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It told us about their knitting efforts to support the Centenary Trauma Bear Appeal.\u00a0 Some of the Police contacts made were in the Swale area. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So, Medway and Maidstone took up the knitting challenge to get involved.\u00a0 Jane Barnes has made a good start and has knitted 20 trauma bears.\u00a0 Some are even in the Soroptimist colours.\u00a0 The knitting pattern has also been shared with a U3A knitting group.\u00a0 Community knitters from Herne Bay area have made some of the smaller knitted bears.<\/p>\n<p>Jane contacted the Safeguarding Coordinator with Swale Vulnerability Investigating Team.\u00a0 She requested 15 trauma bears and these were safely delivered today (25 August).<\/p>\n<p>We hope these bears will benefit those vulnerable children in the Medway, Swale, and surrounding areas the Police come in contact with.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1629913413598-e6345dbc-8fe6-8&#8243; include=&#8221;5581,5580,5582,5585,5583,5584&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the July edition of SEE News there was a report from Isobel Groves from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":5582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[176,215,12,241],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-medway-and-maidstone-soroptimists","tag-safeguarding","tag-soroptimist","tag-trauma-bear-appeal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists join the Centenary Trauma Bear Challenge | News | Blog | Events | SI Medway and Maidstone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Medway and Maidstone : Blog &amp; News : Medway and Maidstone Soroptimists join the Centenary Trauma Bear Challenge : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Medway and Maidstone . 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