{"id":7216,"date":"2026-09-17T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:00:04","slug":"a-visit-to-our-friendship-link-club-in-itzehoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/2026\/09\/17\/a-visit-to-our-friendship-link-club-in-itzehoe\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit to our friendship link club in Itzehoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Friendship links<\/h4>\n<p>Members Kathy, Linda and Avril recently travelled to Germany to join in the celebrations of Itzehoe Soroptimist club celebrating their 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>When the Itzehoe club was formed in 2006, the town had an active twinning link with Cirencester therefore, it made sense to form a Friendship Link between the two Soroptimist clubs. There has been an active hosting exchange between members since.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to an evening of friendship and entertainment, our German friends organised a weekend of activities \u2026 eating and drinking in a local wine bar, a visit to the church, a tour of the town with the emphasis on important women throughout their history and a visit to an arts centre created in an old cement works.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to hosting our German sisters from Itzehoe for our 80th in two years time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7214\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.35.48-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.35.48-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.35.48.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our towns are twinned<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7215\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.34.17-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.34.17-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.34.17.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Linda, Itzehoe SI president Ulla and Kathy looking at a relief map of the town<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7213\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.36.40-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.36.40-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.36.40.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Itzehoe Soroptimists singing together<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7212\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.38.17-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.38.17-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2026\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-09-16-at-17.38.17.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A trip to the Old Cement Works; the murals reminded us of Bristol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friendship links Members Kathy, Linda and Avril recently travelled to Germany to join in the&#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-7216","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 visit to our friendship link club in Itzehoe | News | Blog | Events | SI Cirencester and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cirencester and District : Blog &amp; News : A visit to our friendship link club in Itzehoe : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cirencester and District . 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