About our Club

Members of Soroptimist International,
Lincoln and District, England.

Welcome You

WHERE IS LINCOLN ?                         
Lincoln is a cathedral city situated on the East of England

A brief history of Lincoln and District Club
The inaugural meeting of the Lincoln and District Club was held on 20th October, 1945, with Miss Joyce as its first president. Our mother club is Nottingham.
In its first year it achieved 37 members who went to a regular monthly meeting and joined together in the first charter ceremony on 16th October, 1946. The club’s service to the local community started early with members holding a party for 30 girls from the remand home in January, 1947. During their evening meetings members heard talks on various topics including art, crime and travel. Magazines were collected for women in prison and a parcel of toys and clothes was sent to a children’s nursery in Italy.
Times were still hard; petrol was rationed so travelling to other clubs was difficult and minutes also record members’ thanks to the Beverley Hills Soroptimists in the United States for the parcels they had sent.
During 1948 club member Mrs Turner donated a solid silver Georgian spoon to be melted for the president’s badge, designed and made by students from the Lincoln School of Art. Miss Spence-Whyte gave moonstones and garnets. The insignia, which depicts St Hugh of Lincoln and his swan, was finished in 1949.
Early friendship links were made with clubs in Santa Anna in the United States and Esbjerg in Denmark.
By the early 1950s membership was up to 50 and that number has remained fairly constant ever since.

The Club Today

We currently have 51 members from a wide range of professional and business organisations in the area.  We are always eager to welcome new, lively members willing to commit themselves wholeheartedly to the club’s aims and activities.

The club meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month with the exception of August when there are no meetings. We meet at Bishop Grosseteste University College, Longdales Road, Lincoln.   At one monthly meeting we discuss the club’s business and at the other we enjoy speakers on a variety of topics.  Club members can also meet informally monthly at the supper meetings and a ‘ladies who lunch’ group, both are relaxed gatherings, at local venues.
There is a varied programme of fundraising events which we aim to make enjoyable and social occasions.  Proceeds from these events go towards the President’s charity and Programme Action events.
The club also contributes to the Soroptimist International appeal.