Welcome to our Club

Hello and welcome to our club: Soroptimist International of Chelmsford & District.

You can get in touch with us by email: sichelmsford@gmail.com

WHO EXACTLY ARE SOROPTIMISTS?

Soroptimist International is the world’s largest women’s service organisation with Consultative Status at the United Nations. For more information about this, visit our ‘Who We are’ page. The Chelmsford club was founded in 1951 and has given over 60 years of service to our community. We are a group of like-minded women, united by our passion for improving the lives of women and children locally, nationally and internationally.

We are a non-political and non-religious organisation.

Thursday Evening 15th November we are pleased to welcome Maria Vlahakis from Womankind WORLDWIDE see their work at www.womankind.org.uk  We will be pleased to welcome visitors with an interest in improving the lives of women and girls around the world.   For catering purposes, please let us know by 10 November if you are planning to attend.   That’s because we’re also providing tea and cakes! sichelmsford@gmail.com

OUR CLUB

We are a very friendly group of women who meet on the third Thursday of the month  at 7.30pm in the Church Hall, St Mary and St Leonard Church, Chelmsford.

If you would like to learn more about our organisation – and maybe consider joining us –  come along to one of our meetings and meet everyone; Meeting dates. Do get in touch with us (see above) if you are interested; you would be assured of a very warm welcome.

WHAT THE CHELMSFORD CLUB DOES

We work locally – we lobby and undertake projects that benefit women and girls with organisations such as Chelmsford Women’s Aid (Safer Places). We work regionally – with nine other clubs in the London Anglia Region to support Neat Feet Happy Hands, raising funds for a remarkably simple method that gets rid of jiggers that burrow under the skin of nails on hands and feet. We work nationally – supporting the Purple Teardrop Campaign . We work internationally – fundraising for the Meru Women’s Garden Project, which will support some of the poorest women-led households in Kenya, and is entirely focussed on providing opportunities to women and girls who may never otherwise be given the chance to earn an income, and gives them status within their community.

If you would like more information on our club and work, get in touch by email sichelmsford@gmail.com . We’d love to hear from you!

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