{"id":5308,"date":"2025-09-15T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:26:30","slug":"donation-of-two-sewing-machines-and-bales-of-material-to-suffolk-refugee-supports-sewing-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/2025\/09\/15\/donation-of-two-sewing-machines-and-bales-of-material-to-suffolk-refugee-supports-sewing-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation of Two Sewing Machines and Bales of Material to Suffolk Refugee Support&#8217;s Sewing Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We regularly support women who are being helped by Suffolk Refugee Support (SRS) with an Education Grant to enable them to gain an ESOL qualification that will be accepted by employers in their field.\u00a0 The Sewing Group, attended by many of their clients, is legendry for their amazing skills.\u00a0 Some arrive in the UK with these skills, others are taught by them and improve their sewing skills at monthly meetings.\u00a0 One of the problems is accessing enough sewing machines for them to use and providing materials for them to create bags, furnishings, clothes.\u00a0 Our Soroptimist Club based in Ipswich went to visit the Sewing Group and see what they were doing and became aware of the shortfall of resources.\u00a0 We decided to use some of our funds to purchase 2 new sewing machines and gathered together materials for them to use.\u00a0 Julie, one of our members who is skilled in using both, recently presented the SRS Sewing Group with these and in return we are hoping they will make some Syringe Driver Bags, which we will provide to Ipswich Hospital for use by their cancer patients.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/files\/2025\/09\/Julie-with-SRS-sewing-GroupIMG_4927-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5309\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/files\/2025\/09\/Julie-with-SRS-sewing-GroupIMG_4927-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/files\/2025\/09\/Julie-with-SRS-sewing-GroupIMG_4927-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/files\/2025\/09\/Julie-with-SRS-sewing-GroupIMG_4927-3.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/files\/2025\/09\/Materialos-and-Sewing-machinesIMG_4921-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5310\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/files\/2025\/09\/Materialos-and-Sewing-machinesIMG_4921-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/files\/2025\/09\/Materialos-and-Sewing-machinesIMG_4921-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/ipswich-and-district\/files\/2025\/09\/Materialos-and-Sewing-machinesIMG_4921-1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We regularly support women who are being helped by Suffolk Refugee Support (SRS) with an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news","category-our-projects"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Donation of Two Sewing Machines and Bales of Material to Suffolk Refugee Support&#039;s Sewing Group | News | Blog | Events | SI Ipswich and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Ipswich and District : Blog &amp; News : Donation of Two Sewing Machines and Bales of Material to Suffolk Refugee Support&#039;s Sewing Group : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Ipswich and District . 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