{"id":4987,"date":"2025-05-08T17:36:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:38:04","slug":"may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/2025\/05\/08\/may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4980\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0152-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0152-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0152.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At our club meeting on Wednesday 7th May we welcomed Gilly Halcrow from the Woodland Trust. (Apologies for the photo Gilly!) She gave us a fascinating talk about the Trust andsome historical facts about trees that few of us knew.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It takes 40 years for an oak tree to produce it\u2019s first acorn.<\/p>\n<p>It took 600 oak trees to build the Mary Rose.<\/p>\n<p>There are temperate rainforests in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1987 Great Storm we lost 15 million trees.<\/p>\n<p>in the last 45 years 43 million trees have been planted in the UK<\/p>\n<p>The oldest tree in the UK is the Fortingall Yew in Perthshire, Scotland which is at least 2,000- 3,000 years old and may even be as much as 5,000years<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/48a14e6e-a5b2-4224-8ba9-89d72e434d3e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4982\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/48a14e6e-a5b2-4224-8ba9-89d72e434d3e-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/48a14e6e-a5b2-4224-8ba9-89d72e434d3e-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/48a14e6e-a5b2-4224-8ba9-89d72e434d3e.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4985\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0137-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0137-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0137.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4983\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0139-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0139-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/east-grinstead\/files\/2025\/05\/IMG_0139.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday 5th May Jane, Helen and Gill ran a Soroptimist\u2019s stall at East Grinstead\u2019s annual Mayfair and were joined during\u00a0the day w by several other Soroptimists. We spoke to several people about the Soroptimists and hope that we might have attracted some new members. Helen displayed a range of beautifully crafted goods that she had made, and her famous fudge, and raised over \u00a370. She also enjoyed meeting many children ( and now adults) who she had looked after as a child minder during the past 30 plus years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our club meeting on Wednesday 7th May we welcomed Gilly Halcrow from the Woodland&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":4982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4987","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>May 2025 | News | Blog | Events | SI East Grinstead<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI East Grinstead : Blog &amp; News : May 2025 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI East Grinstead . 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