An event simply not to be missed is our Silent Auction coming up in 2nd November 2011.
To celebrate our 60th Anniversary as a club we are sponsoring an outstanding local Paralympic athlete by the name of Zoe Newson.
Zoe Newson
Zoe is 19 years old and already a world champion powerlifter. Join us at the
Belstead Brook Manor Hotel in Ipswich at 7pm – 9pm for cocktails and canapes and a whole host of auction prizes. It promises to be a special evening dusted with a good helping of inspiration!
Suffragettes’ 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich with members of the Ipswich and District Soroptimist International
Members wearing Suffragette colours
A celebration of the centenary of a suffragette boycott of the census was held 10th April 2010 in Ipswich.
100 years ago around 30 votes-for-women campaigners spent the night of 2 April 1911 in an office at the Old Museum Rooms to avoid filling in the forms.
Their slogan was “If I am intelligent enough to fill in this form, I can surely put an X on a ballot paper”.
It is believed some of the protesters’ husbands guarded the door while the women had supper, sang protest songs and talked about the movement until dawn.
A night marking the protest was held at Arlington’s in the same building in Museum Street, which is now a restaurant. Soroptimist International were invited to join and enjoyed a splendid evening.