Tytherington Treacles​ WI

Nick Birchall was our March speaker (9/3/26), from Nantwich Cheese Shop telling us all about the History of Cheshire Cheese. The shop opened in 2020 during covid, they have since gone from strength to strength, with lots of cheeses made from the local area. Nick brought along 3 Cheshire cheeses for us all to sample - 1845 variety from Bourne cheese makers, Drunken Burt, flavoured with cider & Burt Blue both from Clare Burt Cheese makers (also all available from our Treacle Ma

A very special February meeting last night (9/2/26), as we celebrated our 10th Birthday as well as welcoming Viv Bettley-Eagles & her Bollywood Dance for Fun group. We had invited the Founding Members of Tytherington Treacles along with our WI Advisor Vivien Lee.. Valerie Jones had baked a special Birthday cake and we all had a glass of Nosecco to celebrate. We even sang ‘Happy Birthday’. Clare Duffield had cheekily wrapped all the raffle prizes as birthday presents. Our Tabl

Our January meeting (12/1/26) wasn’t as scheduled, as our speaker Clare Snelling had to cancel due to illness. Thankfully Viv Braddock our Speaker Secretary organised Jayne Stubbs, who shared her experience on ‘Learning to fly at 50!’ & still actively flying - What a fascinating talk she gave. We also collecting ‘Can for Jan(uary)’ total donations were - 56 cans, 1 bag of rice & 3 guest soaps, which will be taken to silklife Foodbank this week. Thank you Treacles for all your

Our Christmas party was enjoyed by all - a lovely Christmassy Quiz, thanks to Julie Skelton our Quiz Master. Teams of 4 with Christmas themed names, thanks Pam. Platters of sandwiches, crisps & mince pies, fizz & Christmas crackers. Once again a fabulous raffle organised by Clare. A new idea of a ‘secret Santa’ with Christmas baubles/tree decorations was appreciated by all. Lovely photos of our members able to attend. Big thanks to some of our members who came early to help s

Our November’s meeting (10/11/25) was our Annual Meeting & we also welcomed Sarah Parker from Bond St. Veterinary practice who gave us some very good advice regarding ‘Pet First Aid’. All our Committee have volunteered to stay on another year Our refreshment ladies were Carole Clipson & Chris Stewart, thank you so much for your help at our meeting. Lovely Poppy themed Raffle provided by Clare Duffield.

‘Let’s get creative’ was the theme for our October meeting on Monday (13/10/25) with our guest speaker Emma Crawley (Rooby Doo). Our members enjoyed a very relaxing evening tracing & colouring in to create a stained glass window effect of their chosen animal. As one of our members rightly stated that there is ‘Something very therapeutic about colouring’. So highly recommended. We were also selling home made tea towels, from material recently donated, gift wrap & gift bags als

Our September meeting (8/9/25) was a great welcome back after our August break for our members, we enjoyed James Ellson's very interesting talk on ‘The Trees & The Bees’ who is now a beekeeper & owns an apple orchard over in Hayfield, Derbyshire, producing up to 90 varieties of apple. He is an ex Policeman & published author of crime books. Thanks to Jo Clough & Jean Donald who were our refreshment ladies & Clare Duffield for a fabulous raffle as usual. Thanks to all the comm

We were pleased to welcome Alice Walker as our speaker to our July Meeting last night (14/7/25), from a very young age Alice has always...

What a great meeting listening to the trials & tribulations of an independent travel agent & TV star - Richard Slater from Henbury...

We invited Ruth Smith from the charity Medical Detection Dogs to our May meeting (12/5/25). What a fantastic charity it is. They train...

Valerie Jones our Secretary gave her talk on ‘How we bared all’ at our April meeting (14/4/25). This was a lovely look back for all the...

Spring was definitely in the air at our March (10th) Meeting. We welcomed the lovely Judith Matthews from Loose Leaf Flowers based in...

Our February meeting was held on Monday 10th, we were visited by Cath Couzens, a Medical Herbalist from Woodside Apothecary. Our members...

Our first meeting of the New Year 2025 (Monday 13th January) & our members came along to welcome Victor Crawford who was raising money...

Our December Meeting / Christmas Party was on Monday (9/12/24) - fabulous evening - entertainment provided by Joy & Kevin Siddall - ‘A...

We welcomed Allan Williams from Royal British Legion Macclesfield Branch as our speaker - he gave us an insight into his career in the...

We welcomed a lovely lady from Quarry Bank in Styal at our meeting on Monday 14th October, Shan Bristow was very knowledgeable about the...

Great evening learning lots of hints & tips from our speaker Lisa Owen from ANSA - who knew you could put used cooking oil on your rose...

Lovely evening (12/8/24) spent at our local coffee shop Hannah’s Place - our members enjoyed a very relaxing social time. Thanks to...

To celebrate summer the committee decided to serve Pimms & lemonade at our July (8th) meeting - thankfully the weather didn’t let us down...