Beginning this Thursday (25th July) for a full week, we are inviting all members, families and friends to come and have a look at our Archive collection at Chy Noweth. Come and see some of our historical treasures you may never have seen before – including our wartime canning machine! We’ll be open from Thursday […]

Solving a knotty problem last week resulted in Trevone WI creating celebratory sand art on the beach in aid of their 90th birthday. A huge bundle of knotted fishing rope and plastic had been untangled by members at their recent ‘Knot Just a Coffee Morning’, and Emily Stevenson of Beach Guardian, along with the WI […]

A lovely day was spent recently at St Dominick Church with members learning about church floral arrangements. Fifteen WI members attended from all over Cornwall. The church, which now looks beautiful and full of blooms, would like to extend thanks to the Floral Art & Gardening sub-committee for arranging the day.

Maker with Rame WI celebrated their 65th birthday along with the CFWI’s 100th birthday by holding a celebratory tea party last week. Members from local WIs were invited as was CFWI Chairman Margaret Johnson who was delighted to be included. The members drank Pimms as they paraded in their hats, and enjoyed quizzes and games […]

Coads Green WI member, Geraldine Rennie, and her husband Andy climbed Ben Nevis 33 years ago, after completing the West Highland Way. The pair then started to climb more of the Munros, 282 Scottish mountains over 3000 feet, on different holidays, but never intended to climb them all. In their retirement, with more time on […]

Last week, three members of Crowlas & Ludgvan WI were delighted to be invited to a lunch party at The Eden Project to celebrate the 10th birthday of The Big Lunch. The very special guest was HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.  Crowlas & Ludgvan, working together with Ludgvan Church, held a very successful Big Lunch […]

Porthleven WI enjoyed a fascinating talk about beekeeping at their July meeting. Speaker Jeff Kitto explained how he had been introduced to beekeeping at a young age. He told the members how he looks after his bees, the dangers they are facing and how everyone can help. All wild bees have now disappeared and it […]

We just received this lovely photo from last month’s Pond Day. The day was organised by our Floral Art & Gardening sub-committee, and the photo was taken by Trevor Wiltshire, who led the group and taught them “all about ponds”.

Did you know that businesses all over the country will fill up your water bottle with lovely fresh tap water for you? There are over 20,000+ Refill Stations nationwide, so refilling your water bottle for free has never been easier. Of course, many of these are restaurants, cafes and pubs, but you may be surprised […]

The assembly at Mawnan School last Wednesday was a little bit different, as some WI members from Mawnan Reading Partners joined the pupils in the hall. They were there to listen to seven members of the Year 5 and 6 Book Club talking about some of the stories which they had read over the last […]