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 […]

Now that spring has pretty well sprung, we are all thinking about various spring cleaning ideas. What about a litter pick? If everything goes to plan, by the end of March, we’ll be able to meet outdoors in groups of six. What better way to get members of your WI outdoors and together? If you […]

This week saw the launch of the first of a brilliant series of films by Cornwall Climate Care called Cornwall Climate Stories. The film, Under the Surface, looks at how – without most of us even having noticed – climate change is already affecting the marine environment in Cornwall. The film is presented by Claire […]

Here at CFWI, we are always ready to applaud WIs that are keeping things going through these difficult times. And today, Harrowbarrow & Metherell WI gets a standing ovation! Although unable to meet at present members enjoy regular emails from President Joan Tall and important updates from Secretary Kathy Thomas.  One of the focuses in […]

In light of COVID-19 and the impact this pandemic has had on members and WIs, NFWI has recently made some changes to the WI membership subscription. At the 2020 National Council, it was proposed that NFWI explore the possibility of WIs being given greater flexibility over their portion of the membership subscription, giving them the […]

This month, we held a competition to allow members to demonstrate their commitment to combat climate change and protect all they care about by creating a window display to ‘Show the Love’. We’re pleased to announce that the winner is Karrie Skaife of St Mary’s Isles of Scilly WI. Isn’t her display wonderful? Karrie is […]

Due to the current restrictions, we have had to postpone the Family History Days planned for February and March. However, it is hoped we can go ahead with them during the autumn or winter. Lockdown is an ideal opportunity to make a start on tracing the family tree. At this time of year the main […]