Netbelles 1st Walking Netball Festival
The Netbelles – Great Bookham Belles WI’s Walking netball team celebrated their 1st birthday by competing in a Walking Netball Festival at their home ground Manor House School, Bookham on Sunday 6th May. There were 6 teams from around Surrey, Blue...
Belles in the Bluebells
Belles' seasonal bluebell walk of members of the Walking Group , Val, Michele, Christine, Claire, Sue and Ziggy the dog at Norbury Park.
Book group tour Bath
At the end of April, Members of Great Bookham Belles WI Monday Book Group embarked upon a 'grand tour' of Bath; the destination felt apt being once home of Jane Austin ( house with the blue front door). From the Roman baths to Bath Abby and then to ...
The Gin Kitchen Trip
29 Members visited the new distillery of The Gin Kitchen in Dorking. Kate and Helen the co-owners made us feel very welcome. Tastings of both their gins, Gutsy Monkey, their winter gin and Dancing Dragontail their summer gin. We then had to make ...
Quizzee Belles
Belles attended this months meeting with their thinking caps on to participate in the first inter-Belles quiz.
Eddie The Eagle
The Women’s Institute’s strapline and raison d’être is ‘Inspiring Women’ and Great Bookham Belles WI did exactly that when it held an Eddie the Eagle film night with special guest Michael Edwards, Eddie The Eagle himself! The sold out event was held as a fundraiser for Yours Sanctuary. »View Slideshow
The Titanic: A true story of The Countess and the Able Seaman
Belles' March 2018 meeting kept members enthralled as guest speaker Angela Young spoke about her great-grandmother the Countess of Rothes, one of the estimated 705 survivors of the Titanic disaster in 1912. Angela, a novelist and author of Dance of...