World Book Day – Thursday March 7th On World Book Day we attended Brigh Beginnings Children’s Centre. Children were able to choose a book to take home thanks to all the donations of books we had collected.  Cathy and Shirley also read stories to the pre-school group and took part in the Library’s STOP DROP and READ which was part of the Year of Reading.             On the Saturday following World Book Day we had an amazing BIG BOOK GIVEAWAY at the St Peter Port Constables Office in Lefebre Street. We had collected a considerable amount of books over the past two years, and the large table enabled books to be displayed easily. About 2000 books were taken home by families who came to visit. If you are reading this and you have books to donate to us please contact

As we start a new year for Soroptimist International Guernsey, it’s good to reflect on the past year.  We have had a fantastic year under Sue’s leadership.  Please join me in thanking her for working tirelessly and leading our Club into the good place we have reached today. What a privilege it is to be in the driving seat of this wonderful Club, with a membership of generous and industrious people. I’m planning to attend the SIGBE Annual Conference in Cardiff at the end of October, and would be pleased if any other members feel able to join me. There will be a couple of differences in the coming year, but most of our activities will generally follow the usual format.  There are two important documents to share with our members at this AGM, they are the membership Code of Conduct and Safeguarding document, which

    This year we combined International Women’s Day with British Science week and managed to secure the first British women astronaut – Helen Sharman, to be our speaker. Her presentation was at our local sixth form centre and took place atthe beginning of the school day, allowing students feom all the island schools to attend. It was an amazing opportunity for students to hear such an insporational and world class speaker. The talk flowed from one topic to another and was accompanied by the most spectacular photos and video’s  from  Helen and NASA, and included a view of Guerney taken from space. Hopefully many of the students present will be inspired to continue their studies of STEM subjects and maybe one of them will walk on Mars!

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.