Are you an unpaid family carer of someone with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia? Has the person you care for with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia spent time as a patient in hospital over the last five or so years? If you answered ‘yes’ to the above two questions, then NFWI needs your help. As part of […]

Have you noticed the Easyfundraising logo at the bottom of our web page and wondered what it’s all about? Easyfundraising is a way for you to help raise money for the Cornwall Federation of WIs by doing nothing more than shopping online! Just click on the logo or click here and you’ll be taken to […]

For those of you interested in learning more about British hedges, you may like to tune in to Radio Four’s Book of the Week, Hedge Britannia by Hugh Barker. The first of five episodes has already aired, but is available to ‘listen again’ for 19 days. The BBC says: Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed […]

There have been some very good blog posts this week from NFWI spotlighting this year’s two resolutions – Alleviating Loneliness and Plastic Soup.  Click here to read about Alleviating Loneliness, and click here to read about Plastic Soup. The NFWI blog, Behind the Door at 104, is well worth a read. Why not add it […]

Do you know what MCS is? It’s our Membership Communication System – in simple words, it’s the big national database of all WI members. It’s the way our national organisation knows how many members we have and, more importantly to us, it’s the way we get our copies of WI Life. April has been nominated as […]

Following the Show the Love campaign for Valentine’s Day 2017, the NFWI campaigns team picked the best of the many photographs submitted by WIs across England and Wales to appear in WI Life. Cornwall was the only Federation to have two photographs picked – check them out on page 31 and 32 of the April […]

Have you ever wondered who puts together the furnishings for the Spring and Autumn meetings at the Hall for Cornwall, or the Royal Cornwall and Stithians Shows? It is our Exhibitions Sub-committee! I invite you to come and join us. We meet three times a year at Chy Noweth to discuss the events. If you’d […]

In collaboration with the National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies, the NFWI are promoting the Lonely Bouquet campaign on National Flower Arranging Day, Friday 5 May 2017. The idea of the Lonely Bouquet is to spread a little joy by making a small bouquet, or even just a single bloom, and leaving it somewhere for […]

We know some of you are making the journey from Cornwall to the WI Fair later this month, so we thought you’d like to see the final details! Click here to access the full list of speakers and craft activities you’ll find at Alexandra Palace. Have fun!  

Do you want to make change happen and empower women to get heard in the UK Parliament? A Parliament is only as strong as the people involved and women’s voices are needed. Applications are open for Train the Trainer: Women in Parliament, a free one-day course training you to deliver four inspiring workshops equipping women […]