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Data Protection Consent Form Notes The Data Protection Consent form will help WIs ensure they are complying with new GDPR requirements which came into effect May 25th 2018. The form is designed to be simple and easy to alter to suit your WI, but these notes have been written to help with any queries. An

East Sussex County Chair, Gill Nokes, accompanied by two past Chairs, Shirley Kirby and Kathryn Hutson, and fourteen other East Sussex Federation members joined members of West Sussex Federation to celebrate the life of Lady Gertrude Denman with the inauguration of a blue plaque. The plaque was placed on the side of the Victory Hall,

East Sussex Federation of Women’s Institutes (ESFWI) was formed in 1919 having originally been part of the Sussex Federation which was the first to be created in the country in 1917 – just slightly earlier than the National Federation. Today we have 101 WIs across the County in both towns and villages. They each have

These are some of the green hearts made by members who came to Hailsham to take part in the Drop In days making Green Hearts as part of the Climate Change campaign. Everyone made two or three hearts from the amazing stash of free materials supplied by members of WIST (WI Advisers) to take back

For the past couple of years on Valentine’s Day, WI members have been busy creating green hearts to show their love and support for people, plants and places threatened by Climate Change. We know that some of WI members already take part, but this year the WIST team are joining in. We are holding two

The NFWI is a founding member of The Climate Coalition (TCC), a group of over 100 organisations and over 15 million people working for action on climate change. One of the TCC core campaigns is focussed around Valentine’s Day, and is called ‘For the love of…’. This campaign aims to show people that climate change