Mitford Women’s Institute meets in the Community Centre on the second Wednesday of every month for a formal meeting and to hear talks from a wide range of interesting speakers.
The next meeting will be on the 9th of June when the topic will be "Women's Refuge".
MITFORD WI
MEETING REPORT.
MAY 2010.
The Mitford WI members met for their Annual General Meeting on an evening of pleasant sunshine but unseasonally very cold winds. Nothing daunted, members were reminded of the past year’s activities, including a highly successful Group Meeting held in Mitford Community Centre, when 67 members from local WIs attended a very pleasant social evening with a pooled supper and entertainment.
For the AGM, the WI Advisor was Heather Abrahams who, once she was assured that we had covered the pending resolution for the National AGM to be held in London, gave a short but moving personal account of the importance of joining the national organ donor register. She assured us that the age limit for donations was no longer 60, but in some circumstances it could be up to 90 and that corneas were nearly always accepted. She also informed us that relatives would always be asked if they were happy to follow the donor’s wishes. This did cause some debate on the ethics of being overruled in death by one of our relatives!
Despite this the majority of members said that they would consider joining and one way that that this can easily be done is at the time of renewing a driving licence. This is every 3 years once a person has reached the age of 70, very relevant for many of the Mitford members.
All in all, there was much room for thought and hopefully it will result in many members becoming registered organ donors.
