{"id":5376,"date":"2024-12-01T18:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2025-02-13T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:03:13","slug":"christmas-gifts-from-bridgend-soroptimists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/2024\/12\/01\/christmas-gifts-from-bridgend-soroptimists\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Gifts from Bridgend Soroptimists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year Bridgend Soroptimists have once again acted as Father Christmas for a number of organisations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/Gifts-for-Llamau-Picture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5377 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/Gifts-for-Llamau-Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/Gifts-for-Llamau-Picture1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/Gifts-for-Llamau-Picture1-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>To begin with, a selection of luxury toiletry items were carefully chosen and popped into pretty washbags to create beautiful pamper bags for the ladies in the Bridgend Women\u2019s Refuge. The children in the refuge were given selection boxes and other Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/Gifts-for-Emmaus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5378 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/Gifts-for-Emmaus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/Gifts-for-Emmaus.png 459w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/Gifts-for-Emmaus-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members also wrapped Christmas goodies for the companions at Emmaus South Wales, some of whom have not received any Christmas gifts for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/aIMG-20241209-WA0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5382 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2025\/02\/aIMG-20241209-WA0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a>And last but not least, children\u2019s toys and books were collected for SPLICE Child and Family Project to be distributed amongst families in the area who are struggling at this expensive time of year. We\u2019d also like to thank Liam Dixon, a generous friend and supporter of Bridgend Soroptimists, who added a large number of Selection boxes to our donation to SPLICE.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Christmas to you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Bridgend Soroptimists have once again acted as Father Christmas for a number of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":5383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,286],"tags":[169,295,294,291,214,17,13,296,166],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-news-2024-2025","tag-bridgend-soroptimists","tag-children","tag-christmas-gifts","tag-emmaus-south-wales","tag-llamau","tag-programme-action","tag-si-bridgend","tag-splice-child-family-project","tag-womens-refuge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christmas Gifts from Bridgend Soroptimists | News | Blog | Events | SI Bridgend and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bridgend and District : Blog &amp; News : Christmas Gifts from Bridgend Soroptimists : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bridgend and District . 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