President Stella and members were pleased to welcome Lisa Waters as our speaker in February. Lisa is an Independent Sexual Violence Advisor at St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) where she specialises in caring for young people.
SI Manchester have supported the centre for many years by supplying toiletries and we funded the ‘Luna’ project with monies raised to celebrate our 80th year, but many of our newer members were not familiar with the work carried out there. Lisa gave us an overview of the services offered and an insight into the work done there, especially in her own field of working with children.
A visit to the department will be arranged for members in the near future.
President Stella also had the very pleasing task of welcoming two new members to the club, Elaine Loader and Yvonne Healing.
The photographs show the President with Elaine and her Mentor, Susan Hollick, and Yvonne with her Mentor, Rose Marginson.
