow and pink and green…no, I’m not teaching my baby his rainbows, just thinking about which shades suit me after our speaker this evening. Susan from ‘Colour me Beautiful’, took to the floor asking if any members suffered … Read more

The Women’s Institute has often been at the forefront of major campaigns in Britain. In 1954, a resolution was passed at the Annual General Meeting, which resulted in the beginnings of the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, now an independent charity. … Read more

The WI is the largest voluntary women’s organisation in the UK with more than 212,000 members in 6,600 WIs.  The organisation plays a unique role in enabling women to develop new skills, giving them opportunities to campaign on issues that … Read more

Hold on to your slice of lemon drizzle cake ladies we’ve got a corker of a year planned.  From the WI Centenary Celebration in September, to a return trip to our friends at Slatterys in June through to a long … Read more

January saw the Angels’ first meeting at their new temporary home of St Thomas’s Church Pendleton. We’ll be here for 6 months while Oldfield Road is closed for roadworks. We all gathered together out of the wind and rain to … Read more

Salford Angels WI last meeting of the year was full of  fun and festive laughs as we welcomed our good friend Father Christmas and his elf to the Brown Cow in Winton to celebrate the season. After the normal business … Read more

Recently, we took a trip to Ordsall Hall, Salford’s oldest and Grade 1 listed building. Nothing new there then, a WI visiting a museum…except, we arrived after dark, decked out in warm clothes, armed with torches, and ever so slightly … Read more

On a lovely summer’s day that was a little windy at times, with thinly spaced light cloud, I was joined by friends from the WI as I prepared for a fourteen thousand feet tandem skydive. On arrival at the North … Read more

We recently held our 3rd AGM and we took the opportunity to look at some of the fantastic things we’ve done over the last 12 months, and boy, have we been busy! We’ve visited the bees at Kersal Vale Allotments, … Read more

Salford Angels is about women meeting up once a month and having a night of fun and catch up without having to be someone’s wife, mum or carer, or worrying about work, or what to cook for tea, in fact, … Read more