Two new members were inducted in July, welcome to Sylvia and Heather. SUMMER EVENING OF SONG CONCERT featuring Dilwyn Price’s Cor Alaw and Colwyn Bay Ukulele Band The Concert was a great success and raised over £600 for President Elaine’s charities. We were pleased to welcome Regional President Denny, members from other clubs, friends and prospective new members to our flower-themed Friendship Evening “indoor picnic”.
It is 25 years since the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. In its aftermath, radioactive rain fell on the mountains of North Wales. For this reason, Llandudno Soroptimists are supportive of Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline, which gives a group of children a holiday in North Wales each year. Soroptimists iron and repair clothing, help to buy new shoes for the children and donate items for the children to take home to their families in Belarus and Ukraine, areas which are still badly affected by the nuclear disaster. Here are the children having fun at the annual picnic organised by Llandudno Soroptimists at Old Colwyn Methodist Church.
On a sunny June evening, President Elaine and members visited Ysgol San Sior, a local school which we have been supporting for several years. We enjoyed a power-point presentation and a tour of the school , given by Year 6 pupils and their Head Teacher, Ian Keith Jones. Ysgol San Sior is a church-aided Primary School in Llandudno. The school is proud to fly an ECO award flag and it has won several awards for recycling innovations, including a recent prize of £65,000 worth of Solar panels in a Daily Post/British Gas competition Llandudno Soroptimists have had links with the school for about 5 years now. as part of our joint venture with SI. Rhyl, visiting local schools to promote our project to help “Save the Honey Bee”. When we first visited Ysgol San Sior, it had no bee hives of its own, but now it has seven hives. The Year 6
On Saturday 3rd June, we had an enjoyable day at the Regional Conference held at Theatr Clwyd, Mold. We heard an interesting and inspiring lecture by Dr Fay Short on the “Psychology of Abuse”. This gave us a better understanding of the issues involved when dealing with cases of domestic violence, child abuse , modern day slavery, etc. For fun, members of SI Heswall gave us a demonstration of the use of the items contained in a Story Sack to illustrate a story. The members make all the contents, which are designed to help children in local schools with their reading. SI Llandudno member Eirwen was very lucky to win a beautiful quilt in the raffle organised by Si Ellesmere Port. Here she is with Dot cartwright and Jean Diamond from SI Ellesmere Port, receiving her prize. The quilt was made by a lady
On 25th May we held an open Meeting. inviting friends, colleagues and neighbours to come and find out about Soroptimist International. President Elaine welcomed everyone, Pat Kerfoot gave a presentation on the structure and purpose of Soroptimists, and Barbara showed photographs of our activities last year. Our visitors then joined us in our project groups to chat about our work over a cup of tea.
A twiddle Muff is a double thickness muff with bits and bobs attached inside and out. It is designed to provide a stimulation activity for patients with dementia. Members of our club are busy knitting Twiddle Muffs. They also find time to knit vests for new born babies in Lesotho
Llandudno and District Soroptimists invite you to an open meeting. Come and find out what activities local Soroptimists are planning to make a difference to women locally, nationally and internationally EDUCATE EMPOWER ENABLE Thursday 25TH MAY 2017 AT 7.30 PM. Llanrhos Old School, Conwy Road, Llanrhos, LL30 1RW ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND For further information email llandudnosorops@gmail.com call 07876255035 or just come along on the night Here are some of the things we do:
At the Annual General Meeting on Thursday 13th April, we were pleased to see our new President and President Elect being presented with their chains of office. After the meeting, we adjourned to La Dolce Vita restaurant in Rhos-on-Sea where we enjoyed a sociable meal together.
