The 2021 WI Diary will have a royal blue cover. Diaries cost £5.10 each. The order forms went out with the March issue of County News to your WI Secretaries, however, if you’ve missed seeing an order form, you can place your order directly via email on cfwisecretary@btconnect.com. If that isn’t possible, send your orders […]

Since the lockdown, it has been decided that rather than cancel the Press Competition this year we will work around the imposed conditions. Your entry, for either competition, may be sent electronically to cfwisecretary@btconnect.com or, if you are really unable to do this, a hard copy may be sent to the Federation Secretary’s address at: […]

To all Treasurers of WIs in Cornwall: When paying your One Bill account, please note that the following items should be deducted from the total amount due: £16 – NFWI pooling of fares £4.50 – CFWI preview calendar £11.50 – CFWI Spring Countdown visitor ticket For the £39 due for your National Annual Meeting link […]

Happy Easter to all our members across Cornwall from the Board of Trustees and the Chy Noweth staff. We hope you’re all staying home and staying safe!

Members of Constantine have been writing to men and women in a couple of local care homes. They send a few letters and cards a week each. Most of the members are, for one reason or another, having to stay at home. Liz Pearce says, “My postman takes my letters for me, so I don’t […]

A message from Cornwall Council Carbon Neutral Cornwall Cornwall’s wonderful community spirit has once again, predictably, excelled and it is with that marvellous spirit that we will be able to endure and thrive during these unprecedented times of the Coronavirus pandemic and climate change. We hope you are well and keeping healthy. If you or […]

Once again, CFWI Climate Ambassadors teamed up with our Climate Coalition partners for a Valentine’s Day (almost) Show the Love event in February, this time kindly hosted by The Godolphin in Marazion. About 100 WI members, RSPB staff and volunteers, local environmental organisations and members of the public, as well as our local MP Derek […]

We were contacted by Cornwall Cloth Masks, a local initiative whose aim it is to sew cloth masks that will be used by nurses and community carers visiting vulnerable people in their homes. The group is working on the basis of an approved pattern that can easily be sewn by people with some degree of […]

Celia from Wilcove WI is part of the team responsible for running their four-corner craft days. She would like to share her instructions for making beautiful homemade painted gift tags. She says, “I thought it would be a good way to keep positive, enjoy and experiment with watercolours” using equipment you may already have in […]

Mawnan WI has been keeping in touch with its members and looking at ways to keep members’ spirits up. An Easter craft workshop had been scheduled prior to Covid-19 and, with everyone isolating at home, the WI decided that they would just do it from their homes! The workshop leader forwarded some ideas and the […]