{"id":553,"date":"2014-05-02T14:21:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T13:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=553"},"modified":"2014-05-02T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T13:36:46","slug":"agm-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2014\/05\/02\/agm-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"AGM 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">SI Cannock &amp; District held its AGM at The Barns on 15<sup>th<\/sup> April.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A team of six members had worked together throughout the year as President, the AGM was led by Team President Pam McGauley.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Pam reported on behalf of them all, thanking club members for their support and reflecting on the club\u2019s achievements over the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">During the year club members had continued to support Pathway, the refuge for women victims of Domestic Violence by providing toiletries throughout the year and Christmas gifts; St Giles Hospice by providing cakes on a regular basis \u2013 these are offered to visitors at the Hospice; the Soup Kitchen in Mill Street when Cannock Soroptimists provide and prepare a Christmas meal, last year for around 50 people and the Food Bank in Cannock.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>In addition they have held events to raise funds for international projects such as Birthing in the Gambia, known as the BIG project, raising a total of \u00a3596.40; for water projects in Africa &#8211; \u00a3293.00 and Oxfam\u2019s Motherhood Appeal- \u00a3250.00.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>They raised \u00a3137.00 for the International President\u2019s Appeal to provide solar power for cooking and lighting in areas of Asia and Africa so that women and girls do not have to spend most of their day collecting firewood and therefore can spend time on their education. The <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">project also provides women with education on renewable sources of energy and solar cookers and lanterns.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span>\u00a0 <\/span>The club has also been involved with giving talks to groups on the issue of sex trafficking and with collecting information about women in prison for the Prison Reform Trust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">The Team of Presidents \u2013 Pam McGauley, Sue Gay, Lakhwinder Thompson, Ronnie Reynolds, Carole Holdcroft and Eileen Cryer &#8211; were thanked by members for their work over the last year, for the fun and fellowship they had engendered.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Incoming President Janis Lomas presented them all with flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<a href=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/small-agm-flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-555\" alt=\"small agm flowers\" src=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/small-agm-flowers-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/small-agm-flowers-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/small-agm-flowers-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/05\/small-agm-flowers.jpg 1445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">Photo attached: standing, l tor: Team Presidents of SI Cannock &amp; District 2013 \u2013 14<span>\u00a0 <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>President Pam McGauley; <span>\u00a0<\/span>seated new President Dr Janis Lomas <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI Cannock &amp; District held its AGM at The Barns on 15th April.\u00a0 A team&#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-553","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>AGM 2014 | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : AGM 2014 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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