{"id":6057,"date":"2025-06-20T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/?p=6057"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:55:17","slug":"a-ukrainian-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/2025\/06\/20\/a-ukrainian-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lunch for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2761615246MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6066\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012634-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012634-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012634.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6064\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012619-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012619-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012619.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2761615246MsoNormal\">One of our members raised over \u00a31,000 for Ukraine at her home in Down Ampney on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2761615246MsoNormal\">On a beautiful summer evening over 30 guests enjoyed a four-course meal of a blend of traditional Ukrainian and English dishes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2761615246MsoNormal\">We started with borsht, dumplings and cabbage rolls with all the trimmings, followed by chicken and beef casseroles served with Ukrainian wines and a range of delicious puddings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2761615246MsoNormal\">The food was prepared by a group of women from all parts of Ukraine who have got to know each other over the past three years though living in Cirencester and surrounding villages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2761615246MsoNormal\">The meal was completed with coffee and a blue and yellow iced Ukrainian Honey Cake donated by the new Phoenix Caf\u00e9 in Cirencester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2761615246MsoNormal\">\u00a0With all else going on in the world we don\u2019t want to forget the people of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6063\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012616-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012616-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012616.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6065\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012631-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012631-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/1000012631.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6070\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/thumbnail-5-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/thumbnail-5-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2025\/06\/thumbnail-5.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 One of our members raised over \u00a31,000 for Ukraine at her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-have-been-up-to"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Lunch for Ukraine | News | Blog | Events | SI Cirencester and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cirencester and District : Blog &amp; News : A Lunch for Ukraine : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cirencester and District . 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