Our Next Meeting
We are introducing some social meetings to help build on our friendships and enable us to generate ideas and them off each other in a more social environment. Come and join our Zoom Treasure Hunt on March 23rd at 7pm!
We are introducing some social meetings to help build on our friendships and enable us to generate ideas and them off each other in a more social environment. Come and join our Zoom Treasure Hunt on March 23rd at 7pm!
S I Derby have been busy making bundles to help new mums who are being supported by the Derby Community Parenting Project https://www.ripplez.co.uk/Pages/Category/pregnant-25-and-under
At our Zoom October 2020 meeting our speaker was Mary Storrie from the Rosie – May Foundation. Mary told us about the history of the foundation and the work they are doing with girls and women in Sri Lanka. The next morning we learnt that Mary was the East Midlands nominee for the Pride of Britain award; a very inspiring woman and SI Derby hope to help with fundraising for the pink tuk tuks which the Foundation buy and renovate and then they train sri lankan women to drive the pink tuk tuks.
Due to Coronavirus our meetings are currently being held via Zoom. Our next business meeting is on Thursday 1st April 2021 at 7pm. We are introducing some more social meetings, which will be via Zoom until we can actually meet again in the future. The first of these social meetings will be on Tuesday March 23rd at 7pm. We will be holding a Zoom treasure hunt! If you would like to come and join us, please contact us at: soropsderby@gmail.com
A tombola at Carsington Water on Sunday 28th April, 2019 raised 108GBP for Toilet Twinning. Although it seemed quiet for a Sunday the tombola attracted the children! We gave out several leaflets on Toilet Twinning and as usual had to explain who the Soroptimists are.
At our AGM on April 4th 2019 we were very pleased to welcome Frances Rothwell as our new president.Frances made the following statement: As president I have put together a programme of events for the coming year. My theme is ‘Women’s Lives’ and I hope that this will be stimulating and informative and I am pleased to have a good selection of speakers from various fields. I have also tried to incorporate regular opportunities for social events as I think that this is an important part of any club and helps to reinforce friendships and retain members. Rather than having large fundraisers I have opted for smaller events but again regularly throughout the year so that members can have the opportunity of enjoying at least some of them. I also hope that events can be used to raise our profile within the community and possibly
Nine members of SI Derby visited the Mayor and Lady Mayoress at the Mayor’s Parlour to invite them to support our efforts to make Derby a Toilet Twinned City. We were very pleased that they agreed to our request. We are working with https//www.toilettwinning.org to achieve our aim. If you would like your business, school or other organisation to be part of making Derby a Toilet Twinned City, at a cost of £60, please contact us.