The WI takes a very strong role in raising money for charity. During the course of a year numerous coffee mornings and jumble sales will be held with all proceeds going to charity.

Every year our branch choses a "charity of choice" to which all money raised will go. Sometimes it is hard to identify a single good cause and in that instance, as recently, we designated two charities and money raised was divided between them. There is no restriction on what kind of charity we chose but it is always local to us. One year it was the cancer ward of our local hospital and the following year our charity choice was for two good causes, a respite home for disabled childen called Little Acorns and the other a local trust for an individual set up by her family entitled The Louise Hamilton Cancer Help Bursary Fund. Last year the charity money we had collected went to the Palliative Care Unit of James Paget Hospital.

We have just finished knitting 1,000 teddy bears for an appeal for the country of Burundi. All bears will be sold and the money raised put to good use in that country.

We recently visited our local horse sanctuary Redwings and have adopted one of the horses there called Icky.

Our small yearly donation helps to feed and care for the ponies and donkeys at the sanctuary.