The weather was excellent and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.

Their efforts have also contributed to the Rhyl in Bloom competition.

St. Kentigern’s, based in North Wales, offers palliative day care and an eight bed residential unit which provides medical and nursing care for patients together with social, emotional and spiritual support for themselves and their families.  The vast majority of the Hospice income is derived from fund-raising and donations.

• What a busy Bee! lot we have been at Rhyl & District Sorops! Our President , and members have been supporting  PAC  and having fun whilst they have been hard at it! Our President’s Bee Project involved a lot of work ensuring that schools in the area received baskets  of samples of different types of honey, Beeswax and  samples of bi products from  Honey and wax, together with a learning resource pack and seeds ensuring they were ‘hands on’ with planting to attract the bees to ensure we all continue to enjoy the fruits of their labour, from honey through to the fertilisation of our orchards and plants.  Each child received  Bee badge. The members also planted seeds  of Sunflowers and it culminated with a competion at out last meeting  with two members winning prizes.
  

  1st Prize was awarded to Mrs. Brigitte Lloyd-Jones

• Our Charter Dinner included the celebration of the Royal Wedding and a presentation to our long Serving member Jean Fazackerley by our Regional President Jacqui Weatherill accompanied by some very melodic harp music and talented singer Joanne Wagstaff.
• The club also had a reflection afternoon at Bodelwyddan Castle in which provided some very interesting interaction between the members and a highly satisfactory healthy high tea!
• Our club also organised a Fashion Show/Recruitment evening attracting possible new members at the Kinmel Manor Hotel, we were very fortunate to have very good quality clothing donated from our members and families to support this event – the united chant that could be heard reverberating around the venue was “I am only parting with this because it doesn’t fit me any more…. a window of opportunity for some sponsored weight loss through healthy eating here me thinks…
• The Cheshire Show was a resounding success-lots of contacts made and our stand  along with the others introduced Soroptimism to many and raised awareness of who  we are and what we do.
• Building on the Cheshire Show, our President and President Elect went charging around the Cheshire countryside in persuit of promised cheeses (to help the wine go down!) for our Medeival  Night at Bodrhyddan Hall and came back with a veritable cornucopia of cheeses donated very generously to the cause.  We raised a £1000 for Diabetes UK towards Pancreatic Research being carried out at Bangor University and £1000 for St Kentigerns Hospice all accompanied by magnificent performances by the Amici Del Canto Choir and the very talented auctioning skills of  a local auctioneer.  Very grateful thanks go  to Lord and Lady Langford for their support and loan of the splendid venue and to the members who offered unstinting support throughout.
• Just before we recessed for August we  joined in with the Rhyl in Bloom and some of the members planted tubs at Rhyl Railway Station to help improve  the ambiance and  look of the  Station.  
• If we include the Contact the Elderly Tea Parties, Friendship BBQ’s, and the hundred and one other things we do as a club, Rhyl & District Sorops will be continuing to be ‘Busy Bees’  with their Keep Wales Tidy Week by doing a river clean at Rhuddlan  and be continuing to be ‘Busy Bees’  for a long time to come!

Denise Harris Edwards   

 President Elect

Members will assist by providing tranport to escort the elderly to and from their homes and will also help with the catering.

Members are also looking forward to a Flower Decoration Workshop to be held in November, when Hilda will be demonstrating the art of making floral decorations.

Bringing Back the Bees

In view of the plight of the diminishing bee population SI Rhyl have chosen this subject as a project for Programme Action.

Basket of bee products distributed to participating schools

Seven local schools, approximately 300 children, will be participating in the project and “packs” containing various products produced from bees, to include honey and beeswax have been prepared and distributed to the schools to raise awareness of how important a role bees play in our day to day life.  The three best projects will be presented to a Teachers’ Conference in Cardiff and the winners will receive a certificate for learning beyond the classroom.  A £500 grant has been received from Rhyl Town Council Communities Fund  

A competition for the best Sunflower is also being organised and Members have been given Sunflower seeds to plant and nurture. 

Contacts have been made with the Beekeepers Association and information received on setting up a beehive on an allotment.

April

30^th      46^th Annual Charter Dinner

May

4^th        Business Meeting and Programme Action

18^th      Fun & Feathers Fashion Show – Recruitment

 June

1^st        Business Meeting

12^th      Reflection Away Day with Afternoon Tea

15^th      Jubilee Trust: Guest Speaker Mr. Peter Wilkinson

 July

2^nd        Medieval Evening with Amici Del Canto Choir

6^th        Business Meeting: Guest Speaker Canon Glyn Price, Air Ambulance

30^th      BBQ Fun Afternoon

September

7^th        Business Meeting

21^st      Social Meeting – Life on the Ocean Waves: Guest Speaker John Povah

October

5^th        Business Meeting and Porgramme Action

19^th      International Night: The King and I:  Guest Speaker Mrs. M. Walmsley

27^th-

29^th      SIGBI Conference – to be held in Brighton

 November

2^nd        Business Meeting

13^th      Remembrance Sunday

14^th      World Diabetes Day

16^th      Christmas Decoration Workshops and Supper

26^th      Crafts & Coffee Morning

 December

2nd      Christmas Carol Concert

7^th        Business Meeting

10^th      Human Rights Day

14^th      Christmas Party

2012

January

18^th      Combined Business and Social Evening 

February

1^st        Business / Speaker Meeting

15^th      Exercise for you – Healthy Supper: Guest Speaker Mr. Paul Edwards 

March

7^th        Gwyl Dewi – Celebrating St. David’s Day

10^th      Saturday of Service: Beach Clean

21^st      Business Meeting 

April

18^th      Annual General Meeting