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<\/p>\nOn May 12th, at an Afternoon Tea awards ceremony held at the Clifton Hotel in Folkestone, we announced the Shepway Inspirational Woman of the Year for 2018.<\/p>\n
Many of our nominees attended with their supporters and nominators, and all proceeds raised from the event will be donated to The Shepway Foodbank.\u00a0 Nominations were received from the public for a Shepway woman that they felt had made a significant difference to either their business, local community or overcome personal circumstances.<\/p>\n
Nominations were received for the following local women:\u00a0Gillian Ayling,\u00a0 Susan Carey, Julie Hanbury. Pam Jones, Paula McCormack,\u00a0 Sarah Noble, Cllr Patricia Rolfe, Kerry Ryan,\u00a0 Jo Shapter, Joanna Strickland, Maureen Walby, Joy White. – Our congratulations go to all of the Nominees!\u00a0 All nominees were awarded a certificate and a pen by Mayor Ann Berry.<\/p>\n
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Highly Commended was given to Jo Shapter<\/strong> for her work with the homeless footcare clinic and the fundraising she does.\u00a0 A really fantastic achievement Jo<\/p>\n We received the following quote from Jo after the event:<\/p>\n I am thrilled to have received this award and truly grateful to everyone who has nominated\u00a0me. As well as their patience and support with allowing me to get the homeless foot clinic underway and helping me with fundraising to make it a continuing event. I was delighted to have so many supporters attend the event with me and feel truly blessed to have such a strong support network within the local community and of course my family and friends.\u00a0 My children are very impressed that Mummy came home with a trophy so everyone is happy!<\/em><\/p>\n Shepway Inspirational Woman of the Year 2018 was announced as………..<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joanna was nominated for setting up the and growing the Folkestone Business Hub to support other small businesses and charities, taking caravans over to home refugees in Calais and being a regular visit to camps with supplies, setting up a catering business\u00a0 and employing young people to run it .\u00a0 Also she is in the process of setting up another Healthy Eating catering business.\u00a0 All of this whilst running her own accountancy business and overcoming personal illness.<\/p>\n Congratulations Joanna, truly inspirational.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0 Our judging panel were impressed by the diversity of what you have achieved.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Watch this space to see how you can nominate for next’s years award.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On May 12th, at an Afternoon Tea awards ceremony held at the Clifton Hotel in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[92,87,94,85,83,86,96,89,93,95,90,91,63,84,27,88],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-cllr-patricia-rolfe","tag-gillian-ayling","tag-jo-shapter","tag-jo-shapter-folkestone","tag-joanna-strickland","tag-joanna-strickland-folkestone","tag-joy-white","tag-julie-hanbury-pam-jones","tag-kerry-ryan","tag-maureen-walby","tag-paula-mccormack","tag-sarah-noble","tag-shepway-women-of-the-year","tag-soroptimist-award-2018","tag-soroptimists-folkestone","tag-susan-carey"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"\/folkestone\/files\/2018\/06\/IMG_1544-300x225.jpg\")
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<\/p>\nJoanna Strickland\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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