The ladies of Stour Valley WI enjoyed an interesting and entertaining gathering, with wonderful stories and an unexpected raffle prize!

The bi-annual gathering of the Stour Valley Group of Women’s Institutes at the Exchange, Sturminster Newton, took place in April and boasted a very respectable turn out of ladies.
The Group consists of Blandford Evening WI (current Group Leaders), Shillingstone, Stalbridge, Marnhull and Sturminster Newton.

The speaker, Taprisha Juett (pictured), herself a member of Sturminster WI, gave a lively talk on growing up in happy, peaceful, multi-racial Uganda where her father was a teacher in the church schools, before the country descended into the darkness of the Idi Amin era.

The buffet supper was excellent and there was much hilarity when, at the end of the evening as the raffle was being drawn, the remaining food items were added as bonus prizes. Waste not want not!!