Hay-on-W.I.

"Are you going to make jam?" one of my friends asked when I said I was going to a WI meeting.
"Not in the middle of Kilverts," I said.
Hay-on-WI were meeting in the room to one side of the bar. They're just starting a group in Hay, and there were a couple of ladies from more established local groups there to advise. The lady who seems to have started it all is Ellie, who also runs the local cubs' group.
There seems to be an awful lot going on in the Powys Brecknock Federation. There's a quiz for the Wye Group at Talgarth Town Hall on Friday 24th February, and a Gardener's Question Time Evening on Tuesday 28th February at the Guildhall in Brecon, bingo at Bishop's Meadow and Cor Meibion Llanelli (the Male Voice Choir) on March 21st in Brecon, amongst other things. A full member of the WI pays £31.50 a year, and for this she gets magazines, a regular local newsletter, access to a college with lots of practical courses - and, of course, the money goes towards hiring rooms and speakers for the local groups. The Hay group will be providing cakes and encouragement for a Sports Relief race which will be starting from outside Kilverts in a few weeks' time, and they're already thinking about doing something during Festival week. Last year the cubs made £80 selling bookmarks to Festival goers, that they'd made themselves - and they even managed to sell them to Kindle users!