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Ladock WI was founded in 1954. It's our Platinum Anniversary in 2024. 70 years of inspiring women. Welcome to Ladock Women's Institute.

We are a friendly group of women, of all ages, from all backgrounds, interested in friendship, learning new things, discovering new interests and having loads of fun. If you want to know more about us or if you want to become a member, please contact us. We love to hear from you.

We meet every 3rd Wednesday of the month in Ladock Community Hall. We have a range of exciting and fantastic activities and events throughout the year for members and friends to attend, join and participate.
● Arts and Craft Group (arts and crafts, sewing, felting and others)
● Walking Group (nature walk, wildlife walk, garden walk and others)
● Zoom Cookery (baking cakes and bread, cooking soups and others)
● Night Out (cinema, theatre and others)
● Community Events (coffee morning, Ladock fest and others)
● Lunch, Dinner, Afternoon Tea and others (Christmas Dinner and others)
● Talk and Presentation (we invite brilliant and knowledgeable speakers to our meetings)

01/11/2026

November 🍁🧣🧦🧤💨 🌦️
What’s On?
* Tuesday 3rd November: Walking Group meet at Heligan Gardens to walk to Mevagissey. Optional bus back.
* Friday 6th November: Craft Group - perhaps making lots of beautiful things to sell at the Christmas Coffee Morning in December? Or tree decorations for the Christmas Tree Festival? 🤔
* Wednesday 18th November: Monthly Meeting with Kevin Viner at the Falmouth Arms for a demonstration and tasting of Christmas Canapés! 😋
Competition - a yummy Christmas dessert recipe.
* Date to be advised: Meet up for coffee and/or lunch at the Wagon Farm Shop in Menna ☕️

22/10/2026

General information: we meet on the third Wednesday evening of the month, at 7.30pm, in Ladock Community Hall.
See our website for information on how to contact us.

22/10/2026

***Excellent monthly meeting last night - Knicker Shocker Story!***
Aline Turner guided us through the history of fashion, particularly underwear. Very entertaining! Think crinoline, farthingales, cod pieces, liberty bodices…and did you know that we only started wearing knickers in the mid 19th century?

Lots of entries for the competition ‘Something Lacey’. Pictures of some of the entries coming up and congratulations to the winners!

16/10/2026

✨ Exciting News! ✨
CFWI has chosen our church in our village to hold their annual Christmas Carol Service!
The day before many groups and individuals in Ladock will be setting up their Christmas trees for the Christmas Tree Festival, now an established and much loved annual event.
The church will be looking beautiful! The theme is ‘Musicals’ - so look out for Phantom of the Opera, Wizard of Oz, Calendar Girls, Chess…….🎄🎄🎄

07/10/2026

***Sounds like the Walking Group had a great walk this morning! Liz writes:-
‘This morning 7 of us had a lovely circular walk to Charlestown from Carlyon Bay. We stopped at the Coastguard Station on the way and had coffee at the Pier House.’ ***
💚Love the photos 💚

01/10/2026

💜Thank you CFWI for putting lots of our photos on your 1 + 1 + 1 collage heading up your fortnightly newsletter. We were of course celebrating the 111th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Institute 💜

01/10/2026

October 🍁🍂🍁🍂
Thank you Tony Rea for making our Open Evening so special last month, and thank you to all the village folk and fellow WIs for supporting us…and to all our members for working so hard to make the evening the huge success it was!! It will be remembered for a long time 💜

*A new month and the Arts and Entertainment group is already out tonight to see Sense and Sensibility ❤️
*Walking Group - Wednesday 7th October, Carlyon Bay to Charlestown
*No Craft Group this month - back in November
*CFWI Annual Meeting at the Hall for Cornwall - Wednesday 14th October, NFWI CEO Melissa Green, Leslie Smith as Nell Gwynne and Rock Choir Cornwall will be on stage!
*Monthly Meeting - Wednesday 21st October ‘Knicker Shocker Story’; competition: Something Lacey
🍁Look forward to seeing you! 🍂

17/09/2026

💜💜💜 💜💜💜
What does the WI mean to you? Popular answers to this question last night were: FRIENDSHIP - LEARNING - FUN
Reflecting on feedback from last night and looking at these 1 + 1 + 1 photos, we absolutely had fun celebrating the 111th Anniversary of the WI together, making new friends and renewing old ones, learning as we went along (did you see the lemon and lavender cup cakes? Straight out of the last edition of WI Life).

Thank you to Tracey for organising everything, Sandra for suggesting and booking Tony Rea and everyone else for all their input, teamwork and friendship.

17/09/2026

💜💜💜 Tony Rea 💜💜💜
What an entertaining and charismatic speaker! Tony told us how he was quite creative as a young man but forgot about it as he spent 25 years in the corporate world before taking a gap year. To quote, ‘I came out quite late as a crafter’, wandering into a WI tent as it was raining and learnt to crochet! Tony told us about the Sewing Bee and his experiences, how the programme works and showed us many of the clothes he made on the programme. Brilliant! He described Esme (one of the judges) as ‘mad as a box of frogs’ and Patrick (the other judge) as ‘smelling as good as he looks!’ We were absolutely blown away. His favourite creation? A prom dress for his daughter. The day job? He’s been a postman in Bude these last seven years.

17/09/2026

💜💜💜 Getting Ready! 💜💜💜
Flowers ✔️
Cakes and Savoury Snacks ✔️
Bunting ✔️
Raffle ✔️
Photo Frame for 1 + 1 + 1 pictures ✔️
Wear purple ✔️
Everything else ✔️

Address

Ladock Community Hall, Ladock, Cornwall
Uk
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Website

http://www.ladockwomensinstitute.weebly.com/

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