Entertainment Dutch style at the 90th Celebrations
Marking 90 years of Soroptimism of SI Union of the Netherlands, Suriname and Curacao
President Anita, Georgie, Tricia and Elaine received a very warm welcome from our Dutch Friendship Link club, SI Arnhem Oost, and our joint German Friendship Link club, SI Remscheid. The theme of the conference was ‘Empowerment’ and they attended interesting workshops, including one on mentoring.
UN World Peace Day
On United Nations International day of Peace, 21st September, Club members joined with children from St Augustine’s Primary School and lit a candle for peace around the world. Here you can see us with some of the prayers for peace that the children wrote on
World Literacy Day 8th September
“On Saturday 8 September, SI Kenilworth & District Soroptimists in conjunction with Kenilworth Books had a stall in Talisman Square where free books were given to children and families. The children and passers by were surprised that the books were gratis, and some wanted to
Housing Benefit for Refuges
We were delighted to hear the following news from Refuge – an organisation we support:- The government has decided to continue to provide housing benefit for supported housing including refuges. You might find the links below interesting. This is a huge relief to us all
Our very own National Treasure celebrated her 80th birthday
We were delighted to join in with a toast to Georgie, who had chose to have her special birthday meal with us at our July dinner meeting. This was so typical of Georgie and demonstrates her dedication and commitment to Soroptimism and our club. She
Food for thought – Mary’s Meals
Our guest speaker, Sue Nightingale, became a volunteer for the charity Mary’s Meals following a two week work experience using her skills as a nurse in Kenya. There she saw the impact that the simple provision of one meal a day made to impoverished
Bluebell Birth Unit
The Bluebell Centre is the new birthing unit at Warwick Hospital – we gave a donation of £225 from the money raised by providing teas and coffees at the flu clinics at Bertie Road Medical Centre last year. One of our members represented club
Literary event – Joyce’s War
Rhiannon Evans gave us an amazing talks about how she found her mother’s war journals and turned them into a book. Her mother Joyce Ffoulkes Parry was a Queen Alexandria nurse during WW2 and travelled via ship to Africa, the Middle East and India to
Fantastic news from Malawi
We’re thrilled to hear that Charity, a nurse we’ve sponsored in Malawi has now graduated. To read more about this project, please look in our Programme Action section