County News • July/August 2017 • Federation of WIs 1 A Message from Your Chairman ’m so sorry to I get some strange have to begin requests and do all Imy column sorts for the WI, but with sad news. this one was very FEDERATION OFFICE Chy Noweth an Conteth I expect most of memorable and great Business Park, Threemilestone you have heard fun. Truro TR4 9NH – T: 01872 272843 that dear Nan Email: Collier passed By the time you read General Enquiries: away on the this, we will have been [email protected] 25th April. Nan to the Royal Cornwall Federation Secretary: was a wonderful Show and I would just [email protected] Accounts: cfwiaccounts@ Chairman of the like to say a big thank btconnect.com Federation and a you to the members Reception: cfwireception@ WI Adviser and, who helped during btconnect.com despite being the three days. We Website: http://cornwallwi.org.uk diagnosed with couldn’t do it without Facebook: www.facebook.com/ the dreaded you. I hope you liked Cornwallfederationof “C”, carried the change of layout womensinstututes OFFICE OPENING HOURS out her duties in the marquee and 9am - 4:30pm with absolute appreciated all the hard Monday - Thursday dedication whilst work and time given she was able. She voluntarily by the Board FEDERATION CHAIRMAN was my mentor on of Trustees and Sub- Barbara Corbett the Membership Committees. Special Tel: 01736 791966 Sub-Committee thanks are extended to Email: [email protected] when I moved to Floral Art & Gardening FEDERATION TREASURER Cornwall and she for their organisation Jane Mills was extremely of the competitions Tel: 01736 752680 kind to me and always had time we met up at the Registrar’s and demonstrators, along Email: [email protected] to chat. Such a smart lady too; Office in St John’s Hall, with Home Economics & Craft truly an extraordinary woman. (now looking very and, of course, we must not EDITOR Although we had not seen smart since being re-vamped), forget the fantastic Exhibitions Helen Kestle Tel: 01736 753104 much of her of late due to her and did the deed. Sandra and Sub-Committee who were Email: [email protected] advancing illness, I know she John are a lovely couple. They in attendance throughout will be missed by the members have been together for 12 years the whole week of the Show. THANKS TO TREVISCOE who knew her so well. God and decided it was time to get THANK YOU ALL. & TRETHOSA WI FOR Bless you Nan, may you Rest in married, but did not want to PACKING JULY/AUGUST Peace. involve their extended family. We all need a break now to COUNTY NEWS We felt as if we had known recover and re-charge ready to NATIONAL FEDERATION On a happier note, I (and them for years! After the start again in September. OF WOMEN’S INSTITUTES Geoff) had the great privilege ceremony, we took them over to 104 New Kings Road, to witness a wedding recently! Penlee House Gardens for some HAVE A GREAT SUMMER. London, SW6 4LY We were approached by a celebratory refreshments and Tel: 0207 371 9300 lady (Sandra and her partner of course photographs. They Fax: 0207 736 3652 John) who lives in Norwich, were staying here in Cornwall Email: [email protected] enquiring if we could do this on holiday and so were off to Web: www.thewi.org.uk for them. Of course, being me, the beach for the afternoon – Barbara DENMAN I volunteered. On a very sunny couldn’t blame them, it was a Chairman Barbara Marcham, Abingdon Cornish Wednesday morning gorgeous day. Oxfordshire, OX13 6NW Tel: 01865 391991 Email: [email protected] Web: www.denman.org.uk Cover Photo Diary Updates

PUBLISHED JULY AND AUGUST DIARY DATES Cornwall Federation of 6th July - Climate Change: Reducing our Carbon Emissions Women’s Institutes 8th July - Photography Workshop: Sunset at Holywell Bay 13th July - Drama Workshop DEADLINE FOR INCLUSION 18th August - Visit to RHS Garden Rosemoor Flower Show IN COUNTY NEWS Items to be sent to the Editor by JULY AND AUGUST CLOSING DATES 12th of the month, two months 6th July - Visit to RHS Garden Rosemoor Flower Show prior to publication. No late 31st July - Press Competition deadline entries can be accepted. Mermaids Mylor & Flushing WI members Denise Carty, 31st July - Knightor Winery Visit 2nd August - Poldark Day DESIGNED Maxine Crump and Pam Simon Pell Seabridge enjoy a CFWI 3rd August - Forde Abbey Visit 10th August - Lawn Green Bowls visit to Tregullas Farm on a 12th August - Beeswax Workshop ADVERTISING beautifully sunny day in May. Jo Marchant - Tel: 01536 526674 21st August - Spa Day at Bedruthan Steps Hotel 21st August - Bag-Making Workshop PRINTED 25th August - Harvest Buffet Lunch 31st August - Social Media Competition deadline

2 County News • July/August 2017 • Cornwall Federation of WIs NOTES FROM THE OFFICE 200+ CLUB she has created on the wall 240501 or by email at mandy. May winner of £47 – Sue of her flat has cast a spell. [email protected]. Hollingsworth, Trevone WI She must see this country for herself. On the morning NEW ENTRIES IN OUR AN AUDIENCE WITH Ellie leaves for Athens, a SPEAKERS’ DIRECTORY VICTORIA HISLOP notebook arrives. Its pages tell Please note these additions to the story of a man’s odyssey our CFWI Speakers’ Directory, through Greece. Moving, following our most recent surprising and sometimes Speakers’ Auditions Day. A dark, A’s tale unfolds with full copy of the Directory, the discovery not only of a with contact details and fee culture, but also of a desire to information, can be found live life to the full once more.” on our website at www. cornwallwi.org.uk. The Autumn Council Meeting will be held at the Hall BARKING MAD ABOUT • Geoff Davis – A retired vicar for Cornwall in Truro on HOLIDAYS FOR DOGS? who provides all-round Tuesday 10th October. We are hearing a lot about lively entertainment, sings, the problems in our society tells funny stories and jokes APPLICATIONS FOR of loneliness and the need for and recites poetry. Subjects CFWI EVENTS us all to keep fit – so when include Kent and places he CFWI events, organised by Mandy Turton of Barking has travelled including the both the Board of Trustees Mad came to talk to us, a Holy Land and Bangladesh. and the sub-committees, new idea arose about how are advertised in County to help with both issues. • Cornwall Blood Bikes – A As you now know, our guest News with application forms representative will speak about speaker at this year’s Autumn sent to all WI Secretaries. We all know that a dog the operation’s organisation Council Meeting will be is a wonderful pal, keeps and volunteers, and will acclaimed author Victoria As not all WIs receive their you active and wins you probably also bring along one Hislop. When she takes the copies of County News at the lots of friends (even if they of their impressive bikes! stage at the Hall for Cornwall same time, tickets for events do all know your dog’s at our meeting, Victoria would are not allocated on a first- name but not yours!). • Fisherman’s Mission – A like to entertain questions come-first-served basis. Each talk about the history from the audience. If you application slip has a closing Barking Mad offers holidays of the Mission, its aims have a question you’d like to date shown on it, and when for dogs, so that while you’re and objectives and how it ask her, please submit it in applications are received they on your holiday your dog gets delivers those practical aims writing to the CFWI office by are kept until that closing date. to go on one of its own, staying today around the 49 ports the end of September. You can with a host family rather than and coves of Cornwall. send your questions either Once the closing date is going into a kennel. Home by post or by email to cfwi@ reached, and provided there from home. The idea came • Surfers against Sewage btconnet.com. What a great are sufficient applications to about in 2002 when Barking – An introduction to the opportunity this will be! make the event viable, tickets Mad’s founder needed a kind work of the charity and are sent out. Should the event and friendly place for her dog its current campaigns. If your WI has a book group, be over-subscribed, a ballot is to stay when she went away. why not read one of her books held. WIs whose applications Now that’s an interesting REMINDER in advance of the meeting? are not successful are placed idea for doggy lovers! A reminder to all that the Her most recent novel is on the disappointed list, and CFWI office at Chy Noweth Cartes Postales from Greece, their cheques are returned. There’s more to it – you can is closed on Fridays and the published in 2016. The back become part of the Barking cark park gates are locked. cover of the book says, “Week If you miss the closing date Mad family and be a host after week, the postcards for an event, it is always worth for a doggy visitor on its CORRECTIONS arrive, addressed to a name contacting the office to enquire holiday. You just need to The WI member featured on Ellie does not know, with no if there are any spare places. love dogs, be fit enough to the cover of the May issue return address, each signed look after one, have a secure of County News is Vicki with an initial: A. With their The Board of Trustees garden and plenty of time Knights of Launceston WI. bright skies, blue seas and frequently review the ticket to spend with your visitor. Mevagissey WI celebrated their alluring images of Greece, application process, and the 86th birthday, not their 68th as these cartes postales brighten ways in which costs can be If you would like to find reported in the May issue. Some her life. After six months, kept to a minimum, whilst still out more, visit www. 86-year-old ladies might not be to her disappointment, they ensuring that all members barkingmad.uk.com or offended by being called 68, but stop coming. But the montage receive details of all events. contact Mandy on 01209 Mevagissey WI is 86 and proud!

County News • July/August 2017 • Cornwall Federation of WIs 3 FEDERATION MATTERS HARVEST BUFFET • Morning Session The WI deemed to have made LUNCH 10:00am-2:00pm the most effective, creative Friday 6th October • Afternoon Session and innovative use of social CHY NOWETH AN 2:00pm-6:00pm media or technology will be CONTETH Each session will include full announced at our Autumn use of the spa, a 30-minute Council Meeting in October. treatment and a delicious Closing Date: tapas lunch. The morning Thursday 31st August session will finish with the Contact: Helen Kestle lunch, and the afternoon 01736 753104 session will begin with the Email: [email protected] lunch. You’ll be free to use the OBITUARY – NAN swimming pool, cedar sauna, CHRISTMAS DATES FOR COLLIER As some of you will eucalyptus steam room, YOUR DIARY have already heard, Nan Collier 12:00pm for 12.30 pm lavender caldarium and sea We know it’s still the middle sadly died on Tuesday 25th You are invited to a Harvest view hydrapool. of summer but, in true WI April. Nan was a member of the Buffet Lunch at Chy Noweth! fashion, we’re already making CFWI Board, serving as Vice- There will be a main course plans for some exciting Chairman and then Federation of cold meats, cheeses, jacket Christmas events. Make sure Chairman from 2005 to 2008. potatoes and assorted salads you jot these dates down in She was also a WI Adviser from followed by traditional autumn your diary. 2009 to 2015 when her health desserts. Everyone is invited forced her to resign, and she to bring along an item for the On Wednesday 6th December, served on the NFWI Training harvest auction. we’ll be holding a fabulous committee for three years. Cost: £12.00 Christmas Concert at Eden. Nan was an active member of Closing Date: Cost: £55.00 The concert will be held in the Truro WI where she served as Friday 25th August Closing date: Mediterranean Biome at 7pm, Secretary. Nan put up a hard Contact: Monday 21st August and will be a ticketed event. fight against her cancer. I know Jane Mills 01736 752680 Contact: CFWI 01872 272843 there are many members who, Email: Email: [email protected] We have two lovely Christmas like me, will have been proud [email protected] County Lunches planned to have known Nan as both a SOCIAL MEDIA this year – on Monday 4th friend and fellow WI member. FORDE ABBEY VISIT COMPETITION December at Hotel Bristol in The WI was well-represented at Sunday 17th September We’d like to announce a new , and on Friday 8th her funeral. Join us for a visit to Toby social media competition December at Whitsand Bay - Liz Anderson Buckland’s Garden Festival this year. Tell us your stories Hotel in . at beautiful Forde Abbey in about how your WI has A VISIT TO KNIGHTOR Somerset. used technology to boost More details about these WINERY, membership, to inform Christmas events will follow Monday 4th September members, to increase publicity in upcoming issues of 11.45am for 12.00pm for an event or simply to raise County News. Come along for a guided tour the profile of your WI. To through the display vines. The enter the competition, please winemaker will discuss the email the office with a link varieties grown in this country to your website, Facebook as well as other regional page, Twitter account – or varieties around the world, We’ll be celebrating the fruits whichever platform you’ve including tips on how to grow of the season with plants, used to help your WI – along your own. This will be followed crafts and gifts to buy, as with a description of how using by a look into the winery for well as demonstrations in the technology has helped you. a brief introduction into how Kitchen Garden and talks by wine is made and finally a Toby Buckland and Christine tasting of three or four wines. Walkden. You can also enjoy A ploughman’s lunch will be family entertainment and West Welcome to served using local cheeses and Country food to taste and buy. meats. Cost: £28 (£29 for non-WI members) SAFFRON BUNS WI Cost: £16 (to include tour, Closing Date: tasting and lunch) Thursday 3rd August The newest members of the Closing Date: Contact: CFWI 01872 272843 Monday 31st July Email: [email protected] Cornwall WI family Contact: CFWI 01872 272843 Email: [email protected] SPA DAY AT BEDRUTHAN Wishing you all the best in the future! STEPS HOTEL Wednesday 4th and From Thursday 5th October Escape and take some time for Chairman Barbara Corbett and yourself with an indulgent spa day! There will be two sessions the Board of Trustees on offer to members over two days as follows:

4 County News • July/August 2017 • Cornwall Federation of WIs MEMBERSHIP MATTERS COMBINED ARMS MEMBERSHIP on them with the name of CFWI CALENDAR The subject for the 2019 (yes it RECRUITMENT TIP your WI, where and when Thank you to everyone who really will be 2019!) calendar We know that nearly all you meet and some contact submitted photographs is “Cornwall Celebrates”, so WIs will struggle with details. Then take the for the 2018 calendar, and hopefully you will already keeping their membership copies to leave at your local congratulations to all the have some stunning images up at some point. Here’s an surgery, dentist’s office or members who have had theirs of events such as Flora easy tip for you to use to hairdresser. You never know printed in the calendar. Day, Obby Oss or help recruit new members. who might pick up one of When taking photos for your Trevithick Day and will be Keep old copies of WI Life your magazines to read entry, it is important to use poised ready, camera in hand, and put a label or sticker while they’re waiting! the highest setting on your at all the happenings around camera; and when submitting our county before the closing them, the highest setting date of 31st October. on your computer. Some lovely photos didn’t come For further information out well when brought up on contact Val Strout on the screen for the printer to 01208 87239 or consider them for printing. [email protected]

ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS POLDARK DAY Thursday 14th September 10:30am

Join us for a day immersed in all things Poldark. You’ll go on a guided walk to Ross Poldark’s Wheal Leisure mine at Botallack Crowns Section a go at mineral panning, see a (which doubles as Grambler film showing the history of tin ACTIVITY AND LEISURE Tin Mine). Mine workers will mining in the area and see the tell you what it was like for Holman collection of artefacts the Poldark miners and you from a bygone age. can even try your hand at the bal maidens’ job and hear A light lunch will be available how they were some of the in the Geevor café with first financially independent spectacular views over the women in Cornwall. coast.

You’ll then explore Geevor Tin Cost: £10.00 Mine, the largest preserved Closing date: mining site in the UK. You’ll Wednesday 2nd August visit its interactive museum Contact: Helen Mills Jenkins and see the cogs, wheels, 01209 717560 or 07572614622 winders and original shafts in (mobile) some of the many buildings Email: on-site. You’ll be able to have [email protected] ACTIVITY AND LEISURE BARN DANCE LAWN GREEN BOWLS Saturday 21st October Thursday 21st September LADOCK VILLAGE HALL TRURO CITY BOWLS 6:30pm for 7pm CLUB 2:00pm Cataclews, a four-piece ceilidh band, will play traditional folk Have you ever wanted to WESTERN MORNING music at our Barn Dance and try lawn bowls? If so, come NEWS ROSEBOWL do the calling for us, as well along to our taster day at TROPHY QUIZ as teaching us the steps. Bring Truro City Bowls Club on Quiz organiser Margaret your dancing shoes and dance Kenwyn Road. If you’ve Johnson reports that this was to your heart’s content, with always wanted to have a go, another successful afternoon supper included in the price. now is your opportunity to and that there was a happy Friends and family are very enjoy an informal afternoon buzz throughout the hall. welcome. on the green. Cost: £6.00 There wasn’t very much Cost: £23.00 Closing date: between the teams when the Closing Date: Tea and biscuits will be Thursday 10th August scores were announced, but Thursday 7th September available. If the weather is Contact: Jane Dover Launceston #1 team emerged Contact: Sandra Buck wet, the event will take place 01872 223819 the triumphant winners! It 01872 510568 on the following day, same Email: was great to see a lot of teams Email: [email protected] time, same place. [email protected] there for their first time.

County News • July/August 2017 • Cornwall Federation of WIs 5 CUTTINGS FROM FLORAL ART AND GARDENING

FLOWER ARRANGING ON our Beginners’ Classes as well A SHOESTRING as for those who need a bit of a Thursday 19th October boost to their confidence. You CHY NOWETH AN will go home with something CONTETH to be proud of that didn’t cost a 10:00am for 10:30am fortune! Please bring a packed lunch. We are continuing our campaign to prove that producing Cost: £15.00 beautiful flower arrangements Closing Date: needn’t cost a fortune! Rose Friday 1st September BEESWAX WORKSHOP Joynes and Ruby Trethewey will Contact: Avril Woolcock Saturday 23rd September show you how at this upcoming 01736 850567 THE HOLLIES, ST workshop which will be suitable Email: COLUMB MAJOR for everyone who has attended [email protected] 10:30am – 3:30pm

Come and spend a day with AUTUMN HANGING Lynda Evans, our favourite BASKETS beekeeper, at her workshop in Friday 13th October the heart of NURSERY and learn how to work with beeswax – and take home a We’re back at our favourite candle to prove it! nursery for a workshop to make up a hanging basket which Lynda also makes lotions and will last you right through the polishes using the wax and autumn and winter months. honey produced by her bees You’ll use the plants of your – everything smells lovely. choice from Bodmin Nursery’s Come for coffee at 10:30am extensive range of inhouse and spend the day learning produced plants, and all the various techniques and materials will be provided. go home with at least some Included is a welcome coffee; a candles! lunch of homemade soup, roll and a piece of cake; and the Bring a packed lunch or pop out exclusive use of the new Garden at lunchtime to the excellent Room where we will be based. local butcher for one of his You will also receive a 10% famous pasties. It is always discount on all shopping for the worth ringing the office to see day, so indulge in a bit of retail if there is still space, even after therapy as well! the closing date. Cost: £38 Cost: £18 Closing Date: Closing Date: Friday 1st September Saturday 12th August Contact: Abigail Kirby Harris Contact: Felicity Penneycard 01208 850651 01637 880373 Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected]

6 County News • July/August 2017 • Cornwall Federation of WIs HOME ECONOMICS AND CRAFT

BAG-MAKING WORKSHOP Wednesday 4th October CHY NOWETH AN CONTETH 10:00am – 3:30pm Spend a day making a pretty fabric bag using foils, beads and a bit of glitz. You will have the option of making the handles from twisted cords or fabric. The bag is suitable for an evening bag or would make a lovely gift bag in which CHRISTMAS CRAFTS 6 to put a present for a special Cost: £15.00 CORNER WORKSHOPS • Fabric Christmas tree friend – if you can bear to give Closing Date: hangings (not available it away! Monday 21st August Thursday 16th November in Marshgate) Contact: Pat Mallett Community • Mini Christmas cakes We are planning to put on an 01566 782555 Centre (sugar craft garland, additional date if this event is Email: hellebores and foliage) oversubscribed. [email protected] Tuesday 21st November Marshgate Village Hall All materials (including the mini Christmas cakes) will Friday 29th November be provided by the tutors. Lanreath Village Hall Please choose two crafts plus 10:00am – 4:00pm a reserve in case some are oversubscribed. Once again, the Home Economics & Crafts sub- Tea, coffee and biscuits will committee have chosen some be served on arrival. A lunch new ideas for these ever- of homemade soup and a roll, popular Christmas craft days plus cake and drink will be On offer this year are: available at a cost of £5. There • Christmas decorations is no need to book this in using fabric Decopatch advance. • Small hanging felt Christmas puddings Cost: £15 • Knitted ribbon Closing Date: TRADITIONAL enjoyed the traditional Christmas trees Saturday 30th September EMBROIDERY embroidery workshop at • Small hanging Contact: Dot Rogers WORKSHOP Taphouse. They send a big Christmas elves 01326231218 Jean Hoare of Pensilva WI thank you to the ladies who • Small ribbon wreaths (not Email: dotmrogers@ writes to say how much she gave up their time to put on available in Marazion) btconnect.com and her fellow WI members the workshop.

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County News • July/August 2017 • Cornwall Federation of WIs 7 WI NEWS WI AT the elderly, carers and those depicting “Musical Memories” SUPPORT FOR ROYAL ALEXANDRA PALACE suffering from Parkinson’s will be on display in the CORNWALL HOSPITAL disease. church, including a floral PATIENTS carpet entitled “The Circle COME ALONG TO ST of Life” designed by a WI BURYAN PRESERVATION member. The Land Art Trail RALLY around the village will feature displays in a variety of media – floral, textiles, natural Earlier this year, six material, yarn bombing and members of Bude WI took recycled items used in creative the opportunity to travel to ways. Refreshments will be London to visit the WI Fair available all day in the Village Mevagissey WI are working at Alexandra Palace. What a Hall, and there will be stalls on raising awareness for the successful outing they had! and music each day of the needs of dementia patients On their first evening, they Festival. in hospital. Some of the went to see the musical ‘Girls’. members met the Admiral It was with much surprise and Every year St Buryan EVERY PENNY COUNTS Nurse at Royal Cornwall great delight that, at the end WI provides homemade Hospital who suggested of the performance, they were refreshments and cream teas they make twiddle muffs able to meet several members in the WI marquee at the St and twiddle aprons. Any of the cast, and were delighted Buryan Preservation Rally patient who benefits from to discover that actress which this year is on Saturday “twiddling time” takes his Michelle Doltrice lives in and Sunday 29th and 30th or her apron/muff home, North Cornwall! The next day July in the village. The ladies otherwise, for reasons of they were up with the larks are on duty from 9:30am to hygiene, the aprons and to travel to Alexandra Palace. 4:30pm each day, resplendent muffs are destroyed. They arrived before the doors in their “Buryan Blue” aprons opened and didn’t leave until with the WI name embroidered Carbis Bay WI has a ‘Denman Obviously, this means a closing time, and went home in white. There is much to see Appeal’ teapot which appears great many are required and, piled high with purchases! It at the Rally including vintage at every meeting. Members although the Mevagissey was a very special excursion farm machinery, horse-drawn generously donate any small ladies have received wool as indeed! carriages, Shire horses, vintage change they have. There are well as old and new fabric, and classic cars and motor also plans to start a new they could use more. They AN HONOUR FOR bikes, trade stands and much fundraiser ‘boost’ for the would also appreciate the MADRON WI MEMBER more. The Rally is a great teapot with a monthly book donation of any unwanted outing for all the family and and magazine sale. The teapot waist aprons. Members so popular that it was recently jacket was made by Carbis Bay would be willing to collect extended from one day to two. WI member Wendy Grove. any donations. If you have There will be a warm welcome anything to offer, please to all comers, especially in the LONELY BOUQUETS contact Mevagissey WI on WI marquee! 01726 843634 or 01726 843603, or by email at A FLOWERY SUMMER IN [email protected] ST NEOT or [email protected]. Why not enter St Neot Flower Show? Or pop in to see the displays? There are classes for flowers, fruit and vegetables, as well as floral art, cookery, Members at and St crafts, photography and Keverne WIs were inspired children’s art and crafts. There by WI Life to make Lonely is no charge to enter. An entry Bouquets in support of the form is available on the St Neot ‘Alleviating Loneliness’ Village website (www.stneot. resolution. Hayle’s bouquets Wendy Gauntlett of Madron org.uk). were distributed to neighbours WI was awarded the British and other Members of Cury WI have Empire Medal after being This year’s show will be held women in the also been busy at work for nominated in the New Year on Saturday 12th August with community Royal Cornwall Hospital’s Honours List this year. In doors opening to the public living alone, Neonatal Unit, and have April, Wendy was presented from 2pm. Teas and a raffle recovering been crocheting octopi to her medal by the Lord- will be available. from illness help premature babies. The Lieutenant of Cornwall or recently logic behind it is that the Colonel Edward Bolitho Later in the month, St Neot bereaved. tentacles remind the babies OBE at a ceremony held at and District WI members will Jackie Allen of of the umbilical cord and St John’s Hall in Penzance. be taking part in the Village St Keverne WI therefore make them feel Wendy has been honoured Flower and Art Festival from made bouquets safe in the incubator, as for her work dedicated to the 25th to 28th August. Over and left them around the though they are in their helping others, in particular 20 large flower arrangements village for anyone to take. mother’s womb.

8 County News • July/August 2017 • Cornwall Federation of WIs hosted the event: Su Hillman, bonnets, a shower cap and Dot Hill, Eileen Buckner and even a fez! In total, donations Fiona Riggall. raised over £120.

A BIRTHDAY TEA FOR Mawnan WI has also started CARBIS BAY WI the hospice movement and to an Art Appreciation Group, everyone who braved the rain meeting at Falmouth Art WILCOVE WI ARE A to come along for such a good Gallery where Curator ‘SEWCIABLE GROUP cause. Henrietta Boex will walk and Earlier in the year the ladies talk members through the of Wilcove WI hosted a spring St Pinnock & District WI also current exhibition. At the craft social (“sewcial”) to held a very successful coffee time of the first visit, works which they invited members and cake afternoon in May, by Charles Napier Hemy and from nearby WIs. raising £380 for Cornwall Henry Scott Tuke were on Hospice. display. Members learned During the afternoon, the Carbis Bay WI recently about the community of ladies enjoyed home-made celebrated their 10th birthday MAWNAN WI DOINGS artists, their interests, how Easter “makes, bakes and with afternoon tea at The There may have been twitching they spent their summers in cakes” and were given the Garrack in St Ives. of net curtains and the raising Falmouth and also about their opportunity to take part in of eyebrows when members floating studios, models and some of the craft activities WI MEMBERS RAISE of Mawnan WI arrived for techniques. on offer: needle felted bee FUNDS FOR CORNWALL their monthly brooches, handmade paper HOSPICE meeting wearing concertina books, a pieced/ Marhamchurch WI hosted an assortment sewn fabric container and an afternoon tea in aid of of hats. This knitted decorative hearts. Cornwall Hospice. The well- was all in aid of attended event was enjoyed raising money Thanks are offered to by all and the many calories for Brain Tumour the craft tutors: Lorraine demolished helped to raise Research’s ‘Wear , Wendy Fiander, £368. Thanks to the local WIs a Hat Day’! There Celia Lister and the members who supported the afternoon, were wedding of Wilcove WI who kindly to local representatives of hats, Easter

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