{"id":234,"date":"2016-10-28T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/malta2016\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2016-11-22T14:17:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T13:17:49","slug":"closing-ceremony-and-change-of-insignia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/malta2016\/saturday-12-november-2016\/closing-ceremony-and-change-of-insignia\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Ceremony and Change of Insignia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Malta Conference Change of Insignia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sigbi\/albums\/72157675024445301\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/6\/5459\/30873414191_01fa325141.jpg\" alt=\"Malta Conference Change of Insignia\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0Presidential Address &#8211; President Margaret Emsley<\/h2>\n<p>President Margaret expressed her sense of privilege and the honour of serving as Soroptimist International Great Britain and Irealnd (SIGBI) President.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of her year were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The zip-wire to raise funds for the Diamond Education Grant when she, Ann Garvie (a past Soroptimist International (SI) President) and Margaret Baker (Chief Steward for Malta Conference) raised nearly \u00a33000<\/li>\n<li>Attending CSW60 and the SIA convention<\/li>\n<li>Visited Sierra Leone where girls are asked for sexual favours by teachers in order to pass exams, and met Ebola orphans helped by SI Freetown<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon &#8211; where a penal code was introduced so that perpetrators of violence against women can be prosecuted<\/li>\n<li>Skirting science projects run by several clubs were mentioned and praised. These were of particular interest given the important to President Margaret and her theme of &#8216;Engineering the Future&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>She apologised for being unable to mention everyone but expressed her thanks to the conference committee and all who attended conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/malta2016\/files\/Malta-CoI-Margaret-Emsley.pdf\">See Margaret&#8217;s full presentation<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Change of insignia<\/h2>\n<p>President Margaret handed the insignia to incoming President Ann.<\/p>\n<p>Changes of insignia continued with handovers between Immediate Past President Jenny, President Elect Sue Biggs, Vice-President Sue Williams and new Directors and Members of Federation Management Board (FMB). All were introduced to conference. Regional Presidents then exchanged insignia.<\/p>\n<h2>Inaugural Address &#8211; President Ann Hodgson<\/h2>\n<p>Congratulations to Margaret Emsley and SI Malta for this most enjoyable conference.<\/p>\n<p>The AGM saw the introduction of challenging resolutions but she deemed this important if we are to progress, increase Membership and make the most of our opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Her theme, and challenge, for the next year is &#8216;Step up and lead the Way&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>We need to move forward and double our Membership by 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Programme action is central to our work and to our status at CSW. The theme next year at CSW61 is economic empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>Programme Focus Reports are so important for maintenance of our &#8216;special consultative status&#8217; which enable us to make our voices heard at the United Nations (UN) and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Soroptimists were mentioned favourably at the UKPAC Study Day in July, by the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Kevin Hyland. President Ann would like to see us continue to focus on this.<\/p>\n<p>She praised the women&#8217;s hockey team for winning gold at the Rio Olympics and for giving us an example of how playing as a team brings success.<\/p>\n<p>Next year the conference will be in Cardiff, in the Wales Millennium Centre &#8211; an iconic centre for the performing arts. She wants the conference to have a fresh and different feel and is looking forward to having many soroptimists there.<\/p>\n<p>The SIGBI flag was handed over by Ann Dawson to Helen Murdoch in readiness for the Cardiff Conference.<\/p>\n<h2>Entertainment by Red Electric<\/h2>\n<p>This 5 man band won the Best Band and Best Song categories at the 2014 Malta Music Awards. Theirs is a sound influenced by the bluesy swagger of 70s rock and a more contemporary lilt.<\/p>\n<p>Many danced in the aisles as a rumbustious end to the conference.<\/p>\n<h2>Kay Richmond<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Presidential Address &#8211; President Margaret Emsley President Margaret expressed her sense of privilege and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":201,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Closing Ceremony and Change of Insignia - SIGBI Malta Conference 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/malta2016\/saturday-12-november-2016\/closing-ceremony-and-change-of-insignia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Closing Ceremony and Change of Insignia - SIGBI Malta Conference 2016\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0Presidential Address &#8211; 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