At a Special Meeting of the CFWI Board of Trustees today, officers for the 2019/20 year were elected. Margaret Johnson of Bodmin WI was elected Chairman. Penny Picton of Illogan WI was elected Treasurer. Vice-Chairmen are Jane Dover of Truro WI and Helen Kestle of Crowlas & Ludgvan WI. The rest of the Board is […]

Members of Mevagissey WI pose here with 100 twiddlemuffs made by their Knit n’ Natter Group for Royal Cornwall Hospital. This project marks the Centenary of CFWI. Well done, Mevagissey!

Bodmin Gaolbirds WI hosted a second very successful four corner craft day on Saturday 12 October at Lanivet Community Centre. Forty-five women from across Cornwall participated and each chose to complete two of the four Christmas-themed crafts available. A paper-crafted wreath, zentangle Christmas cards, a patchwork Christmas tree decoration and a beaded tree decoration. Homemade […]

This year’s Helston Fatstock Show will be held on Saturday 9th November at Franchis Farm in Helston. The theme of this year’s Co-Operative Entry is ‘The Night before Christmas’. See the full Show schedule here and an entry form here. Follow the Helston Fatstock Show Facebook page for updates and news. This year, the Show […]

At this week’s Annual Council Meeting, members of Week St Mary’s Bonaventures WI were fortunate to be given a box in the ballot. They decided to “do it in style” and dress up for the occasion. Pictured here are Sue Dyer, Sue Dickenson, Marilyn Reynolds and Christine Heard.

This year’s Blaikley Salver poetry competition, on the theme ‘My Green Heart’, was won by Sheila Allen of Roche Rockers WI. In case you weren’t at today’s Annual Council Meeting and missed hearing Sheila receite her prize-winning poem, we publish it here: My Green Heart The forest wakes from slumber in multi shades of green […]

Those of you were at the Regal Theatre today will know what a good time the Annual Council Meeting was! The Board of Trustees dressed up, each as a different decade, and talked a little bit about WI resolutions over the past 100 years. Special guest NFWI Chair Lynne Stubbings gave a brilliant and inspirational […]

  Crantock WI has led a community project ‘Remember Together’ (the theme of The Royal British Legion this year) and knitted and crocheted poppies. They aimed for 1,000 and now have over 3,300 – and the poppies are still coming in! Poppies have arrived from friends of Crantock all over the country and who have […]

Members of St Neot WI celebrated their birthday in style this autumn. CFWI Federation Chair Margaret Johnson was among the happy revellers.  

“We are all made of stardust”, a quote by Carl Sagan, opened a fascinating evening at Porthleven WI last week. The speaker, Clint, from the Cornwall Sea to Stars project, came along to explain why stars shine. Members were given the chance to touch a meteorite and were surprised to learn that their gold jewellery […]