The first meeting of Harrowbarrow and Metherell WI since the pandemic started was held last week. Members held a socially distanced celebration outside at All Saints Church in Harrowbarrow.  The weather cooperated and members enjoyed refreshments including delicious individually boxed cupcakes.  There was also a plant swap. Here’s to many more sunny outdoor meetings!  

We are so pleased that some of you have signed up for our Online Art History talks, which begin in September. This programme of 12 weekly sessions will cover 12 paintings from the 15th-18th centuries, including works by Botticelli, Rembrandt, da Vinci and El Greco, among others. Each Monday, a brief video presentation about the […]

The Climate Coalition Great Big Green Week is 18 to 26 September 2021! Do you want to make your voice heard loud and clear in the run-up to the crucial climate conference, COP 26, to be held in Glasgow in November? As WI members we can do that, and we can amplify our voices through […]

Members of Crowlas & Ludgvan WI and Hayle WI were surprised to find each other at the same cafe on Friday!  The women of Crowlas & Ludgvan’s Camera Club had just paid a visit to Guy’s Butterfly House in St Hilary, and needed some sustenance! Hayle WI members had made a special outing for cream […]

You have to be in it to win it! There is only one week to go until the deadline for applying to enter this year’s Chy Noweth Show (which is replacing the cancelled Royal Cornwall Show). The schedule for the WI Competition, this year organised by the Environment & Public Affairs sub-committee, is as follows: […]

Doing the same things but doing them differently underlies the determination of Perranarworthal WI to keep moving forward. Social distancing and masks may have become the norm, but looking after the environment is still very important to this WI. It undoubtedly was a cold and often wet spring, yet the gardening group tidied up the […]

St Breward WI celebrated the 100th birthday of long-standing member Hilary Cragg.  Hilary joined St Breward WI in 1972 and has been an active member ever since. All the members present admired the card Hilary received from Her Majesty the Queen and enjoyed a special birthday cake. Pictured here are Hilary together with Pat Lismore, […]

In pre-Covid times, local WIs would come to Chy Noweth an Conteth to help pack up County News, ready to go out to all our WIs. At the moment, however that work is being done by members of the Board of Trustees. Here they are, hard at work, making sure each WI gets the right […]

Anne Fenwick and Julia Havard, members of CFWI’s Environment and Public Affairs Sub-committee, joined some 300 people on Hayle beach on Saturday to send a gentle message to the G7 world leaders in Carbis Bay about the ingenuity of Cornwall in dealing with the problem of marine litter. They were all wielding tubes, made from […]

This year, Stithians Show is going virtual! The Virtual Show will take place from 12 July to 16 July. There are five exciting classes for WI members to enter: Replicate the NFWI logo using recycled items. Create an A4 poster in any medium, designed to encourage existing members and recruit potential members to explore the […]