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Soroptimists Birkenhead Chartered 1933

The first Soroptimist Club in the Wirral was formed in 1933 as a daughter club of the Liverpool Soroptimist Club, and was know as North Wirral Soroptimist Club which subsequently became Soroptimist International Birkenhead. It was the 26th Club to be formed in Great Britain and amongst the first to be started after the Federation of Great Britain & Ireland became a separate entity from that of Europe.

Soroptimist International Birkenhead was the earliest club in the Region of Cheshire, North Wales & Wirral be chartered. Sadly there are no photographs to mark the occasion but some excellent recorded history in their archives – please click here for photographed copy of  History of SI Birkenhead