Here are just some of the fantastic pictures we’ve been sent by WIs all over Cornwall, showing us the wonderful ways they celebrated the Platinum Jubilee.

The Royal Cornwall Show may not open officially until Thursday, but our Exhibitions team have already been hard at work! Here they are making sure our massive WI marquee is looking its absolute best, ready for members of the public later in the week.    

Please note that our CFWI office at Chy Noweth an Conteth will be closed on Thursday 9 June 2022 as it will be all hands on deck at the Royal Cornwall Show! We will re-open as normal on Monday 13 June. Please do pop in and see us in the WI Marquee on the Showgrounds!

Some of you who were not able to attend the Jubilee Banner Parade and Service in Truro yesterday have asked to see a copy of the service programme. You can see it here, but please excuse the crumpled paper! Because it is very difficult to hold both a programme and a banner, it was folded […]

Former CFWI Chairman and current Assistant Media Officer Sheila Goldsworthy writes a wonderful monthly WI column for The Cornishman. Here is Sheila’s May column: Maltesers are good for you. This is surely good news for those of us who have fallen in love with those “non-fattening centres”, the well-known advertising phrase from many years ago. […]

The WI was represented so well at today’s Jubilee Banner Parade in Truro! And what an occasion it was – a special chance to celebrate and honour the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen. We all met up at Waterfall Gardens on St George’s Street, along with all sorts of groups including Rainbows, Brownies, […]

There’s a little bit of magic in every box, they say …but  when the WI is involved, you can bet your dialling finger on it. Our iconic red telephone boxes are being decommissioned across the country as more and more people carry a mobile phone. The kiosk in Tresparrett was bought by St Juliot Parish […]

Is your WI doing something special to celebrate the Jubilee? Are you having a party, a picnic, a Big Lunch or any other kind of do? Please take pictures and send them AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to cfwi.publications@gmail.com. Thank you!

On 25 April, Boscastle WI welcomed members of the community to the Village Hall for a valuable session in life-saving techniques. A local group, including First Responders, taught the WI members how to recognise if someone has suffered a heart attack, what steps to take, and how to use a defibrillator and administer CPR. Boscastle […]

At a meeting earlier this spring, Porthleven WI members were fascinated by a display of pictures taken by local photographer Arthur Roberts on a sponsored photoshoot to Svalbard, on behalf of Children’s Hospice South West. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole and is one of the world’s northernmost inhabited […]