As the celebrations were underway in Faversham for the annual hop festival, three members of Medway and Maidstone club, Annette Davies, Jenny Jones and Wanda Wright could be found manning a Bagathon stall.
Six members of SI Medway and Maidstone spent an enjoyable day in August at The Sculpture Park in Farnham Surrey. The trip was organised by Wanda Wright.
The consultation is now live on the Kent & Medway Partnership Domestic Abuse Strategy 2024 – 2029 and will run until 9 October.
The annual BBQ was held as a fundraising event at Carol McKeough’s home on the North Downs in August.
Five Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists attended the Soroptimist International Convention in Dublin.
Angela Howe, Stella Barnes, and Jane Barnes joined with pupils from the Byron Primary Rights Respecting Steering Group on 19 July. The occasion was a celebration of Medway being given the status of becoming a Toilet Twinned Town.
In January, Hayley Heyes, spoke about a Social Change project Byron School had recently started to support the families who were experiencing challenges coping with the cost-of-living crisis.
Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists were not put off by the Yellow Weather warnings on 15 July the SIGBI Day of Action.
Three members from SI Medway and Maidstone with some of the children from Byron Primary School in Gillingham took part in a Coin Challenge in aid of Mary’s Meals on 28 June. The children in each class were asked to collect small change in their Mary’s Meals Money box/ Feeding Mugs. Members also donated their small change and the large white double bed sheet the image was drawn on. This related to the work the Byron children are focusing on this term relating to Article 28 of the UN Rights of the Child about: – ‘Each child should have the right to an education no matter what, regardless of race, gender or disability or whether they are in detention or a refugee.’ During the afternoon each class sent out 3 or 4 representatives with their mug of coins to start filling in the world map
The Soroptimists and a Parent Representative ran the UNICEF Book Sale at the School Fayre on 4 July.
