{"id":4923,"date":"2022-11-10T13:35:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:31:28","slug":"a-successful-conference-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/2022\/11\/10\/a-successful-conference-in-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Successful Conference in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six members of SI Bridgend attended the SIGBI 88<sup>th<\/sup> Federation Conference held in Belfast at the end of October. In her report following conference, Rayner Rees confirmed that over \u00a3600 was raised for Lily\u2019s Leaves through the sale of silver jewellery and the raffle of Barbara Dixon\u2019s embroidered picture on our stall at Conference. This will be match funded and used for the education and empowerment of girls in Nepal \u2013 a charity that was very close to Barbara Dixon\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n<p>Helen said that Barbara Dixon\u2019s widower, Alan Dixon, drew the raffle at Conference for the embroidered picture which was won by Sue Bennett of our own club! Rayner and Helen finally had the opportunity to present Sue Bennett with her beautiful tiger at the club meeting on 23 November. Sue was delighted to win the tiger, which was beautifully embroidered by the late Barbara Dixon, past SIGBI Programme Director.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2023\/02\/221123-Picture-presentation-for-Pipal-Tree-raffle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4924\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2023\/02\/221123-Picture-presentation-for-Pipal-Tree-raffle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2023\/02\/221123-Picture-presentation-for-Pipal-Tree-raffle.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2023\/02\/221123-Picture-presentation-for-Pipal-Tree-raffle-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a>It was Margaret Anthony and Lesley Davies\u2019 first time at Conference and they both told members about their experiences.\u00a0 Margaret told us of the fact that as \u201cfirst timers\u201d she and Lesley were given yellow lanyards to identify them which allowed other attendees to make them welcome. Margaret also particularly enjoyed the party atmosphere as well as the camaraderie, fun and friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Lesley\u2019s perspective of Conference was that she was overawed by the size of everything but she, like Margaret, said that everyone had made them very welcome. Lesley enjoyed the speakers and particularly liked the involvement of local young women in the Opening Ceremony which was a good introduction to Soroptimism.<\/p>\n<p>Both Margaret and Lesley enjoyed conference and are looking forward to future conference-going opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six members of SI Bridgend attended the SIGBI 88th Federation Conference held in Belfast at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":4927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,260],"tags":[240,50],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-news-2022-2023","tag-belfast-2022","tag-sigbi-conference"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Successful Conference in Belfast | News | Blog | Events | SI Bridgend and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bridgend and District : Blog &amp; News : A Successful Conference in Belfast : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bridgend and District . 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