People made generous contributions to our chosen charity, The Ukraine Humaitarian Appeal, at the charity car park held at Whitstable Junior School this weekend. The sunshine drew lots of people into Whitstable and those choosing to park at the school supported the appeal with positive comments and often large donations. Between 8am and 5pm we raised a new record of £812 with half going to the school and half to support the humanitarian work in Ukraine.  Well done to those members who took shifts on the day and to the customers who donated so generously.  

              To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Soroptimist International Canterbury, our club donated 30 trees to be planted by SI Meru in Meru, Kenya and 30 trees which were planted in the grounds of Simon Langton Girls School, Canterbury. Members supported students and teachers of the school to plant the final three trees on Wednesday 30th March. #treeplanting #environment #sicanterbury

                Sainsbury’s Whitstable and Tesco’s Whitstable donated over 50 Easter eggs for children supported by Rising Sun Domestic Abuse Service. SI Canterbury club members enjoyed delivering these in plenty of time for Easter.

SI Canterbury members support International Womens Day 2022. This year’s theme is #Breakthebias but how often do you innocently contribute to the bias? If we want to collectively forge women’s equality, we have to take individual ownership. the responsibility to break the bias must start with ourselves. IWD sparks an important conversation about women’s equality and supporting women facing poverty to build a better future for their families. Domestic abuse will affect 1 in 4 women in their lifetime. Women still face challenges in the sciences and in business. The economic growth of the world has been found to be directly tied to the increasing percentage of educated women. In over 34 countries it has been seen that the education of women and girls resulted in 50% economic growth.

SI Canterbury members undertook a beach clean activity on Seasalter Bech, Whitstable on 5th March.     Lots of plastic, oyster bed debris, face masks and dog poo bags were collected. Thanks to Jackie, Keji, Jan, Mary, Ruth, Jane plus David and Adrian.