Foursomes Teams Go for Gold

On Saturday the 6^th December, SAYFC members filled The Royal Bank of Scotland Business School & Conference Centre with a wonderful array of crafts, flowers and baking for our National Foursomes Competition.

This year’s theme was ‘Commonwealth Games’ to celebrate the event’s return to Scotland in 2026. Each competing team’s tray included; a floral display, a sewn article, four decorated cupcakes and a further article. We had 16 entries on the day, 5 Junior teams and 11 senior teams. With a wonderful level of the creativity and skill on display across the competition.

Our Judges from the Fife District of the WI were certainly impressed by the standard of entries with one judge remarking:

“The designs of trays were really excellent; they had really thought them out. It was obvious that quite a lot of teamwork had gone on. The displays were coordinated, and the teams had obviously worked well together. The standard was very high. It’s nice to see young people doing things like this and working together in teams.”

National Junior Foursomes Results

1^st Place- Biggar- Joanna Dale, Cate Leipe, Skye McInnes & Caitlin Tweedie

2^nd Place- Biggar- Ryan Adamson, Libby Cuthbertson, Lauren Smith & Ava Tweedie

3^rd Place- Peeblesshire- Lacey Harrison, Millie McCallister, Miranda Reid & Frankie Smellie

Floral display – Caitlin Tweedie, Biggar

Sewn article – Miranda Reid, Peeblesshire

Decorated cupcakes – Joanna Dale, Biggar

Further article – Lacey Harrison, Peeblesshire

Appearance & Display – Skye McInnes, Biggar

National Senior Foursomes Results

1^st Place- Carluke- Joanne Hall, Mhairi Hall & Sarah Paterson

2^nd Place- Mauchline- Fiona Gemmell, Stella Hill, Erin McGhie & Beth Robertson

3^rd Place- Peeblesshire- Emma Gray, Freya Harrison, Eilidh McSporran & Kirsty Smellie

Floral display – Fiona Gemmell, Mauchline

Sewn article – Kirsty Smellie, Peeblesshire

Cupcakes – Sofia Lindsay, Crossroads

Further article – Joanne Hall, Carluke

A&D – Joanne Hall – Carluke

Foursomes Judges – Fife District of WI

Well done to our winners and to all our competitors for their fantastic entries. Joanne Hall, member of Carluke’s winning senior team talked about the work and people behind their successful entry:

“As a club, Carluke is thrilled to have secured the Senior National Foursomes title for the first time in recent history. It means a great deal to us, and it’s wonderful to see our hard work recognised. A big thank you to our amazing coach, Rosemary Hunter, and to our handicrafts convenor, Sarah Paterson”

Thanks once again to our judges from the Fife District WI, our competition Stewards Fiona Cuthbertson and Louise Greenhill, and to The Royal Bank of Scotland for hosting the competition in their Business School & Conference Centre.