How we Started
The current Newstead W.I. was founded in 2008 after a former group known as The Women in Newstead closed when the Lottery Funding they had received ceased and they took the decision to join the Nottinghamshire WI Federation. The group started with 8 members and currently has 13.
These had been a previous WI in the village called Newstead Colliery W.I formed in 1939 but lapsed in 1970 due to the lack of a Treasurer.
Here are the words from an articled printed in the local paper in 1970
'Like a Pub with No Beer'
The small Nottinghamshire village of Newstead could have a profitable Women's Institute .... but they cannot find anyone to handle the finances.
it seems that no one wants to be Treasurer.
The situation has got so bad that at the Institute's last meeting they decided by secret ballot, that meetings should be suspended for three years.
Now it seems that there is a strong possibility of Newstead merging with the neighbouring Institute of Annesley.
But that means an English village without it's Women's Institute in it is like a pub with no beer!
It took another 38 years to reform!
These had been a previous WI in the village called Newstead Colliery W.I formed in 1939 but lapsed in 1970 due to the lack of a Treasurer.
Here are the words from an articled printed in the local paper in 1970
'Like a Pub with No Beer'
The small Nottinghamshire village of Newstead could have a profitable Women's Institute .... but they cannot find anyone to handle the finances.
it seems that no one wants to be Treasurer.
The situation has got so bad that at the Institute's last meeting they decided by secret ballot, that meetings should be suspended for three years.
Now it seems that there is a strong possibility of Newstead merging with the neighbouring Institute of Annesley.
But that means an English village without it's Women's Institute in it is like a pub with no beer!
It took another 38 years to reform!