In Farmers’ Weekly dated 4th January 1948 the concept of the Club for Farm Women was launched. Sitting alongside, and not conflicting with, other women’s organisations, the club was an experiment, endorsed by women from the farming community with the intention of keeping people who were living fairly isolated lives in contact with each other.  ​ Since then hundreds of women have been meeting regularly across the country to share new experiences, visit new places, learn new things usually over a cup of coffee and, most importantly, chat.  ​

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In 2008 Farmers' Weekly decided to cease running the Club and it was 'taken over' by it's membership forming a new voluntary management team under the name of Country Women Countrywide.  This ensured the links were maintained and the Farm Women's Club name lived on.

(Click on Management Team to find out more about us)

Of course, other things have changed - Covid 19 certainly interfered with the way some clubs operated.  Some are back to holding their meetings as before, others now meet

for lunch or coffee in order to keep those social ties alive.

But some things certainly haven't changed :

 the enthusiasm for what we do

the fun we have doing it

welcoming new members and

the pleasure it gives when old friends meet up.    

To find out more about what we do, when and how, you can JOIN NOW