{"id":5168,"date":"2025-04-20T21:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2025-04-20T21:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:03:54","slug":"president-sues-address-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/2025\/04\/20\/president-sues-address-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"President Sue&#8217;s Address April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/04\/P1020204-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5169\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/04\/P1020204-2-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/04\/P1020204-2-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/guernsey\/files\/2025\/04\/P1020204-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt\u2019s exactly 30 years since I first held the position of President and it\u2019s not a role I had<br \/>\nenvisaged taking on again. Unfortunately, the time was not right for any other member to<br \/>\ntake on the role this year so I am happy to stand in and I will do the best I can to run the<br \/>\nClub and represent the members, when I can. We are all busy with Programme Action in<br \/>\nour own Club that sometimes we forget that we are part of an International organisation with<br \/>\nabout 66,000 women in 121 countries who are working at a local, national and international<br \/>\nlevel to educate, empower and enable opportunities for women and girls.<br \/>\nThere are many service Clubs we could join but Soroptimists are unique. Soroptimist<br \/>\nInternational (SI) has General Consultative Status and SIGBI has Special Consultative<br \/>\nStatus at the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations (UN). This<br \/>\ngives us a voice on important discussion papers and allows us to attend the Commission on<br \/>\nthe Status of Women in New York each March, contributing to the \u201cAgreed Conclusions\u201d.<br \/>\nThis status would not be possible without the fantastic work being done by the Members<br \/>\naround the world.<br \/>\nLast year our President asked us to develop and encourage better communication between<br \/>\nclub members and a more cohesive approach within the Committees. Although we work as<br \/>\nthree Committees\u2026 we are one Club! Each Committee has specific projects or fundraising<br \/>\nthat they organise and lead but when we have events, we need all Club members to<br \/>\nvolunteer to help with them, when they are able to do so.<br \/>\nI couldn\u2019t decide on an individual charity to support this year so have decided to have two<br \/>\ncharities that I am already involved with as a volunteer and they will have an equal share of<br \/>\nany money we raise. These charities are Paws for Support and Grow.<br \/>\nI am looking forward to my year second time around, I would encourage anyone to put<br \/>\nyourself forward to help with the running of your club, there is lots of support on offer and it<br \/>\nreally is a great experience.<br \/>\nThank you all for the support you give to this Club. We achieved a lot during the last 12<br \/>\nmonths, as we have seen in the quarterley Newsletters and we have a lot already planned<br \/>\nfor the next 12 months. We are going to start the year by spending a bit of time reflecting on<br \/>\nwhat we have been doing and whether we can do anything to improve this. Initially, you will<br \/>\ndiscuss this in your committees and then we can compare thoughts in the May Business<br \/>\nMeeting. If you have any ideas, please don\u2019t be afraid to share them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s exactly 30 years since I first held the position of President and it\u2019s not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>President Sue&#039;s Address April 2025 | News | Blog | Events | SI Guernsey<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Guernsey : Blog &amp; News : President Sue&#039;s Address April 2025 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Guernsey . 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