{"id":4581,"date":"2024-02-17T12:25:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:21:20","slug":"welcome-new-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/2024\/02\/17\/welcome-new-members\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: left\"><strong>At East Grinstead\u2019s<\/strong> Club meeting on Wednesday, September 20<sup>th<\/sup>, members were delighted to welcome and induct four new\u00a0 members; Gill Beeney, Aileen Hargreaves, Kate Benstead, and Angela Sharpe, pictured with President Jane Gri\ufb03ths (centre). All of them have attended meetings and functions over the past few months and we are so pleased that they have \u00a0been\u00a0 encouraged to join us. We look forward to working with them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/New-members-sept-2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4579 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/New-members-sept-2023-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On September 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Members gathered at the Holiday Inn, Wrotham, for our 64<sup>th <\/sup>Regional Annual General Meeting. President Lynne welcomed us all to her last Regional Meeting, as her year in o\ufb03ce ends at the London Conference. At the \ufb01nal part of the day, it was time for Annette to announce the \ufb01rst winners of the Grace Onions \u2018Our Planet, Our Future\u2019 Award. \u00a0The very worthy winners chosen were SI East Grinstead who have supported biodiversity and reducing climate change over many years. \u00a0Many members have contributed across a range of positive projects working in partnership with many organisations and which continue to evolve. \u00a0Well done to East Grinstead members<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG-20230925-WA0002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4593\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG-20230925-WA0002-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG-20230925-WA0002-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG-20230925-WA0002.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Magic Breakfast<\/strong>: Susan Berkshire, Mary Swift and host President Jane Gri\ufb03ths served a full breakfast to 20 East Grinstead members, on Sunday, September 17<sup>th<\/sup>, raising \u00a3205 for Magic Breakfast a charity which serves daily breakfasts to all pupils in schools in\u00a0deserving areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/Magic-Breakfast-Sep-2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4580\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/Magic-Breakfast-Sep-2023-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/Magic-Breakfast-Sep-2023-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/Magic-Breakfast-Sep-2023.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At East Grinstead\u2019s Club meeting on Wednesday, September 20th, members were delighted to welcome and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":4579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>September 2023 | News | Blog | Events | SI East Grinstead<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI East Grinstead : Blog &amp; News : September 2023 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI East Grinstead . 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