Category: WI

August is the one month of the year that the Withiel W.I. does not have a meeting. But it has been a long tradition that all the members meet at the Bodmin Garden Centre for one of their delicious cream...

The speaker for the July W.I. meeting, was our Secretary Erica Simpson. She spoke of her long walk (630 miles, but not all at one time!), along the South West Coast al Path. Some of it was hard going, especially...

Our June meeting had four men visitors! They came to listen to our two speakers talking about Prostate Cancer awareness. Wendy Symons (one of our own W.I. members), and Jem Marshall told us about their involvement with the Graham Fulford...

The Ladies at Withiel W.I. had a very interesting speaker for our May meeting. Sharron Lobb paid us a visit, to demonstrate some of the items she keeps in her shop in St Columb. She showed us how old furniture...

A great evening was enjoyed by all our members, when we held a games evening. We decided to hold a "Bingo" evening. Not many of us knew how to play it, but we managed to get there in the end,...

The Withiel Women's Institute held their A.G.M. on Friday 4th March 2022 Voting for the new Committee took place The results were as follows: PRESIDENT Rosalind Coy SECRETARY Erica Simpson TREASURER Jo Brackenbury Joyce Rundle

For our February meeting we welcomed Dr Caroline Birkby from The Cornwall Air Ambulance . Caroline told us that the service was founded in 1987, and is based at Newquay Airport. it was introduced to allow fast response time to...

At our first W.I. Meeting of 2022, we were lucky to have a talk given to us by Joanna Shapter & her husband Colin. They told us all about their epic cycle ride from Land's End to Joh O'Groats. They...

5 Ladies from Withiel W.I. went to a Tunis cake tutorial at the W.I. headquarters in Truro, on Tuesday 23rd November. We were shown how to make ganache and how to make and mould marzipan fruits that were then coloured....

The ladies of Withiel Women's Institute held a quiz night at their last meeting in Withiel Village Hall on Friday 5th November 2021. Thanks to Jenny Pentland for setting & calling all the questions. We were in teams of three...