{"id":5617,"date":"2025-11-08T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:31:37","slug":"bridgend-soroptimists-enjoying-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/2025\/11\/08\/bridgend-soroptimists-enjoying-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgend Soroptimists Enjoying Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cohort of members from SI Bridgend attended the 91st Soroptimist Internatioal conference from 31st Oct &#8211; 2nd November in Birmingham. It was a great overall experience with a selection of motivating and inspiring speakers.<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5618 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference5.png 694w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference5-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5619\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference3.png 664w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference3-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>Professor Suzie Imber was incredible. Suzie, who is a space physicist and high altitude mountaineer, shared how amongst so many other roles she managed to visit schools to talk to young people about studying science.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Hitchcock shared the story of founding her charity \u2018From me to You\u2019 which helps ease the isolation of illness especially cancer by sending letters of kindness and joy to offer a lifeline to the outside world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5620 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference4.png 691w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference4-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>Soroptimist is worldwide organisation with 65,000 members making a difference to disadvantaged women and girls by Enabling, Empowering and Educating! Flags of countries who are part of the Federation are shown here. A few days filled with Fun, Friendship and Learning alongside a sense of purpose. Proud to be Soroptimist!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The conference once again offered a great opportunity to meet up with old friends and new from Wales South Region, as well as across our Federation!<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5622 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference6.png 661w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bridgend-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/Birmingham-conference6-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cohort of members from SI Bridgend attended the 91st Soroptimist Internatioal conference from 31st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":5623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,297],"tags":[169,211,13,50],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-news-2025-2026","tag-bridgend-soroptimists","tag-fun-and-friendship","tag-si-bridgend","tag-sigbi-conference"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bridgend Soroptimists Enjoying Conference | News | Blog | Events | SI Bridgend and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bridgend and District : Blog &amp; News : Bridgend Soroptimists Enjoying Conference : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bridgend and District . 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