Grange-over-Sands Soroptimists are delighted to have won the Darwen Award for our Orange Days project last year. Orange Days? These are the 16 November days Soroptimists dedicate to wearing that cheery colour. No, not just to brighten up the start of winter, but to highlight the grim fact that ever more women are subject to domestic violence. Most recently available statiscts calculate that every ten minutes another girl or woman is killed. And though those figures are global, no country is exempt, it’s all just an appalling matter of degree.
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st year, our own campaign involved bathing local monuments in glorious orange floodlight at night. We tied ribbons on gates to illustrate every donation we collected. And we were grateful and delighted to feature in the local press.
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are absolutely thrilled to have our work recognised, The Darwen Award is given by North Western Soroptimist for the most effective project in our region. The award itself is super-special. Fashioned from the former Chain Of Office of our former Darwin Club’s president, itself depicting industrial scenes, it is a thing of beauty and a real honour to receive.
We are truly touched and honoured to have our campaign rewarded in this way, and we are very aware that many other club sisters ‘oranging’ their part of the world too. But like we said, we wish it wasn’t so bitingly urgent to have Orange Days at all. Because it is, we’ll be campaigning again this year. Like to get involved? CONTACT US