{"id":5532,"date":"2024-04-02T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2024-06-16T20:19:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T19:19:27","slug":"2-4-24-annual-general-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/2024\/04\/02\/2-4-24-annual-general-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"2.4.24 Annual General Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/files\/2024\/06\/marianne-ipp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5533\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/files\/2024\/06\/marianne-ipp-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/files\/2024\/06\/marianne-ipp-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/files\/2024\/06\/marianne-ipp.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>President Marianne welcomed Lesley Hall as a new member to the club having been introduced by Mavis who would continue to mentor Lesley as a member.<\/p>\n<p>President Marianne shared with club members:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I set out this time last year that my key theme for the year would be how to support our existing members \u2013 friendship, kindness, inclusion \u2013 the membership &amp; wellbeing committee led by Julie would be central to this \u2013 and my did she deliver! Cards, telephone calls, little chats\u2026..I have certainly felt the warmth and support at our meetings and its true to say I\u2019ve had many a hug!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019ve enjoyed our programme of speakers this year \u2013 again we tried something different &#8211; reducing to one business meeting has given us an opportunity to slot in extra contacts \u2013 orange caf\u00e9 every month \u2013 although a serious message it has been lovely opportunity to touch base a bit more informally \u2013 eat cake but, I think I miss the bacon baps with brown sauce!!<\/p>\n<p>Although we all knew it was going to be an important year for the club \u2013 <strong>75 years 1948-2023<\/strong>\u00a0little did we imagine how that idea would grow:<\/p>\n<p><strong>75th<\/strong> charter lunch at Bwyd Da;<\/p>\n<p><strong>75th<\/strong> celebration on the 5th March at Storiel: Exhibition and afternoon tea &#8211; guests included Regional President Janet and the Mayor of Bangor Elin Walker Jones;<\/p>\n<p><strong>75<\/strong> days of kindness to nature<\/p>\n<p><strong>75<\/strong> cold water dips by our Secretary Vikki during the year and raising a wonderful \u00a3150 to be shared between the RNLI and Seal Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>As your President I represented our club at Regional meetings, re-engaged with Bangor City Council at the 50th anniversary twinning event between Bangor &amp; Soest, took part in the Remembrance Sunday Ceremony at Bangor Cathedral, attended the South Caernarfonshire Christmas Carol &amp; Luncheon Portmeirion and Llandudno &amp; District\u2019s Luncheon, re-connected with Gorwel &amp; the Women&#8217;s Refuge and made new connections with Y Nyth in Ysgol Hirael &amp; Porthi Dre in Caernarfon.<\/p>\n<p>President\u2019s charities:<\/p>\n<p>In our 75th anniversary year, we supported two main charities: local groups who help individuals and families of those affected by long term substance misuse and The Veronika Lemishenko Charity Foundation which supports those in need who remain in Ukraine during this time of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>It was a year of fundraising, friendship &amp; fun as reflected on our website<\/p>\n<p>This year we reduced our number of formal business meetings to one a month and have been meeting on or around the 25th of the month for the Orange caf\u00e9 to raise awareness to end violence against women &amp; children. The Summer gathering afternoon tea at Diane\u2019s and pizza party at Y Glyn were a great success as was the Friendship Evening with our Ukrainian friends who treated us to borsht and other Ukrainian delicacies and the Get Set for Christmas with Susan and the clothes pop up fair \u2018rownd a rownd\u2019 at Porthi Dre Caernarfon. A huge thank you to our supporters and sponsors. In summary charity fund raising was incredible and raised to date nearly \u00a36,000.<\/p>\n<p>We also supported Ty Gobaith, North Wales Society for the Blind, Breast Cancer, Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) and the Stoma Support Team at Ysbyty Gwynedd.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all \u2013 and my personal thank you to the Executive Committee&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marianne was presented with the Immediate Past President badge of member Julie Lewis which she personally gifted to Marianne.<\/p>\n<p>The chain of office was presented to incoming President Diane Davies who <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bangor-and-district\/2024\/04\/17\/presidents-message\/\">addressed the Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Marianne welcomed Lesley Hall as a new member to the club having been introduced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":5533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2.4.24 Annual General Meeting | News | Blog | Events | SI Bangor and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bangor and District : Blog &amp; News : 2.4.24 Annual General Meeting : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bangor and District . 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