{"id":5335,"date":"2026-01-04T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:27:55","slug":"soroptimists-support-midwives-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2026\/01\/04\/soroptimists-support-midwives-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimists Support Midwives at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2026\/01\/Christmas-2025-New-Cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5336 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2026\/01\/Christmas-2025-New-Cross-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2026\/01\/Christmas-2025-New-Cross-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2026\/01\/Christmas-2025-New-Cross.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em>Lead Team President Carole Holdcroft and Programme Action Lead Tracey Stokes with staff from the Maternity and Neonatal department at New Cross Hospital<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each Christmas SI Cannock give gifts to a group of women who deserve our support and thanks. This year, together with SI Wolverhampton and SI Bilston they have chosen the staff who work in the postnatal and antenatal wards at the Maternity and Neonatal department in New Cross Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas, to thank the hardworking staff who support our local mothers and babies, they delivered 90 gifts of a multicoloured pen and hand cream for each of the midwives and staff who work on the wards . They also gave tubs of sweets to the Delivery Unit and the Athena Group (formerly known as the Vulnerable Women\u2019s Unit).<\/p>\n<p>SI Cannock\u2019s Lead Team President Carole Holdcroft and Programme Action Lead Tracey Stokes played Santa taking the presents to the hospital along with Season\u2019s Greetings from all members of the three clubs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead Team President Carole Holdcroft and Programme Action Lead Tracey Stokes with staff from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":885,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5335","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>Soroptimists Support Midwives at Christmas | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : Soroptimists Support Midwives at Christmas : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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