Alan Titchmarsh eat your heart out! A team of us set to and gave Joan a hand to get her garden ready for the summer. Unfortunately we forgot to take a before picture! We’ll be back again soon with more plants for her borders and some annuals from our stall at the Lions Grand Show.
Inside the Warwick University rape chat scandal This makes such distressing and depressing reading. One that supposedly educated and intelligent young men took part in this, the second the lack of meaningful response from such a prestigious university local to our Club
We were delighted to welcome Ian Holland, Senior Consultant to the United Nations, and his wife Samira to our dinner meeting this month. Ian has lived and worked all over the world, often in dangerous countries and indeed had only arrived just back from Jakarta, Indonesia, where he’d had to leave slightly earlier than planned due to the uprisings there due to the elections. Any jet lag didn’t show and he gave us a very informative talk about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Like all good speakers, this wasn’t a dry presentation on the 17 Goals, but made lively and interactive by Club members joining in playing SDG bingo! (Possibly a first for Club, bring prizes added to the competitive spirit and fun!!). Ian gave us an update on the original 8 Goals 2000-2015 and what has been achieved. And
This year’s emphasis is on body image – find out more here How does body image affect mental health? Having body image concerns is a relatively common experience and is not a mental health problem in and of itself; however, it can be a risk factor for mental health problems. Research has found that higher body dissatisfaction is associated with a poorer quality of life, psychological distress and the risk of unhealthy eating behaviours and eating disorders. Higher body dissatisfaction is associated with a poorer quality of life, psychological distress and the risk of unhealthy eating behaviours and eating disorders.
On Friday President Sandra and Club members were delighted to enjoy the company of our MP, the Rt Hon Jeremy Wright QC, Town Mayor of Kenilworth Mike Hitchins and many friends from other voluntary organisations in Kenilworth to celebrate our 50th birthday. We were also pleased that Isobel Smith, President Elect of Soroptimists International Great Britain and Ireland, and Jan Hemlin, President of Midland Arden Region Soroptimists were able to join us. As we are not a large fund raising organisation, we were especially grateful to Gordon Henderson, President of Kenilworth Lions, for presenting us with a cheque for £1000 from their Dream Scheme. The money will be put towards our ‘wellbeing’ fund for the local women’s refuge, enabling children to have some our of school activities such as swimming and music lessons, new school uniform, and perhaps some well deserved pamper sessions for
We had a very happy AGM this year, as newly installed President Sandra had the happy task of giving out many long service membership certificates, and inducting Marion, our latest member. (Cloud, Marion’s assistance dog has become very popular with members!)
We had a great time supporting our local WaterAid group at their quiz night. Although we managed to provide two teams, we didn’t win but a fun time was had by all
Working with Days For Girls. We had a brilliant day helping make re-usable sanitary pads and pack up bags containing all the necessary bits to keep women and girls clean and healthy in Malawi. For us these are simply basics but for the recipients they are highly valued and considered a luxury.
According to Wikipedia, the following famous ladies are linked to Kenilworth and District. They include our very own Club member Professor Rebecca Probert! Rebecca Probert (born 1973) legal historian and expert on marriage law. lived in Kenilworth with her travel writer husband Liam D’Arcy-Brown Anna Russell (1807–1876), botanist, lived in Kenilworth.[59] Isabel, Lady Burton (née Arundell, 1831–1896), religious writer and wife of the scholar Richard Francis Burton, was born in Kenilworth.[61] Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913) was one half of Michael Field, known as a poet, dramatist and diarist. Julia Slingo (born 1950), climate scientist and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, was born in Kenilworth.[70] [72]Sarah-Jane Perry (born 1990), professional international squash player, was educated at Kenilworth School.[74]
