At the 15th AGM on Wednesday 10th April 2013, Chris Corless reflected on her year as President recalling many of the Clubs successes, particularly with Programme Action, Membership and Fundraising. At the Beginning of Chris’s year the club reviewed its Programme Action Programme to ensure profjects complied with the aims of aducating, empowering and enabling. The result was the submission of 21 Programme Action Forms outlining the service we had provided, either in time given or financial support to our various projects. Membership also increased with no fewer than 9 new members joining the club in 2012-2013. In addition, fundraising, whilst not the main aim of Soroptimism, generated over £7,600 and this enabled us to provide even more financial support to our projects. The main focus of Chris’s year was to organise a Skirting Science day to educate, enable and empower girls. raise their awareness of and change their attitude to Science and Engineering as career choices. It was an ambitious project but was achieved! Everybody involved enjoyed it, the feedback was excellent and the intention is to continue with this in the coming year and attracteven more schools second time round. It was then time for ‘off with the old Chains of Office and on with the new’ as Chris handed over the President’s Chain of Office to President Elect Donna Cope, who will take over as President of the Club for 2013-2014. Donna then handed over her President Elect Chain of Office to Lesley Warfield. Lesley has been a member of the club for 11 years and was President in 2009-2011.
