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3) The WI sparked a national debate about child evacuees worth over £250M since the pandemic started. We hope this will have sustained
businesses through the lockdown, and that the local and national economy will
In 1941, the WI published the results of its survey of WI members who were housing start to pick up again soon.
evacuees from towns and cities. The survey, which showed that some young
evacuees were malnourished, unclean and in poor health, prompted national
debates about the health of children living in poverty in urban areas of Britain. Lulworth Firing
This debate led to the establishment after the end of the Second World War of Following our recent regular update with the Commanding Officer Bovington and
family allowances to help those in poverty. Lulworth we understand that there will be no firing at Lulworth ranges over August,
however this can change if circumstances change.

4) The WI was actually founded in Canada
Parking Charges
The Women’s Institute first originated in Ontario, Canada, in 1897. After giving a
talk at the Farmer’s Institute, reformer Adelaide Hoodless inspired farmers Janet Strategy -
and Erland Lee to set up an organisation to bring together women from different proposals
communities, and to teach them about childcare, controlling family budgets,
and some aspects of farming. The purpose of this
strategy is to align

parking charges across
5) The WI prompted a ‘great jam D o r s e t C o u n c i l
debate’ locations bringing
c o n s i s t e n c y a n d
Renowned for their jam making, in structure to all charges.
1979 the WI launched a ‘great The three objectives
jam debate’. The institute argued are to:
that the law should be reformed
so that WI members could be • Implement a 3-level
exempt from registering their tariff that recognises
kitchens with local authorities in t h e d i f f e r e n c e
order to sell their jam to the between costal, town
public. The WI was successful. and rural locations

I hope you found these facts • Support Dorset Councils goals to reduce carbon footprint
interesting too!
• Provide fairer charging options for Dorset Council and for residents
For details of future meetings, or further information about the WI, please contact
Di Pitts on 01929 471322. You can see more about our past meetings and The strategy includes car park tariffs, on-street tariffs and car park permits. On-
activities on our new website, https://bereregiswi.weebly.com/, and on our street residents’ permit schemes, blue badge schemes and health care permits
Facebook page, @BereRegisWI. are currently not included in this strategy. More information when the scheme is
finalised, Any increase in charges will be subject to the usual procedures for
consultation and advertisement.

Ministerial Statement on National Park proposals (including
Dorset)

A minister recently made a statement on proposals for national Parks across the
Country. Four areas have been selected for detailed analysis work to be

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