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District 11 Chairman Mary Fenn
January 10th 1924 now known around the world as IIW Day!
Margaretta Golding held the first Inner Wheel meeting in Manchester in November of 1923 with 27 ladies present. Eager to help within the community, 80 knitted woollen baby outfits were made and delivered to the local hospital in time for Christmas and funds raised for their inaugural meeting on January 10th.
'After considerable discussion', the rules of the club were resolved and "The Inner Wheel Club of Manchester" name duly adopted, creating a firm foundation and ingeniously indicating the Rotary connection.
Membership grew steadily and had doubled within the year, but the influence of the Manchester Club, lay not only in its active charitable work locally, but in its vigorous help in the formation of other clubs, until in 1928 Margarette Golding, a lady very much ahead of her time, put before the Manchester Club a proposal, with far reaching consequences, that steps should be taken to unite all women's clubs, existing alongside Rotary Clubs.
I wonder what she would make of our situation today and all the technology involved r communicating with our members. No doubt she would be embracing the new methods for IW to continue its much needed service during the Pandemic.
Clubs in our District are doing their best, as at Christmas the donations to food banks and refuges and the shoeboxes all helped.
IIW Day is being used to hold club quizzes, frugal lunches, bingo on line, all to try an event, to help raise funds for the international charity they are supporting this year and to continue friendship in our clubs.
Best Wishes, yours in Friendship,
International Inner Wheel is one of the largest women's voluntary service organisations in the world with more than 100,000 members in 104 countries and representation at the United Nations. District 11 is one of 29 Districts in Great Britain and Ireland and we have 25 Clubs located in Hampshire, adjacent parts of Dorset and Wiltshire, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands.
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