{"id":4588,"date":"2024-02-17T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:23:16","slug":"64th-regional-annual-general-meeting-september-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/2024\/02\/17\/64th-regional-annual-general-meeting-september-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once again the Club has collected much needed Christmas gifts for I Choose Freedom a women\u2019s refuge in Reigate and Crawley Open House, a residential and drop-in centre for the homeless. \u00a0As in previous years members delivered their gifts to a Christmas grotto (above), this time located at President Jane Gri\ufb03ths\u2019 home. \u00a0Having handed over their presents, members enjoyed a time of fellowship with co\ufb00ee, cake and chat.\u00a0 Handmade Christmas goodies provided by one of our members were also on sale raising money for Club charities. \u00a0The colour orange was very evident in the grotto and some members wore orange accessories in support of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.\u00a0 As shown by the number of bags in the accompanying photographs, members have once again been very generous in supporting these two very worthy causes. \u00a0Of course, their needs are ongoing throughout the year and, as part of our Programme Action activities, we are always happy to help them in whatever way we can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG-20231209-WA0005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4594\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG-20231209-WA0005-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG-20231209-WA0005-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG-20231209-WA0005.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the Club has collected much needed Christmas gifts for I Choose Freedom a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":4594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4588","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>December 2023 | News | Blog | Events | SI East Grinstead<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI East Grinstead : Blog &amp; News : December 2023 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI East Grinstead . 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