It was announced at the South Lancashire regional meeting on September 28th that SI Manchester have been awarded this year’s Regional Programme Action prize for our Freedom to Choose  (F2C) project . This was a conference for year 9 students to raise awareness of the issues surrounding  forced marriage. Margaret Molyneux, Regional Programme Action Chair, said ‘This project tackled a difficult subject and fulfilled our federation’s mandate of ‘Educate to Lead’. I was also impressed by the number of partner organisation’s SI Manchester worked with on it. The following day, President Susan and Sameem Ali were presented with the trophy at the Regional New Members and Awards lunch by International President Ann Garvie