Christmas – a time for giving
And that is exactly what Cannock Soroptomists will be doing again this year. There are many things the Club members do throughout the year to help women and children locally and globally, but Christmas is a time of year when it is especially good to remember and help those in need.
Members have donated gifts which will be wrapped and given to the women and children who will spend Christmas living in the refuge for women victims of domestic abuse. The gifts provided this year included clothing, toys, books, toiletry sets: the things we all love to receive on Christmas Day, though for these women and their children the gifts will mean rather more as they will all be without any other family members at that time.
It has become tradition for Club members to provide and cook a 3 course Christmas meal during December for those people who use Mill Street soup kitchen in Cannock – some of them are homeless, for all of them this will be their only hot meal that day, possibly that week.
Instead of sending cards to each other at Christmas Cannock Soroptimists give a donation to the Soroptimist International President’s Appeal which this year is Water, Women and Leadership.
Soroptimists celebrate themselves, too and this year their Christmas Celebration will be held at The Barns on December 13th. They will enjoy Christmas Fare and will be entertained by singers ‘Voices of Tantallon’.