What we are doing
For 2026-27 the Club will support two charities through service and fundraising. The charities chosen each year can be large or small, local to national to international, and follow the Soroptimist criteria of educate, empower and enable opportunities for women and girls. The charities for 2026-27 are the North West First Responder Group and Lend with Care.
The North West First Responder Group operates in Wirral, Liverpool, Neston, Ellesmere Port, Chester and Carlisle & District supporting vital emergency care and CPR awareness in local communities. The volunteers deliver life-saving care on behalf of North West Ambulance Service. In addition to responding to 999 emergencies they offer free CPR and defibrillator awareness sessions.
Lend with Care is part of Care International UK. It operates in eleven countries to help the poorest people find routes out of poverty. This is achieved by bringing together loans from supporters such as the Club and known as Lendwithcare Angels with low-income entrepreneurs to help them build their businesses and lives.
Friendship Links
SI Heswall currently communicates with 2 Friendship Links, SI Bournemouth and SI Southport. We have been linked with Bournemouth for some years now and often join them on zoom for special meetings and talks. We exchange email communications at special times of the year to offer our thoughts and regularly send our Club Newsletter to keep them abreast of what we are currently participating in.
We have very recently become a Friendship Link with SI Southport which is in the next Region to our own thus enabling us to attend each other’s functions such as Charters, special events and speaker meetings. Some of our members have recently attended SI Southport’s Friendship evening on zoom when we were able to update them on our projects and witness a candle being lit for us.
It is most interesting to observe things we have in common and things we do slightly differently.