Soroptimist International - Aberdeen

Soroptimist International Aberdeen is part of a worldwide volunteer organisation for women who want to transform the lives of other women and girls.

We want to make a difference!

Our Aberdeen club has been around for 95 years currently, with celebrations over one weekend in March 2024.  Membership is around 25 women from different backgrounds. We are involved in a range of voluntary activities including fundraising for various charities and providing practical support for local, national and international projects. We also meet regularly to hear a variety of speakers representing a wide range of charities and organisations.

We continue to support Grampian Women’s Aid and the Aberdeen Cyrenians locally. In recent years members were successful in reaching their fundraising target for the Rosie May Foundation, an international charity which, besides other projects, helps to provide ‘Think Pink’ Tuk Tuks for women drivers in Sri Lanka.

During this year we have donated funds to Bonnymuir Green Community Trust which is a thriving community owned green space with a productive, managed community garden, a social hub and cafe led by local volunteers.

We have also donated to Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHASS), Aberdeen Action on Disability, the local Woodside Women’s Group, Say Women, a Glasgow based charity providing accommodation for young women victims of sexual assault, to MISS and SANDS  local baby memorial gardens, and to Aberdeen Cyrenians Women’s Group for Christmas goody bags.

Every year SI Aberdeen club members join the global campaign to take action during the two weeks from 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, until 10th December, Human Rights Day, to raise awareness of and to stop gender based violence. The United Nations encourages us to ‘ORANGE THE WORLD’ ! Club members wear orange, meet up at orange cafes and for the last two years have, with the wonderful help of several shopkeepers, ‘Oranged’ Rosemount, a shopping area in the city. We have arranged for the local theatre to be lit up orange and marched with orange umbrellas!