Given that this year’s Royal Cornwall Show is now scheduled for 9-11 September, CFWI has extended the deadline for WIs and members to enter our Show competitions. The deadline for entering the Royal Cornwall Show Cup Competition, our Floral Art competitions and the Barbara Reed Trophy competition is now 30 June 2021. In case you […]

CFWI’s Arts and Leisure sub-committee would like to compile an illustrated record of 2020, to document the lives of Cornwall WI members in the momentous year we have just passed through. This is history in the making and you were there! So tell us about it! This is not a competition; there will be no […]

Throughout the year of no physical meetings, members of St Mary’s Isles of Scilly WI have been keeping in touch with weekly emails from President Pam on behalf of the Committee. A buddy system was put in place early on ensuring that all members had a regular contact friend. However, there were no monthly speakers […]

As we all begin to slowly look forward to returning to some kind of normality, organisations are taking the opportunity to review their programme delivery, create a greater understanding of their audience and ensure that appropriate opportunities are accessible, to give everyone the confidence to improve their level of physically activity and to consider trying […]

Discover ‘image of the black’ in National Gallery paintings at an online talk, ahead of the UN’s Anti-Racism Day. Friday 19 March 2021 starting at 11am Michael Ohajuru discusses the black presence in The National Gallery‘s collection. Find out how the black presence moves from objects of economic capital to creators of cultural capital – […]

We all know about climate change and the consequences of increasing global temperatures. We also know that the effects of climate change are not spread equally around the globe. What we may not know is the impact this is having on the daily lives of many people now and which, indeed, threatens their very survival. […]

When Hayle WI President Margaret Stockton was sorting through the many photos stored on her PC recently, she realized that she had quite a few of her WI members, taken at various events, outings and meetings over the past few years. She decided, with her committee’s agreement, to create a little photo book of happy […]

Bodmin Gaolbirds WI would like to invite you to join them for a Zoom presentation with Charlotte Somers from The Hall for Cornwall on Wednesday 10th March at 7pm. Charlotte will be bringing us all up-to-date with the renovations and refurbishment of the theatre. It will be exciting to have an insight before we all […]

For our 2021 Bulb Scheme we are again using Walkers Bulbs Ltd (the mail order subsidiary of Taylors Bulbs) who have been supplying bulbs to WIs for many years. CFWI receives a commission on the value of the orders placed, so this is a very useful contribution towards the cost of running the Federation and […]

by Karrie Skaife, member of St Mary’s Isles of Scilly WI As a result of my Show the Love window display winning the CFWI competition recently, I was invited by Pippa Stilwell, Climate Ambassador, to attend a Zoom Climate Focus Event attended by Derek Thomas, MP, amongst others.  On a February afternoon, I logged into […]