{"id":5804,"date":"2025-04-10T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2025-04-10T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:42:42","slug":"mp-presented-with-certificate-of-honorary-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/2025\/04\/10\/mp-presented-with-certificate-of-honorary-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"MP presented with Certificate of Honorary Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessica Toale, MP for Bournemouth West and the first female MP in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP), visited SIB on April 9<sup>th<\/sup> to talk to members of the club and friends about her journey to Westminster. She shared her background, motivation to enter politics and some of her experiences along the way. Everyone present was a resident within the BCP area and we were all very pleased to hear about her commitment to, among other things, revitalising the town centre and improving women\u2019s safety, working with the council and citizens to achieve significant improvement. In recognition of her accomplishments as a strong female leader, we were pleased to present her with a certificate of honorary membership saying we wished to \u201crecognise you as an outstanding woman in our local community. As a global volunteer organisation with the aim to educate, empower and enable women and girls to reach their full potential, we believe your values align well with our own. Welcome!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">She graciously accepted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2025\/04\/Jessica-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5806\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2025\/04\/Jessica-2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2025\/04\/Jessica-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2025\/04\/Jessica-2.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2025\/04\/Jess-cert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5807\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2025\/04\/Jess-cert-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2025\/04\/Jess-cert-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2025\/04\/Jess-cert.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are interested in this and would like to come along to a Soroptimist International Bournemouth meeting to find out more, please email us at sigbibournemouth@hotmail.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Toale, MP for Bournemouth West and the first female MP in Bournemouth, Christchurch and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":839,"featured_media":5807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MP presented with Certificate of Honorary Membership | News | Blog | Events | SI Bournemouth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bournemouth : Blog &amp; News : MP presented with Certificate of Honorary Membership : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bournemouth . 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