Great news from our Friendship Club SI Blantyre about the knitting club we have sponsored through Friends of Sick Children in Malawi Dear Sharon thanks for the update, i met with Alexis and her husband here in Blantyre and together with Alexis we went to Queens
The stories behind the artwork for this project Birmingham New Street is to host a unique art installation which celebrates 100 years since women first got the right to vote. The ‘Face of Suffrage’ artwork will be a floor-based, 200 metre-square photo mosaic consisting
At our business meeting this month, Gill B gave a short talk about the work of MIND with young people. A special MIND advisor is working with schools in Warwickshire to support youngsters with mental health issues. We will be hearing from her in the
indonesian coffee morning 7.10.18 Club members responded magnificently to the call from Tricia to support a coffee morning at Trish’s to raise some urgent funds to help the survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in the Phillipines. With only a few days notice, over £130
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.
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
“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
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
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
