Club news

Dawn Jacobs-Clutton is the newest member of SI of Cannock & District.  She was inducted by President Eileen Cryer at the September business meeting.  Dawn is Company secretary for Brownshore Motors Ltd, a post she has held for 14 years.  … Continued

Members of SI Cannock & District were part of Freshers’ Week at Cannock College this September.  They joined with other organizations giving information to students embarking on new courses at the College. Soroptimists were promoting the Purple Teardrop Campaign and … Continued

Purple Teardrop Soroptimist Ann Rotchell hosted a ‘Purple Party’ at her home recently to raise funds for publicity materials for the club’s latest project Purple Teardrop. This project is concerned with the issue of trafficking of women and girls. Everyone … Continued

The evening of the 9th August saw SI Cannock & District hosting a Fun Quiz Night, held at St Luke’s School in Cannock. Twelve teams entered – Soroptimists brought friends and family to join with them and a team from … Continued

SI Cannock & District held their annual Summer Celebration on a beautifully sunny day at the end of July.  Each year the club President decides how she would like the Club to celebrate this ‘birthday’ event, commemorating the first ever … Continued

Historian and Curator of Tutbury Castle Lesley Smith entertained over 100 guests with her after dinner talk ‘Sex and the Tudors’. SI Cannock & District organised the event to raise funds for Pathway, the local project which supports women victims … Continued

Member of SI Cannock & District Trish Smith spends part of each year in her home in South Africa where she is very involved with helping women and children in the townships.  The Cannock Soroptimist club supports the work she … Continued

Cannock Soroptimists were delighted to hear a good news story about Stafford and Cannock Hospitals from their speaker Julie Hendry, Director of Patient Experience for the Mid Staffordshire hospital Trust. Julie spoke candidly, she didn’t try to cover anything up … Continued

T Members of SI Cannock & District recently watched a moving recording of a choir in a village in Kenya – the villagers were singing to say ‘thank you’ to the club members for providing their village with a grinding … Continued

Soroptimists are asking the people of Cannock to help them with their continued support of Pathway, the local refuge for women victims of domestic violence, by bringing along to their stall at Cannock Carnival on July 16th whatever they can … Continued