The Powhatan Junior Woman's Club is an organization dedicated to community improvement by enhancing the lives of others through volunteer service. The club is a non-profit, volunteer organization, which was organized and federated in 1964. The purpose of the club is to promote friendship, share talents within the community, encourage interest in education, philanthropy, public welfare, moral values, fine arts and to enrich its members lives and the lives of others by becoming an active volunteer.

The Powhatan Junior Woman's Club sponsors and supports various projects and events within the community including the Annual Holiday Gift Harvest, the Powhatan Christmas Mother, Relay for Life, the Powhatan County Public Library and more. In addition, the club provides scholarships to local high school students.

The club is led by a slate of officers, which are elected each club year.

For more information contact:

Club President - Marcie Morgan @ 804.598.2160
First Vice President - Leigh Herring @ 804.403.3564
Second Vice President & Membership Chairman - Joy Matkowsky @ 804.897.3339
Recording Secretary - Patty Hicks
Treasurer - Betsy Perkins
Corresponding Secretary - Mary Catherine Taylor

Our meetings are held at the Armory in Fighting Creek Park just pass the YMCA and County Library. Our meetings are from September thru May every Third Tuesday starting at 7:00 pm. Membership is open to women over the age of 18.  For more information on the club or to find out how to become a member, please call Joy Matkowsky at 897-3339. A babysitter is provided for our meetings.

• We collect aluminum cans at each club meeting and with the money we raised, we sent a local Powhatan student to Forestry Camp at Holiday Lake in June.
• We participate every year with the Christmas Mother program adopting a family and helping out in other ways that the program needs.
• We have donated to the Robbie Green fund.
• We sell used books and videos at our Holiday Gift Harvest and give all the proceeds to the public school library.
• We donate food and items to the Armory every month that we meet, this helps give back to the soldiers in our community.
• A local solider lost his home due to fire, our club chipped in and sent the family a donation to get back on their feet.
• We send care packages to soldiers who are serving in Iraq.
• We get donated items from local businesses and put together what we call a "teacher tote" and present them to New Powhatan Teachers at their teacher orientation in August.
• This is just a small portion of what our club does each year.

We would love to meet you ... share our mission with you ... and share our love for our community!