{"id":4988,"date":"2021-02-17T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:08:24","slug":"16-feb-branch-meeting-truly-inspiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/02\/17\/16-feb-branch-meeting-truly-inspiring\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Feb Branch meeting &#8211; Truly inspiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/02\/17\/16-feb-branch-meeting-truly-inspiring\/16-feb-mtg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4989 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/02\/16-Feb-mtg-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/02\/16-Feb-mtg-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/02\/16-Feb-mtg.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We held our branch meeting on 16 February and were very privileged to listen to our speaker, Valerie Williamson, Local British Empire Medal recipient for services to our community and a Paralympian Archer winning silver and bronze medals.\u00a0 She told us about her life, how she was written off at birth and how with the help of wonderful parents, her can do attitude and her motto, which is &#8220;There is no such word as can&#8217;t&#8221; she has made a life for herself and dedicated herself to helping others.\u00a0 Truly a wonderful person to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Valerie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingarchive.org.uk\/content\/news\/local-british-empire-medal-recipient-valerie-williamson-on-film-here\">click here<\/a> which will take you to a film clip on the Living Archive website.<\/p>\n<p>We also were lucky to have Helen Byrne our regional representative along to tell us about the upcoming 13 March virtual event celebrating International Women&#8217;s Day, with speakers Assistant Chief Constable Kerrin Wilson speaking on diversity issues in the Police and Shrabani Basu, author of &#8220;Victoria and Abdul&#8221; speaking about the &#8220;Spy Princess&#8221;.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/2021\/01\/30\/iwd21\/\">Click here<\/a> to learn more about the event and to book a place.\u00a0 Helen very kindly inducted our new member Lois Hembadoon Adura, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/SAVED-GRACE-Paradox-Child-Syndrome\/dp\/B08F6PK2GS\">&#8220;Saved by Grace&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We held our branch meeting on 16 February and were very privileged to listen to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":4989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[115,116,114,113],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-diversity","tag-international-womens-day","tag-paralympian-archer","tag-valerie-williamson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>16 Feb Branch meeting - Truly inspiring | News | Blog | Events | SI Milton Keynes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Milton Keynes : Blog &amp; News : 16 Feb Branch meeting - Truly inspiring : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Milton Keynes . 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