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AGM 2018

At our recent AGM in April, now Past President Sharon reminded members of all our achievements and activities of the last year with the aid of the wonderful photos taken by Marion. Sharon then presented a badge of office to President Elect Sandra who will

New Member Welcomed

SI Kenilworth welcomed new member Muriel (centre) at our March business meeting last week, and was introduced by Jenny T at her induction. We are an active and lively club, and always pleased to welcome new members.

Public Speaking Competition 2018

Soroptimist International Midland Arden Region held its 16th Public Speaking competition on Saturday 17th March. Eleven inspirational Girls and Boys from non fee paying schools around the Midland Arden Region took part in this annual Competition. 1st Prize was awarded to Sinead McCall from Stratford

International Women’s Day

Kenilworth Soroptimists celebrated International Women’s Day with a sing for your supper event where we were led in communal singing by Rebecca and Bruce Knight of Natural Voices. They began with warm up exercises, went on to simple songs and soon had us singing in

Charity Literary Supper

SI Kenilworth & District cordially invite you to our Charity Literary Supper at the Clarendon Arms, Castle Hill, Kenilworth, on 30th June 2018 at 7pm. The cost is £15 per person, and includes a two course meal. RSVP by 30th April. The charities supported are Women’s

Bring Your Daughter to Dinner

Our February dinner meeting had the theme “Bring your daughter to dinner”. A number of daughters came, plus one granddaughter and one son – who was our speaker for the evening, Tom Hornbrook. After his mother had set the scene by saying a little bit

Funding Changes for Women’s Refuges

Kenilworth Soroptimists are supporting the petition to stop planned changes to women’s refuge funding. It is something we feel strongly about having supporting a local women’s refuge for a number of years now. Further information about the petition, and the opportunity to sign it, can

Kenilworth Community in Action Day

Kenilworth Community In Action Day was held on Saturday 10th February at the Methodist Church, Priory Road. Kenilworth Soroptimists took part in the displays by Kenilworth’s voluntary groups. The general public were admitted intothe afternoon session which also included a guest speaker and talks. One of

Women’s Refuge Talk

We had a speaker from the Warwickshire Women’s Refuge at our February business meeting. It was a good talk with chilling statistics and the situation does not look to get any better for a long long time to come. Happily our very generous minded Club

Our Time Now

Our club is supporting the Fawcett Society #OurTimeNow by tweeting a picture of a clock face on our twitter account on 6th February. The campaign aims to break down barriers to gender equality. To find out more about this gesture of support which is indeed