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).
Kenilworth SI members enjoyed an evening recently with Karl Curtis, Director of Reserves and Community Engagement from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. We learnt more about how the Trust and its volunteers maintain the areas around Kenilworth, such as Parliament’s Piece, Knowle Hill, Kenilworth Common and the creation of spaces
Please tell us what you know by completing a survey found at www.sigbi.org/ukpac/survey. The survey is completely anonymous and closes on 7th October 2017. The survey will inform the work of the UK Modern Slavery Training Delivery Group which is part of the government’s strategy
President Sharon recently had the honour of representing our Club at the Midland Arden Region Inspirational Woman 2017 award with a 5-minute speech about our young Guider, Catherine Rowe There were six nominees in all from the various Clubs. We were thrilled when the judges
SI Kenilworth was recently asked to provide refreshments for the flu jab clinics being run this Autumn at the Castle Medical Centre in Bertie Road. On our first outing on Saturday morning, we served around 70 cups of tea and coffee and raised over £70
At our September business meeting Gordon Cowie of Friends of Sick Children in Malawi (FOSCiM) came to update us on the work of this charity. One of the nurses we have been supporting through a 4 year BSc degree (Paediatrics and health Care)at Mzuzu University
We had the very happy task of renewing our Friendship link with SI Lower Hutt New Zealand when Elaine Moffatt and her husband Bob stayed with us on their tour of the UK. As ever, we enjoyed ourselves as Elaine told us a little of her
