{"id":5615,"date":"2019-09-22T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2020-04-21T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T11:18:33","slug":"region-agm-meeting-21st-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/2019\/09\/22\/region-agm-meeting-21st-september-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Region AGM &amp; Meeting 21st September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>The Meeting opened with President Pam inviting Pearl Roberts (SI Rhyl) to light the Peace candle.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2019\/09\/IMGP2857.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5654\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2019\/09\/IMGP2857-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2019\/09\/IMGP2857-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2019\/09\/IMGP2857.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The theme for this year\u2019s Peace Day \u2013 Climate Action for Peace was then linked in a short presentation to the Region project to re-cycle plastic\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by the Region AGM<\/p>\n<p>The following members were elected to Region roles for the coming year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Region President (shared role) \u2013 Pam CH and Louise Parry<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Region Secretary \u2013 Pat Kerfoot<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Region Treasurer \u2013 Diane Bennett<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Region Membership Officer \u2013 Penny Clarke<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Region Benevolent Officer \u2013 Iris Bateman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Region Ambassador for the Federation Project \u2013 Susan Heywood<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Co-opted to the Region Finance Committee \u2013 Wendy Thompson.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Region Communications Team &#8211; Sue Challoner, Helen Owen, Doreen Jones Caroline Marsh<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the AGM Region Federation Councillor Hilary went through the Resolutions to be debated at Conference and encouraged members to look carefully at them.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately before lunch, the Region delegation to the International Convention between them gave an account of the programme, \u2013 speakers, activities and the fun side of Convention<\/p>\n<p>First timer to an SI Convention Caroline Marsh summed it up in her \u2018takeaways\u2019 from Kuala Lumpa<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The passion and commitment of Soroptimists<\/li>\n<li>Better understanding of the UN and the SDG\u2019s and the 5Ps<\/li>\n<li>Personal courage of women eg Christina Lamb<\/li>\n<li>Friendship and Fun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following lunch, the Region Council meeting took place, and this included presentations from Region Safeguarding Officer Barbara Myers and an introduction to Stage 3 of the SIGBI Growth Plan from Region Development Officer Kath Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Here the Region unanimously supported Hilary Laidler\u2019s Application for Federation Vice President<\/p>\n<p><strong>It was a day full of information and interest with plenty to take back to Clubs<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Meeting opened with President Pam inviting Pearl Roberts (SI Rhyl) to light the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":5654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-region-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Region AGM &amp; Meeting 21st September 2019 | News | Blog | Events | SI Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral : Blog &amp; News : Region AGM &amp; Meeting 21st September 2019 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral . 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