Trevone WI enjoyed their third Knot & Natter session this week as part of The Great Big Green Week initiative. The local Beach Guardian supplied piles of washed up fishing ropes and gear retrieved from nearby beaches and, after three hours, the members transformed the tangled heaps into sorted bundles of usable ropes for recycling. […]

Wishing to do their part during The Great Big Green Week, Pensilva WI prepared themselves with gloves and pickers to pick up litter around the village. It is important for everybody to live in a clean and tidy environment and the women were happy to be able to do their own small part in helping […]

Tregony WI describes itself as a “growing” group and is now getting more active on social media to try to recruit more members. At the members’ last meeting, they had a ukulele lesson and at the meeting previous to that they held a cream tea and vintage tractor afternoon at a member’s farm. In October, […]

Halsetown WI celebrated their 70th Birthday at their September meeting, The photograph shows Halsetown President Paula Cocking and founder member Irene Sheen with a celebration cake  made by Halsetown Secretary Jenny Bryant. Photograph courtesy of Emileen Williams

Over the past year, Associated Countrywomen of the World (ACWW) has been badly affected by Covid-19 as far as fundraising is concerned. The Staffordshire Federation of WIs, with Tish Collins, ACWW CEO acting as quiz master, is hosting a quiz to help raise funds for this wonderful organisation. Tuesday 26 October – 7pm ACWW is […]

Torpoint WI had its first cake stall for two years! Members had not forgotten how to bake and all the goodies sold out quickly. Members report that it was good to get back to normality!  

Constantine WI is very proud of three of their members who participated in a swimathon to raise funds for Marie Curie. Pictured are Janet Wallace, Pauline Pickard and Sue Tatham. The bathing beauties completed 1.5km in just over an hour, and raised £500. As Janet Wallace said, “Not bad for us pensioners!”

Omega is a charity supporting older people, and runs a valuable Chatterbox project, a telephone befriending service. There are currently have more clients on Omega’s waiting list than they have volunteer befrienders. This is perfectly in line with the WI’s ‘Alleviating Loneliness’ campaign and would be a great WI or individual project. If you have […]

CFWI is pleased to announce competition classes open to all WI members at the Cornish Winter Fair to be held at the Royal Cornwall Showgrounds on Saturday 20 November 2021. The Fair celebrates all that’s great about Cornish farming and food, so why not be a part of it? With a theme of ‘Christmas Fireside’ […]

Former CFWI Chairman and current Assistant Media Officer Sheila Goldsworthy writes a wonderful monthly WI column for The Cornishman. Here is Sheila’s September column: The WI is poised ready and prepared in the starting blocks to start running again with events and meetings! CFWI opened its doors recently for The Chy Noweth show which was […]