We received the following notice about the sale of Denman this week from NFWI: ******************************** Denman Announcement: For the attention of all Federations and WIs Denman Announcement – 25th April 2022 In October 2021 we shared with all members (via their federations and MyWI) that the Denman Estate was to be sold. This followed an […]

Please note that the May 2022 County News is now available online. WI Secretaries will receive hard copies of this issue for all your members through the post in the normal way, but it will be delayed because of difficulties we are experiencing with our print house. We hope very much that we will be […]

It’s back! The Programme Competition is once again on the agenda for members. Your WI programme is still a very important feature of the WI. Does it depict what’s special about your WI? If it’s informative, welcoming and an ideal advert to give to potential new members, then the answer is yes! It will also […]

Our friends at the Buckingham Federation of WIs have sent us an invitation to some upcoming Zoom talks put on by their Science and Society Committee. The talks are open to members and non-members and cost £5 each (or £10 for all 4 talks). Please see the flyer pictured here for booking information.

Tregony WI welcomed West Cornwall Search and Rescue to their April meeting this week. The guest speakers brought a vehicle and trainee dog, and the WI members thought it was a brilliant meeting! Over 25 people came along!  

As we all know, this year marks the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. But there’s another event that took place on the same day in 1952 that you might not be aware of – His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales became Duke of Cornwall on the accession of HM The Queen in 1952. This second very […]

Trustee and former Federation Chairman Margaret Johnson is planning a fabulous Federation stall for the WI marquee at this year’s Royal Cornwall Show – but she needs your help! She is calling on all crafty WIs and WI members to help support the stall by providing items we can sell, preferably for no more than […]

Bodmin WI held a belated 75th Anniversary Lunch yesterday at the Westberry Hotel. With three new members joining in, the women enjoyed a delicious lunch on a beautifully sunny day. Congratulations, Bodmin!  

Former CFWI Chairman and current Assistant Media Officer Sheila Goldsworthy writes a wonderful monthly WI column for The Cornishman. Here is Sheila’s April column: Cornwall is certainly hitting the headlines this month, with the Climate Ambassadors gracing the front page of the April edition of WI Life magazine and several mentions inside of Cornish WI […]

You have all been so generous in offering to serve as volunteers and stewards for this year’s Royal Cornwall Show, but we find we are still short of people for Saturday 11 June. If you have any availability at all and would like to help out, we’d be very grateful! Volunteers monitor our competition displays […]