District 12 Inner Wheel

Folkestone Inner Wheel Club

About our Club

Our monthly meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday of the month at Voco, The Clifton Hotel, Folkestone CT20 2EB 6.15 for 6.45 except for the months of Nov, Dec, Feb and March when we hold a lunch time meeting 12.15 for 12.45. Please contact the Secretary if you would like to join us for one of our meetings.

The aim of the club is to enjoy the friendship of nearly thirty members through our monthly meetings, various outings and social events whilst raising money for local, national and international charities. We are again this year supporting a number of local charities.


 We welcome any ladies wishing to find out more about our club and Inner Wheel.

For further information please use 'Contact Us' link on this page.


Club Officers for 2025 to 2026

Name Office Charity

Rosemary Milsted

President Local charities
Isobel Salisbury Secretary
Janet Eaton
Treasurer 
Rosemary Milsted  International Service
Doreen Cooke-Davies Correspondent 
TBC Membership Officer 

A snapshot of some recently enjoyed events in IW year 2025 to 2026

Our Monthly Meeting with DC Pat Visit to Gingerly Green Flower Farm
with a Cream Tea
Sponsored Knit-In
Our monthly meeting with DC Pat Folkestone 2 Gingerly Green
Sponsored Knit In
All ready for our very popular
New Year Frugal Lunch
Preparation for our
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Doreen Cooke-Davies with some of our
 filled 'Love in a Box'
Frugal lunch preparation Praparation for our Macmillan Coffee Morning Love in a Box

    

Highlights of last year

Highlights of last year included: Bowling,  Christmas Craft, Coffee mornings, Fish & Chip Supper, Pottery Painting and Wine & Cheese Tasting. Last year some of the local branches we supported were Age UK, Baby Basics, Foodstop, Pilgrims Hospice and the Rainbow Centre.

For International Service we support the District Rally and chosen charity, the Blythswood shoe boxes and any other international disasters that might occur during the year


MONTHLY PROGRAMME 2025/2026

Aug 6th Visit to Gingerly Green flower farm & cream tea

Sep 3th Speaker Meeting - How banking has changed

Sept 26th Macmillan Coffee Morning at Voco The Clifton Hotel (fund raiser)

Oct 1st Business Meeting - District Chair visit

Oct 6th Collection of filled Love in the Boxes and social at member's house

Nov 5th Speaker lunch time meeting - Shane Record, well-known local artist

Dec 3rd Christmas Meal

Jan 9th Frugal Lunch with homemade soup and crumbles (fund raiser)

Feb 4th Lunch meeting - speaker/activity to be confirmed

Mar 4th Lunch Meeting - Club elections & Social

Apr 1st Dinner meeting - talk on pearls from one of our members

May 6th Dinner speaker meeting - Stroke awareness

June 3rd Dinner at a local restaurant

July 1st Club AGM & Handover

As well as the above, we also meet monthly for coffee at Hythe Imperial


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