Winchcombe WI knitters were awarded the Pat Jacobs Award at the GFWI meeting on Wednesday 24th March. To get the award, the WI had to do something to benefit the youth in the community, to be involved with children, ensuring the young people enjoy taking up a challenge, and progress learning forward to the next generation.
And indeed the children took up the challenge! Once a week for the past 4 years, 7 WI women had gone to the local primary school, Winchcombe Abbey Primary School and taught 14 year 4's, [9 year olds,] to knit. The project was for the children to knit squares, and one of the members then made all the squares into a blanket! At the end, the blanket was quite large! The children are really excited by this, and rightly proud of their achievements, and with the certificate they also earned.
The knitting sessions were held in the children's lunch time, and they came for 2 terms! They were really enthusiastic, and didn't fail to come for their lesson.
The first blanket was sent to India, and the second will be sent to Africa.
