WELCOME TO SI BARNSTAPLE AND DISTRICT SOROPTIMISTS
Knickers for Knowledge
The Club`s long term project, Knickers for Knowledge, started in 2011, has been very successful over many years.
A club member had initially raised the issue of how girls in sub-Saharan Africa and other poor areas of the world were having their education ruined by missing school through not having the necessary sanitary protection.
In this project we sort and sell good condition, donated clothing to raise money for education. With the raised funds, we work closely with our friends in SI Bulawayo to support girls’s education in a rural area of the country.
School children are provided with new underwear and the older girls and teachers with sanitary protection.
Some of our members have visited Zimbabwe to view the project in action.
Mental Awareness Week 12th – 18th May
SI Swallows
Congratulations to SI Swallows the new club chartered in Wigan this April.
Si Sent Lisi
Congratulations to the new soroptimist club on St Lucia in the Caribbean region that was chartered this month.
Why have we the flag of St Lucia below ?
This month a new club is being chartered in St Lucia, in the Caribbean, to the Federation of Great Britain & Ireland, The club is chartering with 28 founder members and is the result, it has been reported, of many years of hard work by Soroptimist members in the West Indies.
Water Aid
A memory from seven years ago but every year since then members of SI Barnstaple and District have acknowledged World Water Day, raising funds for WaterAid with their golden toilet, as they did today at a local garden centre.
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day falling on a Saturday certainly made a difference to the attention that we members of SI Barnstaple and District received as we gave away 100 white roses, with our contact details attached, to women in the High Street today. The Mayor and her Consort joined us, sharing the smiles and thanks we received.
Stamp out spiking Campaign
Stamp out spiking Campaign
200 bags of Spikeys and Stop Topps, plus 100 beer mats, all made ready by members of SI Barnstaple and District for distribution by the Police Licensing Officer to the licensed premises in North Devon and Torridge.
Petal Scattering in the River Taw
At the end of a busy week members of SI Barnstaple and District held their annual petal scattering event. Always a poignant time to think about those men, women and children who survived domestic abuse, and to remember those who didn’t. Our aim was to raise awareness.
Remembrance Day
Jenny Arnold , a long term member of The Barnstaple and District Soroptimists just about to lay the SI Barnstaple and District wreath last Sunday morning. in Rock Park The rare November sun shone down on the ceremony.
World Mental Health Day
On World Mental Health Day members of Soroptimist International Barnstaple and District were joined by the Mayor as they celebrated the permanent signage of a bench, encouraging those in need of company to sit and chat.
International Literacy Day
SI Barnstaple and District had a busy few hours, giving away books in recognition of International Literacy Day, The chit chat with people about their choices of books and what they mean to them made the giving up of our Saturday morning worthwhile.
Raising Funds for Local Charities
Oceanfest Croyde
We three members of SI Barnstaple and District distributed 200 bags of Spikeys and StopTopps at the annual Oceanfest, held in Croyde. We listened to stories of spiking from some people and educated others in how to avoid being a victim of the crime, by using the deterrents that our club has been giving away for free for several years. If we save one person we will have done our job
Picnic in the Park
The Anti-Spiking Campaign
Below a picture of supplies of spikeys and stop tops ready to be bagged up before distribution in the club`s ongoing campaign against drink spiking.
Raising funds for The North Devon Hospice
A Human Rights Day Brunch
Gardening at the North Devon Women`s Refuge
