Mylor and Flushing Mermaids have been very busy – making cider! The first meeting of the newly formed Cider Club took place recently at the Cutting Patch in Mylor. There was lots of washing, chopping and mashing and the new “scratter machine” made quick work of grinding the apples into a pulp before the pressing […]

Come and join the Hall for Cornwall team for a coffee morning to discuss their heritage project! The event will be held at Chy Noweth on Monday 3rd February 2020, from 9-11:30am. Why not get a group of members together and carshare? Make sure you RSVP to Lucy at the Hall for Cornwall (see details […]

CFWI held a wonderful fashion show at Carnon Downs Garden Centre last Wednesday. We had a full house, with over 100 WI members in attendance! The models gamely strutted their stuff wearing fashions from Cotton Traders and The Edinburgh Woollen Mill. The audience saw everything from casual wear to more dressy outfits to eveningwear, and […]

Pictured here are the women of Morwenstow WI modelling the stunning scarves they decorated at a recent silk scarf painting workshop run by Karen and Michael Watkins.

Trevone WI celebrated its 90th birthday with a party earlier this month for members past and present, along with special guests CFWI Chairman Margaret Johnson and WI Adviser Kathy Reed. A stunning cake was made for the occasion, cut by two of Trevone’s oldest members present, assisted by Margaret. Members supplied a wonderful buffet lunch, […]

Take 21 WI stewards. Take Truro, a Cathedral City, and take a Cathedral. Take 100 primary school children with climate banners and placards marching through the city with their teachers and parents, stewarded by WI members. The children process into the Cathedral, past a congregation which fills the nave, to the sound of the Cornwall […]

It was hard to imagine sailing on the Helford River in the summer sunshine when Mawnan WI met for their November meeting to hear about the work of a Mawnan based charity, the Helford River Children’s Sailing Trust. Charles Richardson, the Chair of the Trust, who lives in the village, had some lovely photographs of […]

Crowlas & Ludgvan WI will be hosting a five-corner craft day at St Piran’s Hall, South Road, Goldsithney, on Saturday 7th March 2020 from 9:30am to 3:30pm. Participants will be able to choose two crafts from the following: Painting with oils – imagine yourself at the seaside painting your own individual scene Chicken scratch – […]

Last year, we told you about members of Constantine WI volunteering to help restore the footpaths in the Bosahan Community Woods in Constantine. Well, they’ve been back at work, this time contributing to the second phase of the footpath restoration, logging up over 400 volunteer hours and restoring 500 metres of paths. The women worked […]

On Wednesday 11th December, Trevena Tintagel WI will be holding a Christmas carol service at Tintagel Methodist Church at 10:30am. This will not be the standard Nine Lessons and Carols, but a lighter way of looking at Christmas, with readings, sketches and carols. It is entitled ‘The Trappings of Christmas’, looking at what people think […]