St Andrew's Community Service

Last Sunday we spent a lovely morning at a special service for users of St Andrew’s United Reform Church in Broomhall, where we hold our monthly meetings . We were made very welcome. 

Many different Christian churches use the space for worship including Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and Chinese and Congolese worshippers. They gave us a flavour of their ceremonies with song, dance and readings. Then we had a delicious lunch and were served freshly brewed Ethiopian coffee! 

Although the WI is a non-religious organisation, we love being part of a centre like St Andrew's that is very much part of the community and welcomes people from all over the world to use the venue including a playgroup, soup kitchen, breakfast club and child contact centre. 

Michelle Cook
Committee member

Our new home

We're very happy to say that from Janaury 2016 our meetings will be held at Saint Andrew's United Reformed Church.

We found out only a week ago that we needed to leave Electric Works after December's meeting and after a frantic few dozen emails to local venues, we found Saint Andrew's.

The church itself is warm and welcoming, and we will have access to a fully functional kitchen for our tea and coffee making facilties. There is disabled access and baby change facilities. And our President will no longer have to lug all our meeting bits and bobs backwards and forewards every month - the church has storage space! Hurrah!

Overall we think we've found a great space and a new home for our WI.