Great news! There’s a fantastic range of new events running over the coming months at Denman … Anglo-Indian Cookery Day with Jenny Mallin Friday 31 March 2017 WI Member Price: £45 Non-Member Price: £50 Re-ignite your tastebuds and bring a new repertoire to your cooking skills with this fabulous Anglo-Indian Cookery Day. Chef and cookbook author […]
‘Fine words butter no parsnips’
We plan to add an Archives section to this website later this year, and include old documents, photographs, etc. for you to enjoy. But in the meantime, we thought we might whet your appetites with an old cookery book published by the Cornwall Federation of Women’s Institutes in 1929. The book has come to us […]
Happy Pancake Day!
If you’re making pancakes today, why not try something a little different? There’s a delicious-sounding recipe on the NFWI website for Mushy Banana and Sour Cream Pancakes. The recipe was part of the Love Food Hate Waste campaign and is a great way of using up those over-ripe bananas. If you fancy something a bit […]
Resolutions results
Between November and February, every WI member had the chance to have their say about the resolution they wished to go forward to the Annual Meeting in Liverpool on 7th June. The results of the 2017 resolution shortlist selection process are: As the two most popular resolutions were only just over 2000 selections apart, the […]
Press Competitions notice
An update for all WI Secretaries: In your most recent mailing from CFWI, you’ll have received application forms our Press Competitions. An error was made, and both forms mistakenly read ‘Boslowick Cup’. One form should read ‘Whitecross Cup’. If you are entering your Press Officer in the Whitecross Cup competition for more experienced Press Officers […]
Our WI, Our Future Questionnaire
You still have nearly a week to participate in the ‘Our WI, Our Future’ questionnaire! The deadline is 28 February. The NFWI wants to know about your experience of WI membership, so this is your chance to tell them what you like, or dislike. As we embark upon the WI’s next century this is your […]
Sensory band craft challenge
Have you ever had a go at knitting a sensory band? Sometimes called ‘twiddle-muffs’, these are knitted hand muffs, which are decorated inside and out with zips, buttons, beads or ribbons, and which have been proven to reduce anxiety in patients with dementia or delirium. By ‘twiddling’ and ‘fiddling’ with the bands, patients get visual, tactile […]
Tea/Steward Volunteers at Royal Cornwall Show
Did you know that Royal Cornwall Show admission will be £19 this year? That’s even more incentive to join the WI team as a volunteer in our marquee at the Show this June! If you sign up to work a minimum of two 1 ½-hour shifts in the tea area, or two 2-hour shifts as […]
Would you like to enter the Huxley Cup competition?
The Huxley Cup Competition is an annual Flower Arranging Competition run by NFWI and held this year in early August at the Bakewell Show in Derbyshire. We know there are a lot of very talented and very keen members in Cornwall, so we’d love to be able to send a competitor! This year’s competition will be […]
Resolutions Short List Voting
Did you vote for one of the short-listed resolutions in the November/December issue of WI Life? If you did, thank you! Below is a table showing the results of all the votes cast by WI members in the Cornwall Federation: As you can see, we cast the most votes for the ‘Plastic Soup’ resolution, followed […]