{"id":4489,"date":"2024-04-17T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2024-04-17T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T22:17:37","slug":"presidents-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/2024\/04\/17\/presidents-message\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s message"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"western\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">President Diane Davies 2024\/25 2020\/21<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><b>2024\/25<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">It is an honour to serve a second term as club president and I hope that members will enjoy a variety of activities planned so we will have the opportunity to <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">HAVE FUN, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">LISTEN to some interestingly different speakers and subjects <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">ENJOY the company of fellow Soroptimists, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">PARTICIPATE in different activities, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">LAUGH OUT LOUD at social gatherings or <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">DINE in great company, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">TURN unwanted items into useful assets, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">ENTERTAIN other members of our community and <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">IMPROVE our environment on local \u2018gentle&#8217; walks<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">SIP MOCKTAILS and COCKTAILS and go on a HAWAIIAIN adventure!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a name=\"Bookmark\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Whilst also hopefully raising funds at tombolas, plant stalls, craft sales, auctions, lunches, tea parties, and of course our wonderful raffles!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">I have nominated the President\u2019s main charity as Breast Cancer Care at Ysbyty Gwynedd with the main focus on a Grand Prize Draw Raffle to be drawn at a Fundraising evening with an ALOHA theme in October with prizes that can provide pleasure and the monies raised will make a difference to women who have been affected by this devastating disease.\u00a0 The generous prize donors will be listed on a fundraising page on our website when the raffle is launched in May.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">During the year we will also continue to support other charities such as our local women&#8217;s refuge, children&#8217;s wellbeing facilities and other local charities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/2020\/04\/21\/2020-21-president-diane-davies\/president-diane-address\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4490\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/files\/2020\/04\/President-Diane-Address-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/files\/2020\/04\/President-Diane-Address-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/files\/2020\/04\/President-Diane-Address-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/files\/2020\/04\/President-Diane-Address.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">2020\/21<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">It is an honour and privilege to be President of SI Bangor &amp; District for 2020\/21<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">I was born in Bangor, but have lived in many other areas of the world\u00a0 and North Wales before returning to beautiful Ynys M\u00f4n \/ Anglesey where I now live overlooking the Menai Strait, Bangor and the Carneddau mountains of Snowdonia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">I have worked in the NHS since 2004 and now work in Corporate Governance at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor. This year will be a very challenging time for the NHS, and our communities, in looking after everyone affected by the Covid19 pandemic. I had decided that my nominated charity this year would be Dementia Care Services at Ysbyty Gwynedd, as nominated by past president Andy, and this will continue, along with support for other YG services as the health services evolve in the current climate. Another focus will be around recycling and using many of the things we no longer need to benefit others and be kind to our beautiful natural world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">We have started this year with our AGM held via Zoom and it has been wonderful to see so many members getting to grips with the technology to join in together for a different kind of meeting. Our buddy system is also helping us all to know how everyone is getting along.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">I am grateful for all the many well wishes received and look forward to the year ahead &#8211; in friendship, and a very special party when we all meet up together again.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Diane Davies 2024\/25 2020\/21 2024\/25 It is an honour to serve a second term&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":4490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presaddress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President&#039;s message | News | Blog | Events | SI Bangor and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bangor and District : Blog &amp; News : President&#039;s message : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bangor and District . 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