The new members’ lunch took place at the Faenol Fawr Hotel, Bodelwyddan on the 26th March 2023 in the beautifully oak paneled Tudor Room. It was well attended by 10 new members and their mentors, along with many Region Officers;  31 attended in total.  We had some ‘games’ and some more informative aspects to the afternoon – such as an explanation of how SI is structured, how PA works at all levels and an example of a charity shop pop-up in Holywell. New members were tasked with creating a club project on Bin Twinning and others created a guidance sheet on mentoring new members which will be distributed to Clubs in due course.  The event was greatly successful with a warm atmosphere and gratitude expressed by attendees.  

Barbara Dixon Programme Award Regional President Susan invites all clubs to participate with an entry for the Barbara Dixon Award 2023. It should be a current club project which will demonstrate  the 3 E’s of Education Empowerment and Enabling for women and their communities. The brief is wide to encourage as many clubs as possible to take part and be able to show off the work they do. We  hope that clubs consider an entry and prepare it in good time. Criteria: 1. The project responds to an identified need, local, national or international. 2, There are clear SMART objectives – specific, measurable,achievable, realistic and time related. 3. It demonstrates partnership with other agencies where possible. 4. It demonstrates links to SDGs and 5 P’s. 5. The display will clearly communicate the steps taken to bring the project to fruition. Closing date for entries  is 20

CHAIR OF UKPAC We are very pleased to announce the new Chair of UKPAC (The United Kingdom Programme Action Committee) is Gillie O’Rourke of SI Bebington.  Gillie was formerly the Regional Programme Action Officer. We are very proud of her, and wish her well in her new role Gillie comments on her election to this prestigious position. “I am extremely honoured to have been elected by my peers to the role of Chair of UKPAC.  The role is challenging and wide-ranging covering, as it does, not only working with Regional Programme Action Reps, but also having regular meetings with national partners/organisations as well as the UN and Europe. We are now a completely new team leading United Kingdom Programme Action (starting with our new Programme Director, Lindsey Green). As a new team we are looking at our strategy and extending the work of the current

Region Meeting On Saturday 21 May 2022, the Regional Meeting was held at The Imperial Hotel Llandudno. The theme of the meeting was climate change and the first speaker was James Espley, waste manager of Conwy County Borough Council who explained what happens to our recycling. The second speaker was Clare Nasir, a meteorologist at the BBC who has also been a weather presenter on GMTV. She gave an interesting presentation on how climate change is affecting the weather. The ‘BIG’ raffle at our Regional Conference in February raised £2,175 to be donated to 3 Mental Health charities representing our Region of Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral. Cheques for £725 were presented to each chosen charity by Regional President Yvonne Johns and were very well received by representatives of the three charities: Please click here for photos and report of the day written by Esther Roberts, Region