More Christmas County Lunches around Cornwall – this time at Whitsand Bay Hotel in Torpoint. Do you recognise any of this happy bunch?

If you weren’t at the Eden Project tonight, you missed out on a real treat! About 230 WI members from all over Cornwall were there and enjoyed music, singing and a lot of laughter. A big thank you to Bodmin Band, the CFWI Choir and Rev. Geoff Davis. Click here to see a few more […]

This year, the members of Ladock WI decorated a Christmas tree for the festival at Ladock Church. They chose ‘Inspiring Women’ as the theme for their tree, and decorated it with ornaments depicting the women they find most inspiring. A reference book of the women featured was created for visitors to the Church. The women […]

Members from WIs from the west to the north of the county gathered to enjoy a festive Christmas County Lunch at The Hotel Bristol in Newquay on Monday. Over 100 members enjoyed the three-course Christmas lunch which gave an opportunity for WIs to socialise with each other and meet members of the Board of Trustees. […]

Doors from one end of the County to the other will be graced with stunning Christmas wreaths this year! After last Friday’s wreath-making workshop at Bodmin Nursery, WI members from St Dominick to Crowlas & Ludgvan went home with  beautiful green works of art to display.  

The NFWI Craft Committee have been asked to organise the making of three cards for the Royal Family for early 2018 – for the Queen’s 92nd birthday card, the Royal birth in April and Prince Harry and Meghan’s wedding in May. They are looking for WI members to make cards for these three very special […]

On Friday night, Mawnan was transformed when the village Christmas lights were turned on after much hard work from the newly formed Christmas Lights Committee. Crowds gathered in the Square to celebrate the beginning of the festive season which included children from the school and residents who had never been to the event before. Various […]

Two members of Constantine WI, Sylvia and Mary, have totally different Christmases. Sylvia, a farmers wife who’s up feeding all the animals very early before breakfast, has lunch sometime much later in the day. Mary has a family of 22, and may celebrate Christmas Day on New Year’s Eve or whenever all the family can […]

There was a real sense of Christmas coming at the annual Mawnan WI Christmas Gift Fair on Saturday, 25th November. The Memorial Hall was fully decorated with garlands and a Christmas tree, and stall holders had dressed their tables with lights and holly. There were many carefully crafted and original items for sale made by […]

Meet Polly Ethel, a cloth doll whose tail, top and hair are all made from fibres picked out of some of the huge quantity of polyethylene rope washed up on Perranuthnoe beach this Autumn. Created by Pippa Stilwell, CFWI Federation Climate Ambassador, to raise awareness of the plastic tide washing up on our beaches, Polly […]