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Jersey Festival of Words 2025

Jersey Festival of Words 2025

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On Saturday 27th September our members attended the Jersey Festival of Words to listen to Dr Annie Gray talking about her book "The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker" at The Freedom Centre. @soroptimistjsy are proud to sponsor Dr Annie Gray, our fourth year of supporting female authors at the Festival. Dr Annie Gray delivered a fun, interesting and inspiring talk about the High Street through history. She was very complimentary about Jersey’s King Street and covered market. We are indeed very fortunate.
Zumba Glow

Zumba Glow

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We had a fantastic afternoon on Saturday 25 January at Le Rocquier School raising £1,500 which has been shared between Freeda and JAAR. Next year already booked for Saturday 24th January 2026, 2.00-3.30pm – date for your diary! tickets will be available nearer the time through the JAAR website www.jaar.je, look out on social media.

“Inspiring Women of Jersey”: Celebrating the Soroptimist International Jersey’s 70th anniversary

“Inspiring Women of Jersey”: Celebrating the Soroptimist International Jersey’s 70th anniversary

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To celebrate 70 years the Club commissioned local author Penny Byrne to write a first for Jersey – a book solely dedicated to some of the inspiring historical women of our Island. Thanks to sponsorship by Mourant a free creative workshop was held on Saturday 2nd October 2021 in the JCG art department. Local art students aged 14+ had the opportunity to be inspired by artist Eliza Anna Reine and art teacher Jacque Rutter to create an illustration of one of our chosen 16 inspiring local women. We were delighted to welcome twenty-two students on the day from many Island schools. All the artwork from the workshop and submitted online features in the publication. “Inspiring Women of Jersey” was launched on Monday 2 May 2022 to coincide with the opening of the exhibition of student artwork at the Link Gallery by the Jersey Museum. Priced