Tytherington Treacles​ WI

The Autumn meeting of the Cheshire Peaks Group (15/10/25) was attended by over 20 of our members, who enjoyed an informative & insight into the history of style icon Mary Quant. Lucy from The History Wardrobe was very entertaining, demonstrating the clothing styles & accessories made famous by Mary Quant starting from the 1950s upto the present day. There was also a fabulous craft stall & the competition for this meeting was ‘anything Geometric/psychedelic design in any media

‘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

A glorious evening to do our ‘midnight walk’ starting at Marlborough School, walking along the Macclesfield canal & Middlewood way, raising funds for the ECH Bed Appeal. A few of us even visited the Brocklehurst Pub to round off the evening. A Really great social event enjoyed by all. Thanks to Valerie & Janet for leading the way & all our members who have kindly donated.

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

Great day selling our cakes at Macclesfield Fire Station Open Day - thanks to all our members who volunteered their time and baked cakes & buns. We made a grand total of £136.80 which will be split between the Fire Station & the ECH Bed Appeal

We had a lovely sunny visit to Quarry Bank Mill, Styal on Monday 11th August, organised by Viv Braddock, unable to meet for our August...

THANK YOU to all our lovely knitters - just dropped off … 50 Baby Blankets 94 cuddle squares 74 various sizes of hats 1 knitted dress & 4...

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...

We had a great time at Marlborough School fair running a fabulous cake stall - BIG THANKS to our members who donated cakes & buns, manned...

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

26 Bereavement Bags delivered today to the End of Life Partnership at the hospital. June 2025

What a lovely evening we had at Periwinkle & Clay in Macclesfield - who knew our lovely Treacles were so artistic . After we had all...

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...

Just dropped our can donations off at Silklife Food Bank in Macclesfield - thanks again Treacles

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...

A BIG THANK YOU to all our lovely knitters I took all the baby blankets (60), cuddle squares (106), hats (87) & little jackets, cardigans...