ATHERTON WI has organised a fruity delight to help cancer sufferers. A strawberry fayre takes place on Friday, July 6, from 2pm-4pm in Atherton's Jubilee Hall. Admission is £1.50, children 75p, including refreshments, with proceeds to the day ward at the Christie Hospital. Help for hospice A COFFEE morning will be open at the Kingsleigh Methodist Church, Leigh, between 9.30am and noon tomorrow. Cakes and preserves, bric-a-brac and books will be on sale. Proceeds go to Wigan and Leigh Hospice. Family group A PARENT and toddler group has been set up on Atherton's Hag Fold estate. The group meets in the Dorset Road Community Centre each Tuesday from 1pm to 2.45pm. Admission £1 adults, 25p children. All parents and children under five are invited to join the afternoons of fun. Busy month for WI CULCHETH WI had a busy June meeting with a flower arranging competition, a monologue from Joan Bickett and a fashion quiz. There will be no meeting in July, but everyone will be welcome to the August 21 meeting when Ms Y Ellis will speak on "Say Yes and Panic Later". Mum's a winner! MU'O-BE Alyson Bullough had a top tip for caring for a baby - always use the best products. Her advice won her a £25 prize from Johnson and Johnson and Asda. Alyson, of Elm Street, Leigh, attended at two-hour baby clinic at the Leigh store and walked off with the competition prize of a Johnson's baby skin care box of goodies. History of entertainment LEIGH archivist Tony Ashcroft gave an illustrated talk on old cinemas and theatres in the area at Newchurch WI. He told members that although Culcheth did not have a cinema,"the pictures" came to the village in 1935 when talkies were shown every Monday with an old cinematograph.

Raffle winners were M France, E Daggett, I Bromilow, B Maguire and J Ellison and the competition winners for a pre 1939 photograph were D Holden, P Poulter and O Lee. The next meeting is on July 11 when the speaker Sylvia Briercliffe speaks on 'Organic Gardening - Plus". Looking after carers WIGAN and Leigh Crossroads (Caring for Carers) will benefit from a strawberry fayre on July 7, between 2pm and 5pm, in Kingsleigh Methodist Church, Leigh. Tickets are £2 adults, £1 children.