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Members of SI Bristol at the Regional AGM held in St Austell on Saturday 20th June.  We were invited to display our Programme Action activities.   One of Bristol club’s members volunteered to take part in a Self Defence Demonstration, by James Turner, Regional Kick Boxing Champion   Afternoon Tea SI Bristol celebrated our 95th anniversary at the Marriott Royal Hotel with a sumptuous afternoon tea. We were delighted to host visiting dignitaries and members from across the region as well as members’ friends and relatives. The first meeting in 1920 was hosted in the same hotel.  It was then known as the Royal Hotel.                       SI Bristol have been working on a garden project with Eden House see Programme Action page for more information Soroptimists and Rotarians joined forces to marshal Sky Ride Bristol

Programme Action: On-going Activities

Programme Action: On-going Activities

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Learning in Lima & the Women’s Initiative                                                             SI Bristol have been supporting the Learning in Lima project since its inception in 2005. Sylva, a former member of SI Bristol, set up an infants school in Lima after seeing so many children going without basic education. We are proud to support Sylva in her work, through regular fundraising activities and she often pays us a visit when in the UK to keep us updated on the school’s progress. Recently we have contributed to funds to pay for a minibus for the school to assist them in day trips out. The school also supports the children’s mothers by offering them work helping out at the school providing an important community

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2015 – Eden House Garden Project SI Bristol have been working with Eden House Women’s Centre, as part of Bristol’s 2015 European Green Capital initiative. In March 2015, we teamed up with Eden House (a rehabilitative project for females at risk of offending behaviour) to help one of their Client Lead’s start a gardening project that will directly benefit the women who use the service. The project was launched on the 7th April with a talk by Sue Oakey, a prominent local Garden Designer, who advised us on garden planning and what plants to grow in the space available. Never ones to shy away from hard work, SI Bristol started digging and planting the following week! Now, a small herb garden has been planted alongside vegetables and fruit. The aim of the project is to grow food for the women to cook in their healthy

Tea for Special Friends Club

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Tea for Special Friends Club On 13th June we held a tea party, at St Mary Magdalene Church Rooms Stoke Bishop, for some of the families who belong to the Special Friends Club. Several families came with their children. It was an enjoyable afternoon and included crafts and singing, as well as a delicious tea supplied by members of SI Bristol. The families who came, wrote afterwards that they had had a “wonderful time”.   Voices Together Concert On Saturday 13th November Soroptimist International of Bristol held a very successful fund-raising evening at St. Mary Magdalene Church in aid of our President’s Charity ‘Special Friends Club’. The concert was attended by the Lord Mayor, Clare Campion Smith; the Vice Lord Lieutenant, Dr. Timothy Chambers and the High Sheriff, Dr. Rosalind Kennedy. It was indeed a concert of ‘Voices Together’ as we were entertained by two local