Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum is a lead organisation in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire which works in partnership to reduce the individual and collective impact and costs of domestic abuse and sexual violence, by strengthening interagency work, increasing public awareness, and delivering prevention and early intervention work.

 SI Nottingham are working with NDVF by sponsoring the production of work booklets to help children and young people to talk about, understand and come to terms with their experiences of living with domestic violence. Through this project, we are helping children, young people and ultimately their mothers.

www.ndvf.org.uk

Following on from her own experiences with breast cancer Jane has published  a number of influential books  and is a founding member of Cancer Support International,  This new organisation SuPPort  is dedicated to helping people affected by, or fearful of, cancer. It builds on and develops the comprehensive approach to preventing and overcoming cancer first set out in Jane Plant‘s international best-selling book Your Life in Your Hands .

DATE: MONDAY 19^th SEPTEMBER 2011

TIME: 7.30pm

VENUE: QMC, School Of Nursing 

A FLOOR CLASSROOM

(Back entrance to QMC near the medical school).

Please e-mail Helen Dobbins at Helen.dobbins@nottingham.ac.uk to confirm attendance

Soroptimist International awards Best Practice awards for projects which fall under the organisation’s objectives. Our project ‘Women into Work- getting that job’ won the award under Objective 10: Assure women’s advancement in management, politics and decision-making.

This project began with club members working in their local comprehensive school setting up mock career interviews, to help prepare students for job and college interviews and to give them more confidence and improve interview skills. In this last year Nottingham members have been working  in the local Women’s centre organising courses to enable participants to have the background material and information, along with practical help, to write a CV, construct a covering letter, complete an application form and to participate in a mock interview. This has enabled women who have been long out of work, or indeed may not have worked before to confidently enter or return to the work place. This project empowers, enthuses, encourages and enables women into work.

Members of S.I. Nottingham attended the ‘100 Women of Substance’ reception at Nottingham Council House.  The club had been involved in nominating two of the women – Mary Lower, founder of the National Association of Child Contact Centres, and Dr Janet Folkes who is a balloonist. Chris Cutland, the Chief Executive of Women’s Aid Integrated Services was also amongst the 100. 

Click here to view the entire list.

On 8th March 2011, over 100 women including Midland East Region President Jasmit and Soroptimists from Nottingham and throughout the region congregated at Trent Bridge in Nottingham to celebrate the anniversary and to spread the message of peace and an end to violence against women.

At one point, there were 120 women on the Bridge. We were joined by Mothers’ Union, Nottingham Women’s Register, Derby WI, a group of young feminists and various representatives from churches and friends.  

We were also joined by Melanie Jeffs who is coordinator of Women’s Voluntary Action Network and initiator of the 100 women of substance project. 

Barbara McDonald, Co-ordinator ofthis event for SI Nottingham says “International Women’s Day is important for us, as we are a global organisation giving service locally, nationally and internationally to improve the lives of women and girls.” 
 
In London, members of Soroptimist International joined Women for Women International’s “Join Me On The Bridge  Campaign”  www.womenforwomen.org/bridge with Annie Lennox on the Millennium Bridge. More bridge events took place all over the UK and the world.

Soroptimists in Nottingham are celebrating their success in winning a Best Practice Award at their Annual Conference, which took place in Manchester in October.

It was awarded for their project with the Women's Centre in Nottingham, called 'Getting that Job'.  This is a four- week course, one morning a week and aims to give women a better chance of success when applying for jobs.

Topics include drafting CVs, application forms and preparing for interviews. It has been running twice or three times a year for almost two years and has become a useful and popular activity at the Centre.

Shown here are Nottingham Club Members Audrey Jones, Vivienne Pearson and Lynda Clifford receiving the award.

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On Saturday May 15th SI Nottingham launched their Freedom Wall in Arnold outside the Methodist Church.

They were joined by the Mayor of Gedling Mrs Pat Blandaner and her consort, and local MP Vernon Coaker. 

The aim of the Freedom wall was to raise public awareness about People Trafficking in all its forms. 

Members of the community were very interested in what we were trying to do and willingly signed the wall. They took away an information sheet and the exercise engendered much discussion.