SI Lichfield

Wolverhampton Dinner

dishi56@aol.com — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:41:51 +0000

Lichfield President Chris attended Wolverhampton Charter Dinner along with President Dishi, Bev and Margaret. Featured from Wolverhampton Club are President Julia and Tish.

£1400 raised at Christmas Fair

dishi56@aol.com — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:48:44 +0000

President Chris with Lichfield Soroptimists Bev, Donna and Margaret attended the Salvation Army Concert at the Symphony Hall by invitation of Major Steve White, Corps Officer at B’ham Citadel. The Christmas Fair on Saturday 10th December had raised £1400 for the Salvation Army and President Chris was proud to hand over the cheque.

Literacy, Brownies and Christmas

dishi56@aol.com — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:16:32 +0000

This year we are combining Christmas, Literacy and Brownies. Each Brownie will receive an Usborne Young Reader Shakespeare Play to add to the Classic Tale they received from us last year.

Lichfield Soroptimists are leading the carol concert and Guiding Staff are leading the fundraising during the evening.

Poppy Appeal 2011

dishi56@aol.com — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:53:52 +0000

Presidents Dishi Attwood and Chris Corless were delighted to present a cheque to David Haynes on behalf the British Legion. The amazing total of £1320 was well over the £1000 target with orders already received for next year!! Thank you to all the knitters and sellers – we couldn;t have done it without you!!

Water Aid

dishi56@aol.com — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:50:02 +0000

Members of Lichfield Club, Angela Reynolds, Donna Cope and Gill Tomlinson spent the morning in Lichfield library raising awareness. Gwyneth’s decorative tiolet was a star attraction with water saving crystals being given out to reduce the amount of water used for every flush. Leaflets and posters for Water Aid were also available. The team would like to thank the Library staff for their hospitality and continued support.

Remembrance Sunday

dishi56@aol.com — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:55:15 +0000

For the first time, I attended the Remembrance Sunday service at the National Memorial Arboretum.

From our region, President Judith, Immediate Past President Pat, Federation Councillor Bozena, Past President Pauline, Caroline and I attended. The presidents of all the Midland Regions were together for the first time. Members of Solihull Club attended and it was a pleasure to see them again. After the service, we all went to the Soroptimist Plot to place the two wreaths, one from Region and one from Federation. The peace pledge was read out.

Our Soroptimist Plot looks wonderfully planted and tended.

Federation Conference Brighton

dishi56@aol.com — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:43:35 +0000

I would like to direct you to the SIGBI Conference website for detailed information about the conference that Lesley, Margaret and I attended. It was very informative and there is something very special in being at a conference centre with hundreds of Soroptimists – any of whom we can approach and talk to and the work of their club will be based on the same principles as our own.

However, we would hate to minimise the fun aspects of the days in Brighton. We ate with Barnstaple Club members on Thursday evening and Wolverhampton members on Friday night. As you can see, Lesley and I found the opportunity to go onto Brighton Pier and were tempted by the fish…….the rest is in the photo!!

Partnership with Salvation Army

dishi56@aol.com — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:38:15 +0000

We were delighted to welcome Major Adrian Stringer to speak at our meeting. He was able to tell us about the wide number of projects that that they support and actively work on:

Accomodation for victims of domestic violence

Youth services for disaffected young people

Practical and emotional support for victims of trafficking

Community language classes for non English speakers

Hostels for homeless

Employment+ support for young jobless

Strengthening of family relationships with those who have left home through conflict

Employ over 300 people

Many of these are areas of work for Soroptimists and we asked if we could have a visit from the lead of one of the projects for a more detailed account. This has been agreed and will be on the calendar next year.

SI Lichfield welcomes 2 new members!

dishi56@aol.com — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:09:36 +0000

SI Lichfield are delighted to welcome two new members to our club. Kath and Annette have been introduced by Lesley Warfield and when she spoke about them to us yesterday, we were humbled by their commitment to work and service. Both have first hand experience in their work of supporting vulnerable members of our community – in the prison service and in elderly care. We look forward to working alongside them.

We also had a talk from Major Adrian Stringer of the Salvation Army. He told us about the breadth of the projects that the Salvation Army supports, domestic violence victims, trafficked men, women and children, ‘missing’ young people who live away fromt heir families, nursery education and their work with the homeless. This list is by no means exhaustive. We are delighted that we are having our annual fundraising event for them – they are very deserving recipients as their commitment to service matches our own.

Lichfield Club – meet the Presidents!

dishi56@aol.com — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:25:47 +0000

On the left is President Elect Donna and on the right, current President Chris. Both are keen Soroptimists who are leading the work of the Club, locally, nationally and internationally. They extend a warm welcome to women living or working in Lichfield and surrounding district to attend a regular meeting of the Club. This takes place in the training rooms of the Bowling Green Ember Inn on the second Wednesday of every month from 7.15pm. At the October meeting, our speaker will be Kathryn Duncan-Brown from the Association of Girl Guiding. We looking forward to seeing you!