Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
National Federation of Women’s Institutes. Wales
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
The first Women's Institute meeting of England and Wales was held in Llanfairpwll, Anglesey on 11 September 1915. The WI movement originanted in Canada and is the largest voluntary women’s membership in the UK with over 200,000 members. It is an educational, social, non-party political organisation. Members in Wales take part in national and local campaigns, including 'Get cooking', 'Gardening with Schools', 'Pathway to the 21st century project' and 'Menter Iaith Welsh language project'. The national headquarters of the WI, the National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI), is in London. The archives of the National Federation of Women's Institutes are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the London School of Economics. There is also an office in Cardiff, NFWI-Wales 19 Cathedral Rd, Pontcanna, Cardiff.