To celebrate and showcase our inspiring members and the strength shown by WIs to thrive and continue, you are invited to take part in the Elizabeth Bell Challenge 2021-2022. Dr Elizabeth Bell (1869 -1934) - Elizabeth Gould Bell was born in Newry, County Down. She and her sister Margaret were among the first five women to enter the Medical Faculty of Queen’s College Belfast in 1889 when female students were first admitted. Of these, only Bell and Henrietta Rosetta Neill went on to achieve their university degrees (in 1893) rather than the diploma from licensing bodies which was the more usual route for women medics at that time. Bell was an active member of the ongoing suffrage movement, joining the Belfast-based Irish Women’s Suffrage Society and the Women’s Social and Political Union. As one of the early believers in the need for militant action, she was arrested in London in 1911 for throwing stones at the windows of Swan & Edgar’s department store. As a result, she and her friend Margaret Robinson spent time in Holloway Prison. During the period of heightened tension in the years just before the war, she cared for hunger-striking suffragette prisoners in Crumlin Road Jail. (Source: Elizabeth Bell - A Century Of Women )
Running from January – December 2021, WIs were invited to compose a record demonstrating how their members have worked together to engage and support one another throughout the year; offering opportunities that have united their members, as well as successfully marketing the WI to increase their membership.
For full details of the Elizabeth Bell 2021 Schedule please click on the .pdf link below.
Running from January – December 2021, WIs were invited to compose a record demonstrating how their members have worked together to engage and support one another throughout the year; offering opportunities that have united their members, as well as successfully marketing the WI to increase their membership.
For full details of the Elizabeth Bell 2021 Schedule please click on the .pdf link below.
- The closing date for entry submission was 7th February 2022. Entries were first judged at Federation level, and up to 3 entries submitted to the national competition.
- No correspondence will be entered into after the above date.
- A representative from the winning WI nationally will be presented with the Elizabeth Bell trophy at the NFWI's Annual Meeting 2022.
- The winning entry, runners up plus a selection of chosen entries will be retained by the NFWI for display purposes until December 2022. The NFWI reserves the right to use images of these entries on WI social media channels, My WI and in WI Life. Photographs will be acknowledged to each WI.
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