Current Projects

SI Peterborough supports International Soroptimism with their current projects and campaigns which can be viewed on the main website.  We also support local projects and campaigns.

Each year the President chooses a local charity she wishes to support and we continue with projects that we have supported from previous years.

This year 2010/11 President Diana has chosen ‘Young Carers’.

Our ongoing projects are manning the desk at Shopmobility at Queensgate Shopping Centre twice a month, sponsoring, through Plan International, Luisa aged 13 who lives in the Dominican Republic. The sponsorship is for her education and health needs.Each year filling an Aquabox (A Rotary Charity -  to ‘provide a rapid response for provision of safe drinking water and welfare items’ to disaster areas. The Aquabox, once emptied, can be used to hold 1 100 litres of clean drinking water). We also collect items of clothing and small household items for Timestop which helps homeless young people,  give Christmas presents for women at Peterborough Womens’ Aid and donate a prize for a student at the Regional College cookery school.

Fundraising is very important for most of our projects and we hold fun social events in order to do this.