To all Treasurers of WIs in Cornwall: When paying your One Bill account, please note that the following items should be deducted from the total amount due: £16 – NFWI pooling of fares £4.50 – CFWI preview calendar £11.50 – CFWI Spring Countdown visitor ticket For the £39 due for your National Annual Meeting link […]

Happy Easter to all our members across Cornwall from the Board of Trustees and the Chy Noweth staff. We hope you’re all staying home and staying safe!

Members of Constantine have been writing to men and women in a couple of local care homes. They send a few letters and cards a week each. Most of the members are, for one reason or another, having to stay at home. Liz Pearce says, “My postman takes my letters for me, so I don’t […]

A message from Cornwall Council Carbon Neutral Cornwall Cornwall’s wonderful community spirit has once again, predictably, excelled and it is with that marvellous spirit that we will be able to endure and thrive during these unprecedented times of the Coronavirus pandemic and climate change. We hope you are well and keeping healthy. If you or […]

Once again, CFWI Climate Ambassadors teamed up with our Climate Coalition partners for a Valentine’s Day (almost) Show the Love event in February, this time kindly hosted by The Godolphin in Marazion. About 100 WI members, RSPB staff and volunteers, local environmental organisations and members of the public, as well as our local MP Derek […]

We were contacted by Cornwall Cloth Masks, a local initiative whose aim it is to sew cloth masks that will be used by nurses and community carers visiting vulnerable people in their homes. The group is working on the basis of an approved pattern that can easily be sewn by people with some degree of […]

Celia from Wilcove WI is part of the team responsible for running their four-corner craft days. She would like to share her instructions for making beautiful homemade painted gift tags. She says, “I thought it would be a good way to keep positive, enjoy and experiment with watercolours” using equipment you may already have in […]

Mawnan WI has been keeping in touch with its members and looking at ways to keep members’ spirits up. An Easter craft workshop had been scheduled prior to Covid-19 and, with everyone isolating at home, the WI decided that they would just do it from their homes! The workshop leader forwarded some ideas and the […]

A network of community volunteers in St Minver are celebrating after receiving an anonymous donation of £3000 to continue to fund twice-weekly meals for vulnerable residents self-isolating due to COVID-19. So far they have relied on the generosity of local chef Paul Ainsworth, but this grant means the meals can be supplied for the next […]

Over the past weeks, we have all been  been inspired by stories of communities pulling together to help those who are vulnerable. Even in these difficult times, beautiful things are possible when we work together. The Climate Coalition would like to send you some motivation – highlights of last month’s Show The Love campaign – […]