A small group of members of Hayle WI have worked in pairs during 2020 to maintain their flower bed on Penpol Terrace in Hayle. Carefully following Covid-19 government guidelines, they have planted, weeded and tweaked in all weathers. Now the fruits of their labour are there for all to see, and have resulted in encouraging […]

In late September, SeaGirls WI members were lucky enough to be invited to join the Bodmin Gaolbirds WI for their October meeting (by Zoom of course!), which included a ‘painting with coffee’ session. Members were advised to gather the required materials beforehand: thick paper, paintbrushes, small cups, boiling water and instant coffee. Coffee ‘paint’ is […]

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During the first lockdown, Mermaid Val Jeans-Jakobsson set herself the target of putting together the children’s poems that she had written over the years for her grandchildren and for the educational publisher Scholastic, who used quite a bit of her work for their magazine publications during her long career as a primary school teacher. The […]

The office at Chy Noweth will be closed from 24 December until it reopens on 5 January 2021. Thank you!

This month, due to Lockdown II, we have been unable to have either Trustees or WI volunteers into the office to help pack up County News before sending it off to WI Secretaries across Cornwall. So our lovely staff member, Sue, has tackled the job herself. That’s 124 envelopes to be filled with newsletters, flyers […]

Back in August, we were contacted by Sue Bearcroft of Teddies 4 Tragedies asking for help to find WI members to help knit teddies. WIs in Falmouth, Pendeen, Newquay and Luxulan & Lanlivery all volunteered and produced some beautiful hand knitted items, and of course, bears and bags. Many of the knitters are carrying on […]

Please join us for a jolly Christmas-themed painting workshop with art educator Karen Bessell on Wednesday 2nd December at 11am. Karen, who runs UCreateArtAtHome, has been teaching art for years, but has taken her business online in 2020. She lives in Brisbane, but is Cornish and is a former member of Bodmin Gaolbirds WI. Karen’s […]

Thanks to the Eden Project Magazine for this!

Before we went back into a second lockdown, members of Bodmin Gaolbirds took a lovely walk through Lanhydrock Woods in the autumn sunshine.