Former CFWI Chairman and current Assistant Media Officer Sheila Goldsworthy writes a wonderful monthly WI column for The Cornishman. Here is Sheila’s May column: Maltesers are good for you. This is surely good news for those of us who have fallen in love with those “non-fattening centres”, the well-known advertising phrase from many years ago. […]

The WI was represented so well at today’s Jubilee Banner Parade in Truro! And what an occasion it was – a special chance to celebrate and honour the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen. We all met up at Waterfall Gardens on St George’s Street, along with all sorts of groups including Rainbows, Brownies, […]

There’s a little bit of magic in every box, they say …but  when the WI is involved, you can bet your dialling finger on it. Our iconic red telephone boxes are being decommissioned across the country as more and more people carry a mobile phone. The kiosk in Tresparrett was bought by St Juliot Parish […]

Is your WI doing something special to celebrate the Jubilee? Are you having a party, a picnic, a Big Lunch or any other kind of do? Please take pictures and send them AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to cfwi.publications@gmail.com. Thank you!

On 25 April, Boscastle WI welcomed members of the community to the Village Hall for a valuable session in life-saving techniques. A local group, including First Responders, taught the WI members how to recognise if someone has suffered a heart attack, what steps to take, and how to use a defibrillator and administer CPR. Boscastle […]

At a meeting earlier this spring, Porthleven WI members were fascinated by a display of pictures taken by local photographer Arthur Roberts on a sponsored photoshoot to Svalbard, on behalf of Children’s Hospice South West. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole and is one of the world’s northernmost inhabited […]

I thought it might be an idea to give you all a weekly (ish) rundown of what I get up to as CFWI Chair, so you know you’re getting value for money. I say ‘value for money’ with tongue planted firmly in cheek – of course, neither I nor any of the Federation Trustees receive […]

This month a group of Crowlas and Ludgvan WI members went for a walking tour of Truro with Bert Biscoe. They wandered around the centre of the city, learning about the history and characters of Cornwall’s capital. Bert is a poet, songwriter, local councillor, historian and a Bard of Gorsedh Kernow. He represented Truro for […]

For the first time in three years, the Grenville Group, a collection of North Cornwall WIs, met in the Ivor Potter Hall in Bude on Wednesday 11 May. The meeting was hosted by Bude WI who will be celebrating their 100th Anniversary in November this year. Bude WI President, Carol Sparham, welcomed members from Bude […]

The May meeting of Mermaids: Mylor and Flushing WI was a very cheesy affair. Guest speaker was former cheesemonger from Neal’s Yard Dairy, and Mylor resident, Doug White, and he brought along cheese samples to illustrate his talk entitled Three Iconic Female Cheesemakers, all about their roles in preserving British farmhouse cheeses. Doug explained how […]