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Glenrothes Rock Choir

We were delighted to host a performance by Glenrothes Rock Choir recently. Held at St Bryce Kirk, with its wonderful acoustics, the choir had everyone tapping their toes, clapping their hands and joining in with well kent tunes. The evening raised £1,250 which will be

Feather Finesse

Feather Finesse We had the pleasure of Rosemary and Jim Storm coming to talk to us and to demonstrate Rosemary’s amazing talent of painting on feathers. While Rosemary painted the puffin Jim gave us some fascinating facts about feathers and asked us some tricky questions

70th Anniversary Dinner!

  Jenny with the cake she made displayed on the club’s embroidered table cloth   On Friday 13th October our club held its 70th Anniversary Dinner at the Dean Park Hotel where we hold our club meetings. We had invited our Friendship Link clubs and

Quiz

On 28th September the club held a quiz at Foxtons Bar and Grill in Glenrothes in order to raise funds for Maggie’s Centre. John Goodall, husband of one of the members was the quiz master and devised a quiz which included music and picture questions.

Jamming for Maggie’s!

Member Myra decided that she would like to celebrate the club’s 70th anniversary year by making 70 jars of jam which she would sell to fellow Soroptimists, family and friends. She actually made over 100 jars of raspberry,  strawberry and rhubarb jam as well as

Helen’s 50th!

At the first meeting of the new session, President Sally was delighted to recognise Helen Macdonald who has been a member for 50 years, and presented her with a special Certificate. Helen joined the club in 1973, and over those 50 years she has served

Canadian Sisters

Some members of SI Kirkcaldy met up with Darlene Jamieson and Lia Ashbrook from Canada during the summer. Darlene was on her way from Canada to Dublin for the SI Convention in July. Darlene was involved in the Youth Justice System, and her husband was

Thanks to Siroptomist International, LCU bought materials for the tailoring program for the women group in Vumba village such as Kitengi materials for sewing clothes for sale. LCU also rented a room for the ladies of the tailoring program in Vumba village because they have been having issues during rainy seasons due to the shelter they had built last year to train from.

Leading Change Uganda

  Thanks to Soroptimist International of Kirkcaldy, Leading Change Uganda were able to buy materials for the tailoring program for the women’s group in Vumba village, such as Kitengi materials for sewing clothes for sale. LCU also rented a room for the ladies of the

Educate to Lead Award

Each year, our club gives an Educate to Lead award to a senior girl at one of our four local High Schools. This year it was the turn of Kirkcaldy High School and Morgan Cameron was selected as the recipient. Morgan has become a valued

Visit to Hopetoun House

On Thursday 26 May seven members of SI Kirkcaldy went on the club’s annual outside visit to Hopetoun House, a country house near South Queensferry. The house is one of the finest stately homes in Scotland. The first phase of the house was built between