{"id":1796,"date":"2019-03-27T22:41:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T21:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2022-12-07T17:54:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:54:01","slug":"celebrating-international-womens-day-on-fri-8th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/2019\/03\/27\/celebrating-international-womens-day-on-fri-8th-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating International Womens&#8217; Day on Fri 8th March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 160 people attended the IWD event at the Spring Water Restaurant with members, friends and other Soroptimist clubs from Chesterfield, Dukeries, Nottingham, Lichfield, Sheffield and Stratford upon Upon all enjoyed a delicious Chinese meal &#8211; listened to an inspirational speaker Hilary Ratcliffe, OBE highlighting the importance of IWD &amp; Soroptimist&#8217;s objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Generous Raffles prizes donated by members.<\/p>\n<p>Auction items donated by Mansfield Palace Theatre, Mansfield Football Club and Chesterfield Folk Club.<\/p>\n<p>Fair Trade chocolates donated by Tesco Oak Tree Lane.<\/p>\n<p>A grand total of \u00a31,159.00 was raised on the night for President Kam&#8217;s two charities MIND &amp; MERCY MALAYSIA.<\/p>\n<p>A delightful Pres Kam was extremely pleased with the outcome and thanked everyone involved for a successful and enjoyable evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1816\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2019\/03\/67200053-24C6-4A4D-BC43-1F331D1A033D-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1815\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2019\/03\/D2F39F15-E60C-4102-A66F-0A5341496F52-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1814\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2019\/03\/B11C71CD-E927-452A-97C9-0B538717BAB9-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1813\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2019\/03\/537F3160-A4CD-477F-B710-A3A650BF8BD6-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1812\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2019\/03\/105AE41A-D750-447A-B3DE-0EDF54E622D3-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1811\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2019\/03\/6AFBBB97-52FE-4EA6-ADB8-ABBAF9F3671C-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1810\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2019\/03\/85A51A6F-456B-466D-9123-DDF630C56E5C-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1809\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2019\/03\/8A5760FD-CA70-4957-8B14-A21146028655-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1808\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2019\/03\/20064F3E-80A6-40C0-91AD-A0ED8A1A2230-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 160 people attended the IWD event at the Spring Water Restaurant with members, friends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celebrating International Womens&#039; Day on Fri 8th March | News | Blog | Events | SI Mansfield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Mansfield and District : Blog &amp; News : Celebrating International Womens&#039; Day on Fri 8th March : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Mansfield and District . 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