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Raising £200 for Princes Trust Brilliant Breakfast Oct 2021 - Women Supporting Women
Brilliant Breakfast – raising funds for The Princes Trust Women Supporting Women Fund

Brilliant Breakfast – raising funds for The Princes Trust Women Supporting Women Fund

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Brilliant Breakfast event to raise funds for The Princes Trust Women Supporting Women Fund About this Event Please join Soroptimist International Milton Keynes on Wednesday 6 Oct 7.30-8.45am at MK Snap,  20 Bourton Low, Walton, Milton Keynes for a Brilliant Breakfast of coffee/tea and pastries that will change lives  by raising funds for young women in the UK who need our support, helping them wake up to a more positive future. Help us reach our target of £200 for The Princes Trust Women Supporting Women Fund Click on the link & make a donation https://princes-trust.enthuse.com/pf/similtonkeynes… About the Brilliant Breakfast The Brilliant Breakfast’s mission is to inspire and invite everyone from all over the UK to get together and host a breakfast to raise money for The Prince’s Trust Women Supporting Women initiative. After a year which has seen young women among the hardest hit by

Classical Musical Concert for Homeless
Classical Music Concert – live orchestra raising funds for MK Homeless

Classical Music Concert – live orchestra raising funds for MK Homeless

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Classical Music Event with live orchestra to raise funds for MK Winter Night Shelter organised by volunteer group SI Milton Keynes About this event Our Music Concert which will take part on Friday 1st October at The Servant King Church at Furzton. It will start at 7.00 pm to give people a chance to get raffle tickets and browse the craft stall. The concert itself will commence at 7.30 pm and contain the following pieces of music. To book tickets please click here to be directed to our eventbrite page Quintet – Beethoven’s 5th Symphony Quartet – Handel – Siciliana from Concerto for Oboe and Strings, Sinfonia from Almira, Gavotte from Ottone Quartet – Mozart – Adagio and Allegro Duet / Quintet – Ibert – Andante – mostly flute and clarinet Quintet – Popular Song – William Walton arranged by Pete Ringrose Quintet – 70s

White Ribbon day 2020
White Ribbon Accreditation being pursued by Bletchley and Fenny Stratford Town Council

White Ribbon Accreditation being pursued by Bletchley and Fenny Stratford Town Council

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Going for White Ribbon Accreditation at Bletchley and Fenny Stratford Town Council Amanda Carter-Philpott, past Chair, member and now a Town Cllr at  Bletchley and Fenny Stratford Town Council is delighted that in mid August, Bletchley and Fenny Stratford Town Council voted unanimously to support my proposal to pursue White Ribbon Accreditation. As a resident who has lived here since 1985, Amanda was horrified to discover Bletchley and Fenny Stratford is one of the most dangerous small towns to live in Buckinghamshire according to crime statistics.  The most common crimes in our community are sexual and violent offences so clearly this is an area in which we need to actively engage to promote a safer environment for all.  Accreditation with White Ribbon will drive social change, strengthen gender equality and stop male violence against women in our community and organisations by training staff to recognise

Mathilda Kessler
Celebrating Invisible Women – August

Celebrating Invisible Women – August

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Matilda Kessler (1919-1990) This strong minded, popular pillar of our community came from a family with a background in law so it is no surprise that Matilda herself had a robust attitude to social and community issues becoming a co- founder of Milton Keynes CAB which was originally set up in Bletchley in 1971. Nor is it any surprise that later on she became a Magistrate on the Fenny Stratford Bench in 1968. This was back in the good old days when there was no Central Milton Keynes Magistrates Court but instead 3 courts covering the whole town. She studied at LSE in the 1930s and during the war years divided her time between supporting the East End evacuation in London and her growing family based in Stoke Hammond. She was also influential in the WRVS. As a new young town with a constant influx

Celebrating invisible MK Women
Celebrating Invisible Women – July

Celebrating Invisible Women – July

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Margaret Durbridge OBE (1911-1999) Margaret Durbridge was born in 1911 in London. Her father was an eminent immunologist in St Mary’s hospital, where she was born. Margaret had an early interest in science and as a young woman she helped her father in his laboratory, and was in the elite science group at her girls’ school.  She practised briefly as a commercial artist but like many women of the time Margaret’s career was cut short when she married. Margaret wanted to contribute to her community. Domestic life on its own frustrated her as it has many women before her and since, and over the years she involved herself extensively in her community in many ways. She believed in the importance of education and she was a strong believer that the environment young people lived in helped them become happy and useful adults. She also began

SI MK Cheque presentation June 21 to MK Community Foundation Womens Fund
Thanking MK Community Foundation on our 6th Charter Anniversary

Thanking MK Community Foundation on our 6th Charter Anniversary

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In 2015 MK Community Foundation made a grant to SI Milton Keynes to help us start up a women’s branch in MK. In June 2021, we are six years old and now a well-established and flourishing group providing significant financial and in-kind support to a range of organisations across MK; including supporting MK ACT, YMCA, MK British Red Cross, Works for Us and the MK Winter Night Shelter. With 15 active members and growing fast. We are now recognised as a progressive branch within the UK and within the global network of soroptimists; SIGBI (Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland) along with the International Federation NGO’s with our work contributing directly to the United Nations Sustainability Goals. Chair of SI Milton Keynes Amanda Carter-Philpott thanked the Community Foundation and said; “It is with absolute pride and pleasure that SI Milton Keynes are now able make

MK Act Join our team of hard working staff
MK Act – Exciting new job opportunities

MK Act – Exciting new job opportunities

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MK ACT is a charity in Milton Keynes which works with over 100 families’ every day to help them move on from fear and abuse. They have been providing safe emergency accommodation in Milton Keynes for people and their children escaping domestic violence for over 45 years. Domestic abuse occurs across society, regardless of age, gender, race, sexuality, wealth, and geography. MK Act offers help to anyone aged 16 years and up within Milton Keynes. MK Act has two new job vacancies available. Service Manager –  to lead the Crisis Intervention Service and our Perpetrator Programme (Fresh Start).  This post will be part of the Senior Management Team working across MK Act to continue to provide a high quality service, ensuring MK Act maintains its Leading Lights and RESPECT accreditations.  This post is to lead, develop and support the Crisis Team and Fresh Start teams so

Aaliyah Aries youth panel member of Dilated Cardiomyopathy panel for young people
Celebrating Invisible Women – June

Celebrating Invisible Women – June

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Hi my name is Aaliyah, I’m in my second year of my health and social care diploma at college.  I plan to attend university and study Psychology. I was diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy in July 2015 when I was 12 years old.  I was also often short of breath and experienced palpitations regularly.  I was taken into hospital where the medical professionals discovered that I was in multiple organ failure and my heart function was below 15%. Although my diagnosis came as a huge shock for me and my family, I feel it has made me the strong and resilient person I am today. I am now at 23% heart function and working well with my cardiologist to manage my condition with medication and my S-ICD (Subcutaneous Implantable Defibrillator).  The following link contains more information about Dilated Cardiomyopathy, click here I have always been creative

Celebrating Invisible Women of MK – May

Celebrating Invisible Women of MK – May

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      Margaret Sale (1932-2020) Born in 1932, Margaret trained as a school teacher in the post-war years and brought up a family with her husband, the late Tony Sale who later led the rebuilding of Colossus the wartime codebreaking machine. Margaret’s interest in Bletchley Park and cryptography was awakened by talking to guests at a 1992 gathering of Bletchley Park veterans when redevelopment of the site seemed imminent. She then became a founding member of the “Saving Bletchley Park” campaign and joined the board of Bletchley Park Trust in 1994, serving for six years. In addition to leading some of the tours, she undertook fundraising, set up lecture series and conferences, and even organised weddings in the mansion. As a founding volunteer and from 2011, a trustee of the National Museum of Computing she was a lead player in saving Bletchley Park and

knitting for Syria
Calling all Knitters – Knit for Syria

Calling all Knitters – Knit for Syria

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Calling all knitters: Hand in Hand For Aid and Development (HiHfAD) are asking knitters to #KnitforSyria, Hand in Hand focus on helping Syrian communities to regain the skills, confidence and dignity to rebuild their own lives. They support families to recover from the disastrous situation in their country, creating opportunities for sustainable long-term livelihoods with a focus on the most vulnerable: including Syria’s children, the disabled, elderly and female-headed households. There are always shortages of warm clothes and that is why they are Calling all Knitters.  See the website link below for more details  – They need Jumpers, Blankets, Scarves, Gloves etc. Post to: Hand in Hand for Aid & Development, 15 Auckland Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham B11 1RH https://hihfad.org/knit-for-syria