Nearing the end of the series, we come to the centenary of the Women’s Institute in 1997. The medal was designed and modelled by Mary Milner Dickens.

The first Women’s Institute was formed in 1897 at Stoney Creek, Ontario. The first WI meeting in the UK was held at Llanfair PG, Anglesey, on 11 September 1915 at the instigation of Canadian member Madge Watt.