{"id":1011,"date":"2017-04-30T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2017-04-30T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T10:20:09","slug":"new-presidential-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2017\/04\/30\/new-presidential-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Presidential Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Soroptimist International, Cannock &amp; District AGM in April President Carole Holdcroft handed over the chain of office to new President Val Jones.Val began her year by saying that she had a really hard act to follow and commended Carole on the excellent way she had led and enthused club members during the year.\u00a0 She said that as a relatively new Soroptimist [she has been a member of the club for almost 5 years] she stands in awe of the club\u2019s more experienced members and will be looking to them to work with her and advise her during the coming year.\u00a0 She then presented out-going President Carole with her Past President\u2019s badge and with a beautiful arrangement of yellow flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Val recently retired from a full time career in the NHS having qualified as a nurse, midwife and health visitor and is now doing part time consultancy. Her appointments included being a Director of Nursing in a large Birmingham Primary Care Trust and then latterly as the Chief Nurse for Cannock and Stafford Clinical Commissioning Groups.<\/p>\n<p>Val\u2019s theme for the year is \u2018Women in Power and Women as Victims\u2019 and many of the speakers for the year have been chosen to reflect that theme.\u00a0 She has chosen two charities to benefit from fund-raising and awareness-raising during her year, although they will not be the only groups or charities to benefit.\u00a0 One is Pathway, the local project which supports women victims of domestic violence and which has been a continuing focus for the club for many, many years.\u00a0 Val is also including a new charity called <strong>\u201cAction on Puerperal Psychosis\u201d<\/strong> which focuses on women who, because of childbirth, become psychotic and temporarily insane; killing their child and often themselves. Val explained that she has had experience of this in her professional life and whilst it is not common it is far from being a rare event.<\/p>\n<p>New President Val also has a motto for the year: <strong>\u201cNever stop Learning\u201d<\/strong>: you\u2019re never too old about to learn about yourself and what you\u2019re capable of, about the world around you and where you fit in it. \u00a0The first meeting of President Val\u2019s year will be a business meeting on May 9<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2017\/04\/Carole-Pres-Val-flowers-Large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1012\" src=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2017\/04\/Carole-Pres-Val-flowers-Large-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Carole  Pres Val - flowers  (Large)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2017\/04\/Carole-Pres-Val-flowers-Large-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2017\/04\/Carole-Pres-Val-flowers-Large-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2017\/04\/Carole-Pres-Val-flowers-Large.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos attached: out-going President Carole Holdcroft receiving flowers from new President Val Jones<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Soroptimist International, Cannock &amp; District AGM in April President Carole Holdcroft handed over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Presidential Year | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : New Presidential Year : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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