Welcome to the Southend Soroptimist Club

Welcome to the website of the Southend-on-Sea and District Club.

 

The Southend-on-Sea and District Club was founded in 1953. We are a lively and friendly group of women, with a strong sense of purpose! We have around 35 members from all walks of life and meet regularly – all our meetings and our social events are well attended. Our club is in the London Anglia Region and we enjoy meeting Soroptimists from across the region whenever we can.

Please take time to browse our site. You will find our Programme for the Year as well as news about all our club’s social activities. You can find out about the meetings we have already held and things we have already done and members can get up-to-date messages and club news.

Southend Soroptimists dove release at their spectacular Peace Vigil

Programme Action is the heart of Soroptimism and we keep ACTION at the top of our agenda. Locally, we have held  our own Peace Vigil at Hadleigh Castle and our International Women’s Day events. We continue to raise the profile of women’s rights issues in our neighbourhodd.  We supported Project SIerra, the international project, and we also supported our regional project in two Malawi schools. Our club purchased football kit and winter clothes for the children, chairs for a classroom and contributed cash for books. We are looking forward to working on our next regional project, supporting midwifery training in South Africa.

The club also works hard at our own local projects.Each year our President nominates a local charity for us to support and we are also involved in supporting women and girls in our area, particularly through our two local refuges and the local Domestic Violence Forums. We like to think that every club member can do something – no matter how much or how little time she can give to Soroptimism.

We welcome new members! Women who live in our area and think Soroptimism sounds interesting, can contact us, come along to one of our meetings and check us out!

You can contact us at southendsoroptimists@blueyonder.co.uk

We update our pages regularly with information about our projects so please visit again soon.

Club members are asked to visit regularly so that we don’t need to contact everyone individually – thank you! Visit the Members Only page for the most recent club minutes. It’s password protected so – Southend members – get in touch if you haven’t got the password!