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Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · 22d

Don’t forget- you can now book your table for our quiz. 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️

Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Margate WI Quiz is back and tickets are on sale now!

So grab your besties, stock up on your favourite snacks, dust off the little grey cells & join us for this fabulous fundraiser on Friday 3 October.

Email [email protected] to book. 🧜‍♀️

Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · 24d

A total of 17 bags of rubbish were collected by members of Margate WI this morning in the Barnes car park area of Westbrook.

#keepbritaintidy #margate #pleasetakelitterhome #womensinstitute

A group of women in high vis tabards stand in a seafront car park, they hold up signs asking people to please take litter home.
In front of them are 17 bin liners of rubbish.

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Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · Sep 3

Guess what is returning to Dreamland this December? That’s right, it’s the Margate WI Christmas Fayre!
Makers: Contact us now for stall availability
or
Part of a community group & might be able to help us bring Christmas to Margate? Get in touch!

#margate

A festive poster advertising the Margate WI Christmas Fayre on Saturday 6 December 2025 at Dreamland.

Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · Aug 31

Are you going to Cliftonville Farmers’ Market today?
👋🏻 Look out for our lovely members talking about Bystanders can be Lifesavers, our campaign which encourages people to learn how to save a life, including how to find their nearest defibrillator and check it’s ready to use.
🧜‍♀️ See you there?

Four women in white tops smile for the camera while standing on a beach. They have a table in front of them covered in a turquoise tablecloth, and on that is a heart-shaped bowl containing advice cards to help save a life.

A close up image of a hand holding a business card which reads ‘save a life’, and includes an important website address: www.defibfinder.uk

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Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Margate WI Quiz is back and tickets are on sale now!

So grab your besties, stock up on your favourite snacks, dust off the little grey cells & join us for this fabulous fundraiser on Friday 3 October.

Email [email protected] to book. 🧜‍♀️

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PaulaGoodale @paulagoodale.bsky.social · Jun 7

The latest Women's Institute resolution. CPR training is important. The more people who can do it and are confident in using it, the more lives are saved.

Free 15 minute training here

www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...

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Women's Institute @womensinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 4

Wow - @margatewi.bsky.social's resolution passed with an enormous majority! 97.7% of members voted through Bystanders can be Lifesavers - a new campaign for 25/26; championing CPR skills, esp tackling reticence to cut or remove women's bras in order to giving life-saving help for heart attacks!

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Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · Jun 4

We are thrilled to confirm that our lifesaving proposal is to become the new national campaign for @womensinstitute.bsky.social
The WI has been such an important campaigning body for over a century, & to think that Bystanders Can Be Lifesavers, will become part of that- wow!

Very happy members of Margate WI stand together on the seafront with their WI flag, a defibrillator and other lifesaving themed items.

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Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · Jun 4

Watching the online Women’s Institute annual meeting today to see if our resolution might become the next national campaign….
#wishusluck #bystanderscanbelifesavers #wi_am2025
@womensinstitute.bsky.social

Three women with blonde hair smile at the camera

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Women's Institute @womensinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 4

Angel Strawbridge, and husband Dick, join us from the Chateau in France for a special keynote speech. Thanks for joining us! #WI_AM2025 #EscapeToTheChateau #NewSupporter #WISupporter

Angel and Dick Strawbridge joining the virtual WI Annual Meeting 2025, via Zoom from the Chateau.

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Women's Institute @womensinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 4

#WI_AM2025 Now we're hearing about the resolution for a new WI campaign, Bystanders can be Lifesavers - proposed by @margatewi.bsky.social. It would improve access to defibrillator training, and challenge reticence about removing or cutting bras. You could save a woman's life!

The BHF presents a slideshow giving the NFWI lifesaving tips, including learning CPR, encouraging others to, and take things further by taking the (proposed) campaign into the community.

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Women's Institute @womensinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 4

Countdown to #WI_AM2025. A sneak look at the behind the scenes of today's "set". Hope you're excited and sitting comfortably for today's Annual Meeting online....

NFWI Chair, Jeryl Stone, takes the lectern.

Camera crew and camera set-up, as the WI AM 2025 prepares to begin online.

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Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · May 11

We’ve filled nine bags of rubbish in Northdown Park as part of a litter picking session this morning (Sunday 11 May).
We collected discarded drinks cans and bottles, bagged dog mess and any other litter we saw.
Thank you to @thanetcouncil.bsky.social for collecting the filled bags afterwards. 🙌

A group of seven women pose in a park on a sunny day, holding up signs which say ‘please take litter home’. In front of them are bags filled with collected rubbish.

Two women filling plastic bags with rubbish in a park.

A woman collecting discarded litter in a green park

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Women's Institute @womensinstitute.bsky.social · May 1

The new WI Life magazine (May & June) is out now! Featuring: period positive champion Chella Quint OBE, and an exclusive interview with Emma Bridgewater about our exciting new collaboration: a '110 years of the WI mug'! Available to pre-order right now: www.emmabridgewater.co.uk/collections/...

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Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · May 1

Our swimmers are missing it!

Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · May 1

We’ve just learnt that a patchwork block made by president Hilary which represents our WI & the resolution itself is to be included in Liberty’s 150th anniversary supersized house, on display in store 9 May to 24 July. Visit www.libertylondon.com/uk/features/... & start planning your visit!

A patchwork block of a heart in red fabrics, surrounded by sea-themed blue fabrics. Bystanders can be lifesavers and Margate WI is embroidered onto the block.

Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · May 1

Here is our own little craftivism project our members have been doing: fabric stamps which contain details of a website to find your nearest defibrillator, which we hand out to members of the public to keep in their bags, wallets or pockets.

Piles of postage stamps made from fabric. On the back of each is written ‘Save a life, defibfinder.uk love Margate WI’

Strips of fabric being cut down to size for the stamps

A pile of fabric stamps and a poster asking people to take a stamp and keep it close- it may save a life one day.

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Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · May 1

We are the group behind this year’s WI resolution *Bystanders can be lifesavers* & we’re so excited to think it might become the next new national campaign for the @womensinstitute.bsky.social

If there are any WIs out there with questions, please message us & we will do our best to answer those.

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Margate Women’s Institute @margatewi.bsky.social · Apr 9

Well, as it’s our tenth birthday this year, it’s about time we tried out a little blue sky!
Margate WI is now officially here.
Hello.

a bear is standing in a field behind a fence and waving .

Alt: a bear is standing in a field behind a fence and waving .

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