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 […]

We hope you’ve seen the Walking Netball flyer that was sent to your WI Secretary with the April County News. Please note that the closing date of Thursday 3rd May on the application form is correct – please ignore the incorrect date in italics in the body of the flyer. Do get in touch if […]

We hope you’re holding the date free for our next Federation visit to Denman, which will take place in 2019, our Federation’s Centenary year from 20-23 May. The courses on offer will be:  Salads & Superfoods with Ashley Keen Superfoods are everywhere you look – in the news, on television and in magazines – however, […]

Did you know that in 2017 one in four children aged 11 failed to reach the government’s required reading standards? ​This can have lifelong consequences. Schoolreaders helps to address this problem by finding volunteers to read one-to-one with children in primary schools, at no cost to the school. It costs Schoolreaders an average of just […]

If you have a few minutes to spare, take a look at this. 

Are you a reader, a bookworm or a bibliophile? If so, then the Jersey Federation has the perfect short break for you. From 27th September to 1st October 2018, the Jersey Federation of WIs will be holding its third Festival of Words book festival. The programme is being put together at the moment but past […]

Happy St Piran’s Day to our members up and down Cornwall. St Piran is the patron saint of tin-miners, and the national saint of Cornwall. He was probably born in Ireland and raised on the island of Cape Clear off the coast County Cork, by his father Lughaidh and mother Liedania. He studied the scripture […]

Here are some scenes from around the County of our few days of snow.

Over 100,000 members took part in the 2018 selection process, the highest turnout ever. NFWI thank all members who participated. One resolution has now been selected to go forward to the final vote at the Annual Meeting in Cardiff on 6th June. The resolution is: MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS: Mental health matters as much as physical […]