Hi Annette - I see your WI is in the far Western reaches of Surrey, whereas we are almost falling off the edge of the Eastern frontier. Best wishes from DEWI to all at Trumps Green WI. No doubt more and more WIs will be developing their own websites, so get in there ahead of the rest! We find the website is an important tool for getting messages to both members and visitors to the site. Your website can be just one simple page with contact information, or as complex as you have time to make it. BT Community Webkits provides our hosting and web-building service which is free for not-for-profit organisations. You can find them on our "Useful Links" page.

Just came by to look at your web site advise by Sally Dampney, please can you let me know how you manage to get it past your members, and whether buy having a web site, you have increased your members. How much work is involved in keeping it up to date.

There are a number of men, both honourable and honorary, who take part in ancillary DEWI events. They are known as POWIs (Prisoners of the WI) a title freely bestowed upon a volunteer non-member of the male gender who, either willingly or unwillingly, at any time whatsoever and without notice, may be coaxed, co-opted, press-ganged, coerced, or nagged into assistance in areas of catering, transportation, manual labour either skilled or unskilled, or any areas of expertise at any time by any member as decreed essential for the smooth running of any DEWI activity.

Very informative website. I found you on Google! I also noticed a few stray men in your "walkie talkies" photo. Be careful, you don't want them taking over the WI.

So glad you liked looking at our website. Best wishes to all at Canwell WI.

I am currently feeling slightly despondent at the magnitude of the task of creating a website for my WI. I have found some new ideas in the layout and content which will help me to face the rest of the group tonight more cheerfully! Many thanks - you sound as if you enjoy being WI members just as much as we do at Canwell WI in Staffordshire.