{"id":6174,"date":"2023-04-15T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T16:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/?p=6174"},"modified":"2023-05-10T17:38:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:38:41","slug":"liz-duckworth-receives-molly-oldham-award-for-outstanding-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/2023\/04\/15\/liz-duckworth-receives-molly-oldham-award-for-outstanding-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Duckworth Receives Molly Oldham Award for Outstanding Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Oldham joined SI Maidstone as a club transfer in September 2005, following a move from Leeds to Maidstone.\u00a0 <!--more-->She had been a Soroptimist since 1951 with the Leeds Club and was one of their most senior members.\u00a0 Molly had been a valued member and SI Leeds had bestowed honorary membership on her in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Within a year or two of Molly joining SI Maidstone she said she wished to donate her president\u2019s badge from SI Leeds to the Club.\u00a0 This led to discussion as to whether a specific use could be made of it and the idea of an annual award for a member\u2019s personal achievement within the Club was borne.\u00a0 It became known as the \u2018<strong>Molly Oldham Award for Outstanding Achievement<\/strong>\u2019 to be presented each year at the AGM, following a secret ballot in which all members could nominate the individual member they felt deserving, or most deserving of the award. This tradition has continued with Maidstone members moving to SI Medway &amp; Maidstone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/05\/Liz-Duckworth-Molly-Oldham-Award.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6175 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/05\/Liz-Duckworth-Molly-Oldham-Award-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/05\/Liz-Duckworth-Molly-Oldham-Award.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/05\/Liz-Duckworth-Molly-Oldham-Award-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/medway-maidstone\/files\/2023\/05\/Liz-Duckworth-Molly-Oldham-Award-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>At our AGM held on 13 April, Regional President Lynne Chiswick presented the Molly Oldham Award for 2022-23\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0to Liz Duckworth. This Award was well deserved and in recognition of Liz\u2019s extensive work in planning and organising our 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary weekend and overseeing Programme Action throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Well done Liz&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Oldham joined SI Maidstone as a club transfer in September 2005, following a move&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":6180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[371,372,77],"class_list":["post-6174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-molly-oldham-award","tag-outstanding-achievement","tag-si-medway-and-maidstone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Liz Duckworth Receives Molly Oldham Award for Outstanding Achievement | News | Blog | Events | SI Medway and Maidstone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Medway and Maidstone : Blog &amp; News : Liz Duckworth Receives Molly Oldham Award for Outstanding Achievement : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Medway and Maidstone . 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