International Women’s Day 2021#ChooseToChallenge Our Soroptimist motto for this year’s International Women’s day is #We Choose To Challenge. Soroptimists around the world have been celebrating International Women’s Day for many years. So it’s been great to hear
February might be the shortest month of the year but we haven’t been short on action! And as another month rolls round during Lockdown 3, we’ve been women of action as usual. Supporting the NSPCC, the NHS and celebrating our connection to Malawi. And not
New Year and a packed business meeting Our first meeting for 2021 was busy in every sense. Not only did we work our way through the President Gill’s agenda for our business over the next few months, we also had a great Zoom turnout from
Christmas with a difference! Who would have thought it back in March that we would be so familiar with Zoom, tiers and social distancing? This year has not been how we ever imagined life would be. Birthdays this year have taken on a new meaning
Red for Remembrance Poppies? Orange for the UN 16 Days of Action? Despite the restrictions due to Covid, we have still managed to take part in Remembrance Day. And of course Orange the World as part of the UN 16 Days of Action. Remembrance Day
By lending with care that’s how! Our October meeting was back to Zoom format – which works really well when you’ve got such an interesting speaker as Sue Tonks. As October is also Friendship month, we were joined by 3 members of our sister Club,
Well thanks to President Gill’s efforts, we’ve certainly done our best 🙂 In fact we’ve managed to meet twice! Picnic time for Soroptimists Ok so we didn’t take our Teddy Bears but we did take our best smiles to a picnic on August Bank Holiday
Despite the restrictions due to Covid 19 we’re most definitely carrying on as women of action! We’ve taken part in a host of activities to educate, enable and empower ourselves and support our local community and generally wave the flag to ‘Stand Up for Women’.
Call your friends in Soroptimists of course! Back in June we got a call from our friend Joan, who lives locally in sheltered accommodation. The planks of her wooden planter looked more like a Jenga® tower with bits sticking out. Was this alright? Probably
By running a quiz on Zoom! The quiz was certainly a fun way to test of our knowledge. We had the advantage of being sent the two quiz picture rounds in advance so had time to think about them. And educate ourselves on rabbits and
