The CFWI Fashion Show at Carnon Downs Garden Centre on Thursday evening was a great success! Thank you to all who turned out and also to our models who bravely strutted their stuff on the runway, showing off fashions from Edinburgh Woollen Mills, Bonmarche and Cotton Traders. Also, thanks to members of our Membership Support […]

Are you worried about changes to the seasons, gardening failures, flooding? What is happening in Cornwall, this most beautiful of counties, to combat climate change?  What can we do as individuals and as WI members to put pressure on the government to act, and to reduce our own carbon footprint?  We have planned a morning […]

In 2006, former NFWI Chairman Helen Carey published Bows of Burning Gold, a wonderful book about the history of the WI. She is now issuing a Centenary Edition of Bows of Burning Gold, which brings our history up to date, including the years from 2006 until 2015. The book is a social history of the […]

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 […]