It was a beautiful sunny autumn day when we welcomed Jessica Glover from the Benjamin Foundation as our guest speaker into the recently refurbished Swallowtails restaurant at Broom Hall. The Benjamin Foundation is celebrating its 25th anniversary. It reaches out to provide young people with the support and help they need and which may not…

Jan Godfrey, MBE Sadly, our lovely Jan Godfrey MBE passed away in July. Jan was chair of The Wayland Partnership and worked tirelessly to improve the Wayland area, and quality of lives of those living in the town of Watton and surrounding villages.  WWIB was initially formed by The Wayland Partnership and now continues to…

Once again our summer meeting was held at College farm where we were treated to a lovely afternoon tea baked by Katharine Wolstenholme. Sadly the sun didn’t shine for us this year but the panelled dining room was a lovely place for us to meet and chat!

We had a brilliant start to the year with our Spring Lunch at Broom Hall Country Hotel where our guest speaker was Watton Mayor Tina Kiddell. Tina was working at M&S in London when she looked down the street and decided that she wanted to be a black cab driver in the City. After 2…

We started of the festive season in good cheer with plenty of atmosphere at Broom Hall. We welcomed our guest speaker, Kathy Webb from Palm & Sole in the Norwich Lanes, who creates, develops and blends aromatherapy products. She also holds workshops and experience events which celebrate how unique each person is. Kathy has spent…

On a beautiful Autumn day we returned to Broom Hall Country Hotel for our lunch, where we welcome Candi Robertson along as our guest speaker. Candi is the face and passion behind Candi’s chutneys, a business she started 7 years ago having been a professional chef for over 20 years Candi started making chutney for…