Newnham on Severn

The WI is the largest voluntary women’s organisation in the UK with approx 205,000 members and 6,500 WIs.

It exists to educate women to enable them to provide an effective role in the community, to expand their horizons and to develop and pass on important skills.

Newnham WI is 92 years old with its own premises, the WI Hut in Dean Road.  We have 25 members and meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the month in The Hut at 7.30 pm

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ALL ABOUT THE WI

The WI is for all women, offering them opportunities for friendship and for learning and working together to improve the quality of life in the community, to enable development of individual skills and talents and opportunities to join in a wide range of Wl activities.

Newnham WI which is 92 years old is part of the National Federation of Women’s In!>1itutes (NFWI), and also the Gloucestershire Federation of Women’s Institutes (GFWI). We have approximately 25 members, mostly from Newnham and the surrounding area. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday oftne month at 7.30 pm in the W.1. Hut, Dean Road, Newnham which is owned by the W.I. Newnham WI is linked with Arlingham WI and we get together at least one a year on one side or other of the Severn.

MEETINGS The main part of the evening is a talk or demonstration, preceded by some brief W.J. business. Members on a rota basis are hostesses for the evening once a year.

SUBSCRIPTION for 2010 is £29.50 of which Newnham keeps £12.85, GFWI receives £6.30 and NFWI receives £10.35. Visitors to our meetings are asked to make a contribution of £3.50 but if she joins this is credited towards her subscription. Dual members pay £12.85 to their second WI

WESTSIDE GROUP Newnham belongs to this group which is made up of local Wls (Longhope, Minsterworth, Newnham, Vale of Castiard and Westbury-on-Severn). The function of the Group is to encourage members from neighbouring Wls to get together to get to know each other and enjoy social events together.

GFW1 acts as an umbrella body for all the Wls in the County Federation and has a Federation Secretary, Liz Daykin, who works in WI House, Brunswick Square, Gloucester (01452) 523966. There are several committees that arrange events and activities to cater for the needs and interests of members. These events are advertised in the monthly newsletter GLOUCESTERSHIRE NEWS.

NFWI is an even bigger umbrella for all the Wls in England and Wales and has an office at 104 New King’s Road, London, SW6 4LY (02073) 719300.  Each year an Annual General Meeting is held at which one delegate represents up to 4 Wls, the 2010 meeting will be in London.

RESOLUTIONS on social and topical matters, submitted by individual Wls, are selected and discussed thoroughly at all levels. If carried at a general meeting they empower the WI to influence local and national policy making.

DENMAN COLLEGE is the WI’s own residential college at Marcham near Abingdon. There are courses of interest for everyone.

ACWW (Associated Country Women of the World) is a world-wide organisation to which NFWI belongs. Each WI donates small amounts to ACWW which funds projects to help under privileged women in third world countries.

COUNTRY MARKETS comprise of shareholders who do not have to be WI members but can earn money from selling home produced goods at these markets our nearest are Coleford and Gloucester

WI PUBLICATIONS These are NFWI newsletter, GFWI newsletters and a monthly magazine called “WI Life”. There are many booklets published on a wide range of subjects plus an annual diary and GFWI calendar.

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