A celebrity gardener officially opened a new garden room at the WI’s Oxfordshire residential college. The room was donated by home improvement company Everest. David Domoney, who presents Love Your Garden on ITV, cut the ribbon at Denman in Marcham, on a rainy Monday as part of the college’s 70th birthday celebrations this year. Speaking at […]

Has your WI been working on an entry for our upcoming Cornwall Village Book? If so, Editor Jane Dover has asked that you please submit all copy and images to her by the end of next week. Her absolute deadline is Friday 20th April. If you haven’t been working on an entry and have a […]

Over the past three years, thousands of people across the country have come together to Speak Up to their MPs about how climate change is affecting what they love and to discuss the decisions they can make to help protect them. Today you’re invited to be part of this incredible movement inspiring our government to […]

How far would you go for what you believe in? The Cause is a new play inspired by an imagined meeting between Emmeline Parkhurst and Millicent Fawcett, two great leaders of the women’s suffrage campaign. They believed in the same thing, but their methods differed greatly. The play’s tour begins on April 25th at Callywith […]

We’re all familiar with Thomas Hardy as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d’Urbervilles. But did you know that Hardy also spent time in Cornwall? It was the North Cornish coast, the Valency Valley, where Hardy, met his first wife, Emma, in […]

Heart Research UK is conducting a survey of WI members. If you’d like to participate, you can either do it online or print off a copy of the survey here. If you’re using the print version of the survey, please return it using freepost to: Freepost RLYL-AGUE-SSBZ, Heart Research UK, Suite 12D, Joseph’s Well, Hanover […]

eXXpedition is a crew of women embarked on ambitious sailing expeditions to raise awareness of ocean plastic and sample the water to see what damage is being done. You may all remember Imogen Napper, a PhD student at Plymouth University researching the effects of plastic pollution within the marine environment, who spoke to us so […]

A producer working on a television programme for Channel 5 is looking for help from WI members! The programme, ‘Celebrity 5 Go Caravanning’, will involve five celebrities on a caravan holiday across Cornwall in mid-May. The producer would like to feature the Cornish pasty in the programme and would like to sit down with some […]

An exciting new three-year creative project celebrating the history of Jubilee Pool, Penzance, will bring together Cornwall-based media production company awen productions CIC, artist Dr Jane Bailey and Jubilee Pool Penzance to deliver ‘Jubilee Pool: Then, Now, To Come’. With funding from Heritage Lottery, Arts Council England, the Tanner Trust and Falmouth University the project […]

Thank you to all who attended our Easter Buffet Lunch at Chy Noweth yesterday!  We hope everyone enjoyed themselves. There were Easter treats, flowers, chocolate, “bunnies” – and, of course, fantastic company and delicious food. Keep a look out in County News for the next buffet lunch, and tell your friends how much fun you […]