Workshops, trips, and special events are organised throughout the year.
Open to Saddleworth WI members only.
For details, email [email protected]
You can also check the notice board at our monthly meetings for more info.
Have ideas? We’d love to hear them! Please drop suggestions into the Suggestion Box at meetings.
Our current events are noted below. Booking can be made at the meeting or by emailing [email protected]
OPERATION MINCEMEAT

Date: Tuesday 17th February
Venue: Lowry Theatre, Salford
Price: £50 per person
SOLD OUT
We have tickets available for the 2024 Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical.
The year is 1943 and right now we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse.
WAIT UNTIL DARK
Date: Tuesday 21st April
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Millgate Theatre, Delph
Price: £12.50 per person
A West End and Broadway hit, this masterfully constructed thriller moves from one moment of suspense to another as it builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping final scene.
ENTERTAINING ANGELS
Date: Monday 27th April
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Guide Bridge Theatre
Price: £9.00 per person
‘I’ve poured two hundred thousand cups of tea, made four thousand six hundred medium-sized quiches and personally baked two tons of light crust pastry. And for what?’
As a clergy wife Grace has spent a lifetime on best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph, she is enjoying the new-found freedom of being able to do and say exactly as she pleases.
But the return of her eccentric missionary sister, Ruth, together with some disturbing revelations forces Grace to confront the truth of her marriage.
CHEESE & WINE TASTING
Date: Friday 22nd May
Time: 6.45pm
Venue: Abaco. Uppermill
Price: £37.50 per person
BLUE STOCKINGS
Date: Saturday 13th June
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Millgate Theatre, Delph
Price: £12.50 per person
A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage.
CANAL BOAT TRIP WITH LUNCH
Date: Friday 17th July
Time: 12.00 – 4.00pm
Venue: Castlefield, Manchester
Price: £35.00 per person
A 3-4 hour circular voyage which starts in Castlefield, in the heart of Roman Manchester, with a fully licensed bar, galley and central heating, and food freshly prepared aboard.
PANTO FINAL NIGHT (ADULT)
Date: Sunday 3rd January 2027
Time: 1.00pm
Venue: Opera House, Manchester
Price: £38.00 per person
Manchester’s pantomime will be paved with gold as comedy sensation Jason Manford and panto favourite Ben Nickless return to the Opera House to star in Dick Whittington.
More events in the investigating/planning stage…
Details to follow soon!
