Inverness  Inner Wheel is part of Inner Wheel District 1, and we meet at Kingsmills Hotel, Inverness IV2 4LF.  Meetings are held at 12.30pm for 1pm  on the first Thursday of the month.   No formal meetings are held in July & August but coffee mornings, fundraising and social events continue throughout the year.

Inverness is one of the fastest growing cities in the U.K. it scores highly in terms of quality of life for residents. Located in the centre of the Scottish Highlands beautiful scenery surrounds us and the city itself is picturesquely situated on the banks of the River Ness. We have many tourist attractions in the area , the most popular being Culloden Battlefield and Loch Ness where visitors always hope to catch a glimpse of the elusive Nessie.

On Thursday 6th February Inverness Inner Wheel Club and Inverness Rotary Club enjoyed a joint Burns lunch. 70 people attended and we were welcomed by Rotary President John Cuthbert. Our own Heather carried in the haggis accompanied by Doug Stewart on the fiddle. John addressed the haggis and Sheila Moir, our Secretary said the Selkirk Grace. We all enjoyed a meal of haggis neeps and tatties, coffee/tea and shortbread. After lunch we were entertained by songs from Mairi Cuthbert, our President, and her husband John, some fiddle and guitar music and a couple of recitations. A most enjoyable time was had by all.

A very successful Quiz Night was held at the end of November.  This was a joint event with the Rotary Club of Inverness.  Over 100 were in attendance in spite of adverse weather predictions.  After the quiz a supper was served and a raffle was drawn.  Sadly District Chairman Jean & her husband Tim were unable to make the trip – following Police & Traffic Scotland ‘s advice for travel during Storm Bert!  Club Secretary Sheila Moir made these lovely wooden spoons as prizes – in the shape of Lifeboat crewmen! Way to go girls!!!  WELL DONE Inverness! 

Inverness IW had a splendid Christmas lunch at the Kingsmills Hotel on Thursday for over 80 members and friends. People were very generous in buying gifts from a wonderful craft stall, raffles, jigsaw and holly wreaths raising £1500 +.  We were beautifully entertained by members of Inverness Choral singing carols.  Thank you everyone for a great afternoon.

Club members enjoyed showing 2 Inner Wheel ladies from Denmark the sights and some excellent Highland hospitlity for a few days prior to the International Convention in Manchester 

Inverness Club members at the International Inner Wheel Convention. With members is James Sheerin who was selling Centenary Gin on the stall with Colin Campbell (Aberdeen).

Our Club has been involved in a joint venture with the 4 Inverness Rotary Clubs in supplying items for Ukraine.  The initial apeal was for toiletries and a second colection was for bedding and most recently baby items and paracetamol.

President  Sandra with all the  knitted goods created  by our Inner Wheel  members. 

Our congratulsations to Sheila Cooper who has received a Paul Harris Fellowship from Inverness Rotary.  This is awarded for “service above self” which we all know Sheila has given to Inner Wheel over a very long period, serving both her club and the District Executiv as well as 3 very interesting years travelling to London and Conferences as a member of the Association Finance Committee.  Well done, Sheila! 

For more information on Inverness Inner Wheel or any of the clubs in District 1 please contact

innerwheeldistrict1@outlook.com

Inverness  President  2024 – 25

Mairi Cuthbert

On the occasion of their 65th Birthday the club got great publicity for their work with an excellent write up and pictures in the Inverness Courier.  As well as this picture of the whole club attending their Birthday Meeting – the work of Heather, Mairi & Margaret were featured for thier contributions to 100 for 100!  Way to go ladies – certainly SHINING A LIGHT!

DC Jean had to reschedule her Club visit to Inverness. A video of her talk was provided instead of face-to-face on 3rd October. Jean did meet up with some Inverness members at the Banff Club’s Birthday lunch on 2 November and is pictured below and Jean will meet up later in the month.

Our speaker in May was Peter Harkins from Mary’s Meals. We were delighted to be able to hand over a cheque to help with the work of the charity.  Pic shows ISO  Jennifer Brown handing over a cheque.  

We hold 2 walks per year – this ine along the River Ness to the new  Archimedes Screw which generates electricity from from the power of the river, was to support the charity SCAA.