8th June 2013: Regional President Patricia Gatherum invited all fourteen clubs in our area – Northern England – to attend a meeting and devote the afternoon to reviewing the voluntary work and projects we have been tackling as Soroptimists throughout the past 50 years or so.
Middlesbrough Soroptimists meet to consider the SIGBI and Prison Reform Trust report and project to campaign for lower female imprisonment in the UK; supported by a complimentary talk from guest speaker Sara Mirsalehi (first on the right in the following picture) who is a member of the
Pam Cooper, an SI Middlesbrough’s Secretary, is hosting two-course lunch on Saturday 1 June 2013 for current and prospective members. This will be a social event. Any voluntary donations will go to SI Middlesbrough funds. Vegetarian food will be included as well.
SI Middlesbrough is having a meeting on Thursday 16 May at 7:00 p.m. at Bridgeway, Allendale Road, Ormesby, TS7 9LF where there will be a talk on the subject of women’s imprisonment. The speaker is Helen Attwell and there will be a short DVD.
On 27th April 2013, SI Middlesbrough hosted a conference for a morning on “Violence against Women and Girls – Everything you should know”. Speakers included Becky Rogerson for My Sister’s Place (a specialist domestic violence service based locally) who offered an alarming range of statistics:
SI Middlesbrough is hosting a free conference on Violence against Women at The Trinity Centre, North Ormesby, on Saturday 27th April from 9:00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Topics covered include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence. All with an interest in these
Tuesday 2nd April, Easter Tuesday, is the date of a major fundraising event for Barbardo’s North East and to help defray some of the expenses incurred by two of our members attending the UN Convention on the Status of Women in New York recently. The
Here is some information about our recent and planned activities. Over the last year or so we have been raising awareness of Female Genital Mutilation, a barbaric practice that occurs in several countries across the world and that also affects some young girls from our
A warm welcome to Shuntaz, who joined us in January. Shuntaz is a retail manager by profession. She has many skills to bring us and develop, not least creative writing!
Two of our members, Margaret Clark and Wendy Shepherd, represented Soroptimist International at the UN Commission on the Status of Women convention in New York in March. What an honour for them and the club!
