A very full meeting last week with Karen speaking on behalf of Citizen’s Advice. She spoke of the immense need there is for the service and therefore volunteers that can help with all matter of enquiries. The quiz she had prepared for us (that most of us did quite badly on!) was about financial facts and figures about everyday finances and services. Recent member, Jane gave a vote of thanks.
Our second speaker was Cllr Jayne Marks. President Elect Liz had been seated by her at the Lichfield Charter dinner and Jayne was truly amazed at the projects that Soroptimists get involved in. She was keen to come and talk to us about funding streams that exist as our biggest problem seems to be storage. As Adrian Corless had said at the charter, the garage no longer houses a car, but raw materials for the projects and shipments for Africa! We are all giving over some of our living space and a central store would be helpful.
Added to this of course was the normal business agenda and so a very slick meeting chaired by our President to meet our 9.30pm deadline!!
