Tell us about your life during the Covid pandemic! We are compiling an illustrated record of 2020,to document the lives of Cornwall WI members in the momentous year we have just passed through. This is history in the making and you were there! So tell us about it! If you’re stuck for ideas, here are […]

Join the Cornwall Air Ambulance in June and hold a Heli Cream Tea! This is the perfect opportunity to catch up over a cuppa, knowing that the money you raise will go towards saving lives in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. You can download your Heli Cream Tea fundraising pack here or send an […]

Six members of Illogan WI went to Tehidy Woods for a walk to see the bluebells. When they stopped for a photo shoot, a passer-by offered to take a picture of them. Her dog decided to join the picture and posed with the group. It wasn’t until that evening, when the photo was examined, that […]

For those of you who don’t know, our beloved Federation Secretary Barb Peters will be leaving us soon. Barb’s last day of work at Chy Noweth will be 27 May. Barb will be hugely missed! If you’d like to drop her a farewell message before she leaves, please send her an email at cfwisecretary@btconnect.com, or […]

In contrast with the last book we reviewed, Chris Packham’s is an angry and unsettling book. Part memoir, part scientific study, and part polemic, this book excoriates the dysfunctional way in which the natural world is managed in the UK, in particular in respect of land use and land ownership, wildlife crime, unsustainable practices such […]

For the last few years, Mawnan WI has hosted a community event for Get Creative Week. In the 2020 Lockdown the theme was creating bunting. The decorated houses and gardens cheered people up so the members decided that for this year they would also choose a theme which would bring a smile to people’s faces. […]

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide – from A Shropshire Lad by A E Housman, 1896 Orchards are not only beautiful, they are crucial to the preservation of large wildlife populations. Fringing the western shadow of the Malvern […]

Sheila Goldsworthy writes a wonderful monthly WI column for The Cornishman. Here is Sheila’s April column: Although restrictions are easing, WI members are still not meeting as normal. However, in good WI tradition, the WI does not encourage members to be idle. There are several schemes on hand encouraging members to use “those little grey […]

This year there were 66,312 individual resolution selections cast by WI members and the most popular resolution from the short list,  receiving 30,240 selections, was A call to increase awareness of the subtle signs of ovarian cancer.  The wording of the resolution is as follows: A call to increase awareness of the subtle signs of […]

Does your WI have an idea for a local resolution? Is there something one of your members would like to see change in Cornwall? Is there a local issue your WI has already been discussing and/or advocating for? The Local Resolution process starts in June for the following year’s (2022) Spring Countdown.  The Local Resolution […]