SI Harrogate and District

We did it? Ninety five Toilets Twinned – Flushing away Poverty

Club members celebrated the end of their Toilet Twinning project having twinned a total of 95 toilets in low-income countries across the world. A fantastic achievement as we also celebrate our 90th Charter Year. 95 Toilets Twinned. A fantastic result for our project. Why did

Wetherby Town Toilet Twinning Success

President Val was delighted to present the Mayor of Wetherby, Cllr Neil O’Byrne with the #toilettwinning certificate for Wetherby Town. The event took place at the Council meeting at the Town Hall. Club members Elsie, Hilary and Heather, all from Wetherby as well as representatives

Club welcomes new President Pat Shore MBE and celebrates long service

It was a full house at the Club’s Annual General meeting in April at the Crown Hotel. We were delighted to welcome Soroptimist International of Yorkshire President Jane Glendenning. The AGM captured all the Club activity over the last year and celebrated a very successful

President’s Blog March

President’s Report – March 2023 At last, the days are noticeably longer, and the spring flowers are bringing back colour to the hedgerows and gardens though we had a touch of winter on the 12th when snow fell but thankfully only made a brief appearance.

Forgotten Women – Alderman Mary Fisher MBE JP 1884-1972

On this year’s International Women’s Day the Club celebrated the lives of local Women who were trail blazers. This included our First Club President Dr Kathleen Rutherford and Dr Laura Veale the First Woman from Yorkshire to qualify as a Doctor. We also celebrated the life

President’s Blog February/March

It’s great that our regular meetings have started again. The first meeting in February focused on Programme Action. It was an excellent meeting organised by Club Programme Action Officers’ Christine A and Paula. The PowerPoint presentation really encapsulated all that we do. It is available

The Great Big Green Week

How do we address Climate Change and contribute to #CarbonZero? What is our Parliament doing? These are the questions we posed to Andrew Jones, MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough Club members welcomed Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones to their February meeting. It

Soroptimist’s Stride out to support Trussell Trust Race Against Hunger

President Val and Club members are once against supporting the Trussell Trust Campaign to #StopUKHunger. Please follow the link above to support us. Why? 1 in 4 Children are living in poverty The Trussell Trust Food Banks handed out over 2.1 million Food Parcels in 2021-22 –

Visit to Wetherby Food Bank

So what happens at a Foodbank? President Val with Club members Hilary and Elsie found out when they went to give a cheque for £250 raised from the stall at Wetherby Christmas Market and met with Trustee and Volunteer Jim Tinsley and Manager Debbie Marriott.

President Blog – November

Presidents Report – November/December Where has this year gone? And yet is seems ages ago since we made our first tentative steps back to normality. Last year we met on the 1st of December and awarded the Charity Shop Christmas Window winners at the Crown