Puriton and District WI
In June 2016 members of Puriton and District WI once again braved the muddy fields of Glastonbury to proudly serve WI Homemade cakes and tea to festival goers.
It was such a pleasure to meet so many fellow WI members and some famous faces too!
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Read about our journey to Glastonbury in 2015 Here
For details on our 2016 journey, please click Here.
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The road to Glastonbury
One bake at a time - June 2015
We are a group of WI members who proudly served homemade cakes in the Green Futures Fields at Glastonbury. Vegan, gluten free & traditional delights!
This page details our trip to Glastonbury, one bake at a time!
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The art of Vegan Bakery
Well, we have really started our preparation for the first WI Tea & Cakes Stand at Glastonbury Festival.
A gathering of WI Sisters learnt the art of vegan baking from WI Legend Joanne Croxford (Cambridge Blue Belles WI/Daisy Change WI) on Saturday 2nd May.
We spent a morning discussing our plans as cakes rose in my oven through the magic of baking powder, and care…we even tried some totally ‘free-from’ bakes - using gluten free flour alongside the dairy free products.
Et voila! Gorgeous, light, airy and DELICIOUS
The WI Glasto Cakes teamthen tucked into said gluten free vegan victoria sponge! YUM!
WI members from across Somerset have taken the challenge of this mighty bakeathon, and will be producing their finest cakes (including many suitable for those with specialist requirements).
Brave sisters of the Somerset Federation will bake a force to be reckoned with for Glasto's Green Fields
Lovely Ladies from Somerset WIs, and across the UK, will be taking a turn on the Tea & Cakes Stand in the Green Fields at this greatest of festivals to ensure that the world knows the wonder of WI! We will be sharing our love of all things cake and tea, as well as letting our customers know the massive amount of phenomenal campaigns the WI runs and supports. To top it all we will hopefully raise some much needed funds for our sisters at ACWW!
So, if you fancy a cuppa and a catch-up, we will be ready and waiting for you for the whole of Glastonbury Festival 2015!
x Katie (Secretary, Puriton & District WI)
This weekend sees the start of some serious promotion. Our posts are being seen all around the Country and we are grateful to those wonderful WI sisters for sharing!
We have been in contact with local BBC and the national press, promoting our exciting adventure for our Centenary Year! We'll be featuring exclusively in this weekend's Mail on Sunday and Joanne will be joining the Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on the same day from 09:15 - 09:45.
In the meantime, practicalities are being covered too. We are so lucky to have so many offers of bakes from the fantastic ladies of Somerset - a truly magnificent effort pulling us all together! Our fabulous team are sourcing mugs and plates - no paper nonsense for the WI of course, and we have sorted our water supply, and are organising refrigeration and the like too…it is all beginning to feel very real!
Keep looking out for our posts and updates friends!
Best wishes, Katie Newell (Secretary, Puriton and District WI)
