Topical Talk Group: WI campaigns for this year’s resolutions

Topical Talk   –  National WI Campaigns for this Years Resolutions

Tuesday 18th October 2016

Present : J Ch, J Su, S Pi, L Ba, J Co and W Ca.

Matters Arising from last meeting.

  • J Ch had emailed Wight Bid with no response. After more research she now feels that this is not going to be a useful contact as it is mostly dealing with businesses and paying for marketing.
  • J Ch has had no luck making contact with anyone from Public Affairs at WI House. She will keep trying.
  • W Ca had emailed Fight for the Wight with no response. She will try to contact by phone.
  • J Ch has been researching Parks Link and S Pi has been researching Changing Places , both may be useful links with regards to promoting better toilet provision on the IOW.
  • This evening’s Parish Council meeting has an agenda item concerning the selling of the building that houses the village public toilets.

Campaign Against Food Waste

This basically involves 2 surveys, one for individual members to complete and another to be conducted within a local supermarket. The individual one takes about 15 minutes and can be completed online or as a paper copy. J Ch to circulate all information to our membership.

The supermarket questionnaire covered promotions and packaging of fruit, veg, meat, fish, eggs and diary  as well as the ‘once opened’ information on tins, jars etc. J Ch and W Ca were considered suitable to be let loose in Tesco and agreed to go on Wednesday 19th.

Hospital Care for People With Dementia

This is information is in a glossy booklet format called Carers Welcome, containing a great deal of information and statistics, a Carers Welcome sign for display on hospital wards and a knitting pattern for sensory bands.

The booklet promoted a discussion similar to the original resolution. We still had reservations about this resolution and felt that some of the survey data is being used inappropriately.

  • One suggested action was join the John’s Campaign Letter lobby. W Ca had emailed for the template but had not had a reply.
  • W Ca will pass the sensory band pattern to J C-H for the consideration of craft club with the recommendation that the hospital be asked if they were wanted before any work was undertaken. We had concerns about the issue of hygiene.

 The next meeting will be at S Pi’s at 3pm on 6th Dec.