Soroptimists in Action When members join their local Club, they meet like-minded women, have fun and work on projects that help improve the lives of women and girls locally, nationally and internationally. These are the charities/projects which we currently support: The three SIGBI charities- Diamond Education Grant Benevolent Fund Emergency Relief Fund Aberconwy Domestic Abuse Service Conwy Clothing Bank Women for Women International Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline- helping people of Ukraine Tenovus Royal British Legion poppy fund Lend with care microloans Salvation Army Tools with a Mission Modern Slavery and anti-trafficking  

Join Us! Membership is open to all women – the only qualification is that you need to believe in what we do! We welcome prospective members to speaker meetings and social events or our membership officer will meet you for an informal chat before making any commitment. Like all clubs or membership organisations, we need to charge a membership fee or subscription to cover running costs. This includes a fee to Soroptimist International Great Britain & Ireland. We try to keep the annual costs as low as possible but and we offer the option of paying by monthly standing order if that is preferable.

Our Club Officers this year are:- Presidents               Four groups of two Presidents who are in post for three months each Secretary                 Rhian Hand Treasurers              Caroline Adams and Kelly Owen Programme Action Officer  Melynda Standring Membership            Sue Cannon-Brock Development           Celia Blomeley Regional Reps          Janet Weatherson & Sandra Snow

Our meetings are held at Holy Trinity Church Hall in the centre of Llandudno on the second and fourth Thursdays in the month. The first meeting in the month is a Business meeting – this is where we work on our Programme Action and progress work on local, national and international good causes. The second meeting is a speaker meeting or an outing or other event may be organised. The speaker meetings cover a wide range of topics of interest to club members. We have some friendship evenings where we invite our friends and also members of other clubs in our area. We have an annual Charter lunch at the beginning of March where members of other clubs and other guests are invited to join us. We also meet for coffee once a month, and have several social events and outings throughout the year including

SI Llandudno & District have four Friendship Links who we keep in touch with, mostly by e-mail. E-cards are sent to the Link Clubs to mark an anniversary or special day in the Soroptimist calendar i.e. an UN Day and club newsletters are exchanged. SI Pendleside, Lancshire- a few members often attend our Charter lunch and one or two of our members sometimes attend theirs. SI Bombay Chembur, India in SIGBI who we contact by occasional Zoom meetings and when possible at SIGBI Conference. SI Belvedere, Vienna, Austria and SI Starnberg-Herrsching, Germany, both in SI Europe. Members of SI Llandudno have visited these European clubs twice; those to SI Belvedere incorporated visiting the Vienna Christmas markets. Members from S.I. Belvedere, S.I. Starnberg-Herrsching and S.I. Pendleside came to our 50th. Charter Celebration.  Members also visited SI Starnberg-Herrsching, to celebrate their Charter Anniversary and at another time the