Homestart Kernow is an organisation that offer support to Parents with a child/ren from 0-5yrs through a range of avenues including; 1:1 family support within the family home, online or face to face groups depending on needs identified within the local area.   Volunteers are needed to help support families around Cornwall. They are keen […]

The Lady Denman Cup Competition is NFWI’s annual writing competition in which members submit an original piece of work based on a set theme. The theme for 2022 is The Power of Community, supported by The Big Jubilee Lunch, with the aim of celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee. Using no more than 500 words, WI members […]

This year’s NFWI Huxley Cup Competition is themed around Our Fabulous Flying Friends (think about birds, bees, butterflies, moths, and bats!). The Huxley Cup is NFWI’s annual design competition and allows members to enhance, develop or share their creative skills and knowledge in gardening, flowers, nature and wildlife. Over the course of the year, members […]

Just a friendly reminder that this year (and every year going forward), your WI subs will be due in April. Your Annual Meetings will still be held in either February or March, as in previous years. This year, subs are the same as they were last year – £44 per member. Your WI may have […]

Nearly 50 WI members attended our Déjeuner en France event yesterday. Chy Noweth was bedecked with French flags, as well as a lit-up Eiffel Tower. Those attending started with a choice of bouillabaisse or vegetarian French onion soup. That was followed by an array of French dishes, including coq au vin, boeuf bourguignon, quiche, and […]

“If you find a path with no obstacles it probably doesn’t lead anywhere” This maxim is very suitable to everyone who is trying to grapple with our current COVID situation in trying to get back to normal, following a very disruptive period particularly in WI circles. In the January edition of the County News our […]

In 2021 we set our members a project to record the day time and night time average temperatures high and low. Most of us knitted scarves or small blankets. One member Maureen Whybrow has completed these blankets from her climate scarves which are fantastic.

Members of Sticker WI enjoyed a New Year Lunch at the Hewas Inn in Sticker recently.   

Having all gone through another difficult year with this pandemic, Godolphin WI ended 2021 on a very positive and enjoyable Christmas evening at The Coach and Horses, where both the food and service was excellent.    January 2022 started with a visit to The Flicka Foundation on the 13th.  We all had a light lunch […]

We all like it, some more than others, but Winnie the Pooh loves it! What is it? It’s honey of course! Somebody who not only likes to eat honey but also produces it came along to Pensilva WI’s January meeting to talk about the honey bee. Dale Wood was full of interesting facts about the […]