President Christine Farquhar welcomed 32 members, 2 guests and one new member to the April meeting. Last month’s minutes were proposed, seconded and signed.

Dawn has prepared the material for next month’s Resolution meeting, ‘Bystanders can be Life Savers’ and Carol has agreed to give the presentation. Christine encouraged members to bring along their friends and family members to see if they would like to join Castle Green this year.

Daphne will be selling NFWI Raffle tickets at the next few monthly meetings and forms were available for those who wanted to order NFWI 2026 diaries.

Hythe Morning have sent us all an invitation to a ‘Watch Party’ to be held in the Tin Tabernacle in Hythe on 4 June for the NFWI AGM – sign up asap with Biddy £5 per person.

Carol spoke about the new garden group – details of their first meeting and outing can be seen here.

Biddy gave further details of her Bluebell woods coffee morning, click here for more details.

For this year’s Summer outing in June members voted to visit Bilsington Priory for a tour followed by tea and scones – more details here.

Straight after the business part of the meeting we welcomed Josie Chisholm who ran her workshop for us all to make felt brooches.

Coffee and cakes were consumed while we assembled the wool strands and then rolled them for 20 minutes.

After much wet rolling the felt was ready and we then cut out and sewed together our flowers.