WI adviser Suzanne Owen presided at the annual meeting and in her address commented that the group is held up as an example to others, as it had an active membership and had grown since it began six years ago.

The Competition Shield was presented to joint winners Kath Oakley and Yvonne O'Shaughness. Yvonne Welsh won the bursary to Denman College.

Joyce Betteridge was re-elected as president.

Competitions will be suspended for the coming year due to lack of entries.

The speaker at the meeting in the Memorial Park, Stourport, on Wednesday, starting at 10am, will be Ken Giles with An Ode With Ken, and the competition will be for an eight-line poem starting "I wish...".

A Christmas shopping trip to Oxford has been organised for Wednesday, November 28.

Then Christmas is Coming on Friday, December 7 at Kidderminster Town Hall, starting at 7.30pm.