{"id":8376,"date":"2025-06-06T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:29:24","slug":"dorothy-cartwright-mbe-long-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/2025\/06\/06\/dorothy-cartwright-mbe-long-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Cartwright MBE &#8211; Long Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_2942-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8381\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_2942-1-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_2942-1-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cheshire\/files\/2025\/06\/IMG_2942-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Region President Kathryn presents Long Service Award<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Region President Kathryn was pleased to present Dorothy Cartwright MBE with a long service award of 40 years of service to Soroptimist International<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dorothy Cartwright MBE, know to us all as Dot was a member of SI Ellesmere Port and District for 35 years, and is now an Associate member of our Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dot is very well known to our region\u2019s members as she has always been a regular member at Region Meetings and SIGBI Conferences. She served as Region Rep at Federation for two years and Region Membership O\ufb03cer for 4 years and was Region President 1996-1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2006 Dot was honoured with the MBE for services to the Crown Court, where she spent the majority of her working life. Beginning in the Lord Chancellor\u2019s department, later renamed Her Majesty\u2019s Court Service, she served for thirty years.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Dot on 40 years of dedicated Service to Soroptimist International<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region President Kathryn presents Long Service Award Region President Kathryn was pleased to present Dorothy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":8381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8376","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>Dorothy Cartwright MBE - Long Service Award | News | Blog | Events | SI Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral : Blog &amp; News : Dorothy Cartwright MBE - Long Service Award : 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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