{"id":5,"date":"2009-04-28T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T11:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/aberdeen\/about-our-club\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T14:00:54","slug":"about-our-club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/aberdeen\/about-our-club\/","title":{"rendered":"About Our Club- Front page"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WELCOME TO SI ABERDEEN<\/h2>\n

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We want to make a difference!<\/p>\n

Our Aberdeen club has been around for 96 years currently, with members celebrating our 95th anniversary over one weekend in March last year. Members from a variety of backgrounds are involved in a range of voluntary activities including providing practical support for local, national and international projects as well as fundraising for various charities. We also meet regularly to hear a variety of speakers representing a range of charities and organisations. Recently club members were delighted to meet up with SIGBI Federation President as she travelled around Scotland visiting various Soroptimist clubs.<\/p>\n

We continue to support Grampian Women\u2019s Aid<\/strong> and the Aberdeen Cyrenians<\/strong>\u00a0locally. In recent years members were successful in reaching their fundraising target for the Rosie May Foundation<\/strong>, an international charity which, besides other projects, helps to provide ‘Think Pink’ Tuk Tuks for women drivers in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

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During this year we have donated funds to Bonnymuir Green Community Trust\u00a0<\/strong>which is a thriving community owned green space with a productive, managed community garden, a social hub and cafe led by local volunteers.<\/p>\n

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A wall decoration at Bonnymuir Community Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We have also donated to Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHASS), <\/strong>Aberdeen Action on Disability, <\/strong>the local Woodside Women’s Group, Say Women, <\/strong>a Glasgow based charity providing accommodation for young women victims of sexual assault,\u00a0to MISS<\/strong> and SANDS <\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>local baby memorial gardens, and to Aberdeen Cyrenians Women’s Group<\/strong> for Christmas goody bags.<\/p>\n

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At the Woodside Community Centre with the Chair of Woodside Women’s Group and Aberdeen City Lady Provost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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<\/strong> of Violence against Women,<\/strong> until 10th December, Human Rights Day, <\/strong>to raise awareness of and to stop gender based violence. The United Nations encourages us to ‘ORANGE THE WORLD’ <\/strong>! 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!<\/p>\n

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