{"id":1376,"date":"2023-05-05T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2023-05-05T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:25:04","slug":"lancashire-federation-agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire Federation AGM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;April I had the privilege of attending the first of the new look LFWI AGM\u2019s in&nbsp;Lytham.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Pavillion&nbsp;was a lovely venue and although it was only half a day it was a packed half a day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It had all the usual business, and by the way there are some great events planned for &nbsp;2023\/24 as well as a rival to Denman here&nbsp;in&nbsp;Lancashire with residential courses soon to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main speaker was&nbsp;Figan&nbsp;Murray, the mother of one of the Manchester Arena bombing victims, who is trying to push through a new law making Councils and venues liable for terrorism checks and as to be expected her tale was harrowing but also inspiring.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This speaker was surrounded by some of the greatest and best from Lancashire, with talks from a couple of ladies who seem to be single handedly trying to save the&nbsp;local&nbsp;fleece trade, an ex-head mistress&nbsp;and new WI advisor&nbsp;who has written a&nbsp;childrens&nbsp;book, a contestant in the Sewing Bee&nbsp;and a runner up in the Lady Denman cup.&nbsp;Well done Lancashire for celebrating our own talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you get the chance next year go, perhaps you can be the next inspiring WI member.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><em>Emma Gillinder<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1st&nbsp;April I had the privilege of attending the first of the new look LFWI AGM\u2019s in&nbsp;Lytham.&nbsp; The&nbsp;Pavillion&nbsp;was a lovely venue and although it was only half a day it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southportwi.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}