On the 25th January, club members and some soropmisters celebrated Burn’s Night. We had music (bagpipes of course) while the haggis was paraded around the diners before being addressed with great humour by the club secretary. After the traditional meal, there was more entertainment: poetry by
International Women’s Day Thursday 8th March 2018 To celebrate International Women’s Day, SI Kenilworth will be singing for their supper. We will be led in communal singing by Rebecca & Bruce Knight of Natural Voices. If you don’t want to sing, we’d love an audience
We took great delight in welcoming Vonn to our Club, introduced by the inimitable Georgie at our January business meeting!
Thanks to the generosity of the general public who gave us donations for tea and coffee at last year’s Castle Medical Centre flu clinics, we were able to donate £225 towards the new Midwife Led Birthing Unit at Warwick Hospital. Anna Jackson came to tell
Our President organised a Foodbank collection from members in December and says “Thank you Club for all your donations for the Kenilworth Foodbank , loads of treats as well as basics. Much better than a raffle this Christmas 👍 and very gratefully received when they
Kenilworth Soroptimist’s have highlighted the work of the Global Blanket Campaign by creating a series of fabric squares joined together to decorate a Christmas Tree in the annual display of trees in St Nicholas Church, Abbey Fields in Kenilworth. The campaign seeks to raise awareness
SI Kenilworth recently celebrated a fabulous and action packed International Night with a wonderful group of women. We welcomed new member Fran into our Club, celebrated our 7 Friendship links and wore orange as part of the UN Action to End Violence against Women and Girls.
SI Kenilworth and District hosted a quiz evening recently to raise funds for a Women’s Refuge. 26 Teams from local organisations took part, including Ladies Circle, Inner Wheel, Lions, and Abbey Hill URC. The Question Master was Barrie Rogers from Lions, who did a brilliant
A few of us from SI Kenilworth and SI Solihull enjoyed a few hours with Nisha Ghosh the SIGBI Assistant Programme Director (APD) for Violence & Conflict Resolution and a member of SI Pune, India. It was great opportunity to hear about the Programme Action activities
We are happy to report that we raised £224 for the new Birthing Unit at Warwick Hospital from donations received when we provided tea/coffee and biscuits at the Flu Jab Clinics run by the Castle Medical Centre in Kenilworth recently. (and see story below).
