{"id":7322,"date":"2023-03-17T21:59:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/?page_id=7322"},"modified":"2023-03-30T17:49:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:49:34","slug":"celebrating-our-women-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/celebrating-our-women-past-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating our Women- Past and Present!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid element_width=&#8221;3&#8243; gap=&#8221;10&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1680194934287-f568068e-a261-8&#8243; include=&#8221;168,6579,5822,6431&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Our Club has seen some inspirational women over the years. Here are just a few of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Sally Curtis dedicated her year in office\u00a0 as President to raising funds for \u2018Positive Women\u2019, a small charity that works tirelessly to help women in Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland).\u00a0 Sally and the founder of Positive Women, Kathryn Llewelyn, came together at our Frugal Supper in October 2012.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> We raised over \u00a31,000.\u00a0 Sally was also involved in Project Sierra which supported women and children in war torn Sierra Leone. Sally raised money by running a marathon with another Soroptimist, Ruth Healey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">In 2012, Barbara Watts played an important part in the development of a project called My Time for Young Carers and in 2019,\u00a0 a Soroptimist International Southern England (SISE) project known as\u00a0 Volunteering In Pretoria (VIP).\u00a0 The project would later become known as The Barbara Watts VIP project. <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/my-time-for-young-carers-is-3-years-old\/\">My Time for Young Carers <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/2019\/02\/17\/v-i-p-volunteering-in-pretoria\/\">V.I.P 2019 &#8211; Volunteering in Pretoria <\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/barbara-watts\/\">Barbara Watts\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">In 2021, we celebrated an award given to Sarbjit Athwal, founder of True Honour and honorary member of our Club. Sarbjit was one of over 100 Soroptimists who were presented with a Who is She? award in the year that Soroptimism turned 100 years old. <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/2021\/07\/28\/who-is-she-sarbjit-athwal\/\">#Who is she? Sarbjit Athwal<\/a>\u00a0 In 2022, Sarbjit was presented with a Pearl Project Award. <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/2022\/11\/15\/pearl-project-awards-2022\/\">Pearl Project Award<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Hilary Page MBE <\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a0received a Who Is She award? in 2021 and in 2022, she had been a Soroptimist for 50 years. Hilary was International President from 1997-99. She reached her 90th Birthday in June 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/whoisshe-hilary-page-mbe\/\">#WhoIsShe? &#8211; Hilary Page MBE\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/epsom-and-district\/2022\/07\/23\/hilary-page-mbe\/\">Hilary Page MBE\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Photos L to R:\u00a0 Sally Curtis with Positive Women Founder <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Kathryn Llewelyn<\/span>, Barbara Watts,\u00a0 Sally Curtis and Sarbjit Athwal, Hilary Page MBE<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid element_width=&#8221;3&#8243; gap=&#8221;10&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1680194934287-f568068e-a261-8&#8243; include=&#8221;168,6579,5822,6431&#8243;][vc_column_text]Our Club has seen some inspirational women over the years. 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