St Stephen-in-Brannel WI’s walking group the ‘Willing Walkers’ are pictured here enjoying the Cornish sunshine on a recent walk to Towan Beach from Portscatho along the coastal path. The Willing Walkers meet once a month to enjoy lunch as well as a scenic walk in a different Cornish location.

There were many more walkers than usual in Mawnan Smith last Sunday when Mawnan WI opened a dozen gardens belonging to members and friends to raise funds for the Children’s Hospice South West. From mid-morning, tickets were on sale in The Square and more than 350 trail maps were handed out. Families and groups of […]

Home Support workers are now available in Cornwall through Age UK. This is a paid-for service that can help with domestic cleaning, kitchen and bathroom service, shopping, companionship service, laundry and more. Ring the Home Support helpline for more information: (01872) 266383.

Here’s a good idea for a WI outing! Helston Town Council will be holding free guided heritage tours in Helston every Thursday at 10.30am and 2pm from the 1st August to the 31st October 2019.  There is no need to book, but if you’d like more information, please contact enquiries@helston-tc.gov.uk or (01326) 572063.

St Columb Major Parish Church invites all to their Feast of Festivals and Flowers.  It will include an exhibition of church vestments, altar frontals, treasures and floral arrangements celebrating church festivals and saints. There will also be a daily raffle, refreshments and a children’s quiz, as well as organ-playing, music and bellringing demonstrations.  The Festival […]

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 […]