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Food laded out on a table

Jazz and Pimm’s

What better way to spend one of the last Sunday summer afternoons particularly when the money raised go to the Dianne Oxberry Trust for raising awareness of Ovarian Cancer. The trust gave a presentation at a Regional Meeting explaining that ovarian cancer was difficult to

New Member Elaine is welcomed to the Club

New Member Joins the Club

  Being early December it may have been cold outside but the club members gave Elaine a warm welcome.  President Val, Membership Coordinator Hilary along with Programme Action Coordinator Deirdre joined club members in welcoming Elaine to the club.    

Welcoming 2022

The 2022 New Year celebration saw members meeting for the first time that year. What a pleasure it was seeing old friends, dinning together and of course it would not be a New Year celebration without a quiz and games. A big thanks to Kath
The President talking through the club structure

2022 Member’s Evening

This was a second opportunity to catch up with friends with another face-to-face meeting. Val, the president gave an overview of club structure which was supported by guiding everyone to the different web site associated with the organisation. This was followed by Hillary who gave

Handover of the Regional Presidency

Northwest and The Isle of Man Regional AGM 2021

November saw the 2021 the first face to face meeting for the Northwest region for several month. Previous meeting had been held over Zoom due to the national restriction relating to the Covid pandemic. Lancaster was well represented. One of the items was the hand

2021 Soroptimist International Annual Conference

Once again Covid stopped members traveling to the 2021 annual conference which was due to be held in Belfast. During the year the conference committee had assessed the risk of a face-to-face meeting and taken the difficult decision to hold a virtual conference. To try

20 Years of Story Books

For the past 20 years members of Lancaster Soroptimist club have produced and presented 45 storybooks for local primary schools. Each school receives three consecutive storybooks. The first one was presented to Moorside School in 2002. Unfortunately, the following seventeen are not on record but

Friendship Evening

Our 2021 Friendship Evening was a great success even though the musician was unable to attend due to testing positive for Covid. The highlight of the evening was the welcoming into the Club of Sandra Towers. The photo includes Kath who introduced Sandra to the

White Ribbon Day 2021

White Ribbon Day

Despite the cold and biting wind members of Lancaster Soroptimists, encouraged by Lancaster MP, Cat Smith worked to raise awareness of the issue of violence towards women.