President Sue attended the Saffery Rotary presentation evening last week where she was presented with a cheque for £1000.00 Sue applied for funding  to support our International Women’s Day breakfast 2026  where we will sponsor high school and college students  to attend. She was awarded £1000 from the funds raised by the walkers . Next years walk will be on 6th June 2026 if you would like to take part. #SafferyRotaryWalk

It’s exactly 30 years since I first held the position of President and it’s not a role I had envisaged taking on again. Unfortunately, the time was not right for any other member to take on the role this year so I am happy to stand in and I will do the best I can to run the Club and represent the members, when I can. We are all busy with Programme Action in our own Club that sometimes we forget that we are part of an International organisation with about 66,000 women in 121 countries who are working at a local, national and international level to educate, empower and enable opportunities for women and girls. There are many service Clubs we could join but Soroptimists are unique. Soroptimist International (SI) has General Consultative Status and SIGBI has Special Consultative Status at the Economic and

Emma Sebire   New President’s Address   AGM 23rd April 2024   I feel honoured and lucky to be at the helm of Guernsey Soroptimists for this coming year.   Cathy has, of course, done a fabulous job this last year and I’ m sure you would all like to join me in thanking her for her tireless work and leadership …. we all appreciate it! She surely is a tough act to follow but I will do my best to ensure that Soroptimists International Guernsey continues to thrive and grow this year.   I have been told a number of times that my year as President will go by in a flash! In that time I am hoping to introduce some new initiatives that I hope will be positively received.   I know that many of us (myself included) find change difficult but as George  C

    In February we welcomed two new members. The photos show Shirley introducing Karen and Doreen intoducing Jenny.  

We took part in the Christmas  tree festival in the town church.   The tree was decorated in orange to rasie awareness of our Orange the World campaign. We had our new leaflets available to take away.   We enjoyed  Christmas Dinner with a secret santa, seasonal quizes and some carol singing.    

The Charities Fayre         We had a table at the Charities Fayre and sold Christmas cakes and other seasonal offerings.   Orange the World. The day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – 25th November saw us raisinf awareness fo the need to stop Gender Based Violence. See more information on this by looking under our ongoing projects.

October has been an busy month, We went to Les Cache and harvested the lavender. To read more about this project please look at our page called ongoing projects.