LLANGENNITH WI

meet in the Village Hall on the fourth Monday of the month, at 7.30pm

With 26 members on the roll, Llangennith Women's Institute like to think of themselves as small but perfectly formed.

They have been going strong since their first meeting in 1920 - Llangennith was one of the first WIs in the country and only the fourth in Glamorgan; and between them, the members can turn their hands to all sorts of things, from photography to ceramics and watercolouring, from embroidery to raising prize produce, from horsemanship to sailing, from flower arranging to stained glass-making to cockle gathering to folk singing...(NOT to mention cakes and jam).

The members come from right across the board of age groups, career backgrounds and interests. What they have in common is a shared respect for community, friendship and personal development. They reflect their diversity in the range of speakers, from the light hearted to the serious, who visit throughout the year.

More tuneful members sing in Church, WI Group and Federation choral events; and everyone gets involved in providing entertainments and exhibits for regular WI Group meetings, for the WI Federation eisteddfodau, and for local and county shows.

Individual members were active in the Parish Hall refurbishment in 1999-2000, and are avid supporters of language, history, art and computing courses offered there - and of its more relaxing facilities for yoga, bowls, badminton, or a turn in the fitness suite and a sit-down in the Hall's Cyber-Café.

Llangennith WI were proud to dedicate a cedar tree at the approach to the Hall, to commemorate the Millennium and their own 80th anniversary. They use the EU-funded Llangennith Community Bus to travel far and wide, spreading the word that

YOU ARE NEVER TOO YOUNG TO JOIN LLANGENNITH!

 

The Llangennith WI banner was embroidered in 1971 by the then members, including Gwenda Taylor who is still an energetic member today. It depicts the 12th Century church of Saint Cenydd which is at the heart of the village, and which stands on the site of Cennydd's original monastic Llan. That earlier wooden building fell foul of the Vikings in the 10th century. The banner shows the 'new' church nestling in its stunning setting in the bowl of hills formed by Rhossilli Down and Hardings Down, at the far North West corner of the beautiful Gower peninsula.