{"id":5227,"date":"2021-11-01T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T14:05:17","slug":"violet-awards-2021-women-of-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/11\/01\/violet-awards-2021-women-of-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet Awards 2021 &#8220;Women of Action&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Violet Awards 2021 &#8211; &#8220;Women of Action&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/come-and-join-our-friendly-group-in-mk\/violet-awards-winner-and-nominees-030921\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5190\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5190\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/09\/Violet-Awards-Winner-and-nominees-030921-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Violet Awards Winner and nominees 030921\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/09\/Violet-Awards-Winner-and-nominees-030921-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/09\/Violet-Awards-Winner-and-nominees-030921.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/2021\/11\/01\/violet-awards-2021-women-of-action\/violet-awards-winner-ruth-and-sue-wnsmk-030921-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5228\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/11\/Violet-Awards-Winner-Ruth-and-Sue-WNSMK-030921-2-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Violet Awards Winner Ruth and Sue WNSMK \" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/11\/Violet-Awards-Winner-Ruth-and-Sue-WNSMK-030921-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/milton-keynes\/files\/2021\/11\/Violet-Awards-Winner-Ruth-and-Sue-WNSMK-030921-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Milton Keynes Soroptimist\u00a0Club works to support vulnerable women and girls both internationally, nationally and locally.\u00a0 One of the ways we do this is via our links to local charities working directly with vulnerable women in Milton Keynes:<\/p>\n<p>MK Act, MK YMCA, British Red Cross, Winter Night Shelter MK and Works for Us.<\/p>\n<p>Soroptimism is an international movement, which started 100 years ago, is an international women\u2019s voluntary organisation working to improve the lives of women and girls locally, nationally and at an international level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>We are Soroptimists.<\/em><em><br \/>\nWomen inspiring action, transforming lives.<br \/>\nWe are vibrant, dynamic and like-minded women,<br \/>\nWorking on global to local projects that help improve the lives of women and girls.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2021 is our centenary year of celebrations and as part of that Soroptimists International Milton Keynes are piloting an Award dedicated to Violet Richardson Ward, our founder.\u00a0 We wanted to celebrate the work of unsung female heroes in this city by presenting an award to a member of staff or volunteer from our linked charities or friends of Soroptimists who has gone above and beyond their normal roles during this past year when Covid has had such a big impact on how our local charities, their staff and volunteers have had to very quickly adapt and continue to deliver a service for their clients, not only ensuring the safety of their clients but that of their staff and volunteers too. \u00a0These awards are named after Violet Richardson Ward, one of the founding members of the first Soroptimist club back in 1921 in Oakland California.\u00a0 Her life time motto was \u201cIt\u2019s What you do that counts\u201d sound words to live by.\u00a0 And therefore, hence the name Violet Awards for \u201cWomen of Action\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s what you do that counts.<\/p>\n<p>On the 3 September 2021, we held our Violet Awards for \u201cWomen of Action\u201d.\u00a0 Women linked with local front-line charities and groups including The British Red Cross, Works for Us, MK ACT, MK YMCA, The Winter Night Shelter, Woughton Trust &amp; MK Dons SET had been nominated by their mangers and were recognised and celebrated.\u00a0 It was a privilege to say thank you to all of the nominees for their unstinting dedication to the users of their charities. Every nominee received a certificate, flowers and a Violet heart but there had to be one winner.\u00a0 Chief Inspector Kelly Gardner, Deputy Police Commander Thames Valley Police presented overall winner Ruth Legh Smith from Winter Night Shelter with her award for her unselfish devotion.\u00a0 Her story was truly inspiring and we say well done Ruth.<\/p>\n<p>This evening was all about the women working, volunteering for their charities and their stories of devotion and hard work which were told by their managers.\u00a0 It was an inspiring event and it also helped each of the charities to have a good catch up after the lockdown easing.\u00a0 We must never forget all the commitment and hard work carried out by our charities, their volunteers and staff.\u00a0 We thank them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violet Awards 2021 &#8211; &#8220;Women of Action&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Milton Keynes Soroptimist\u00a0Club works to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":638,"featured_media":5228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,247,32,82,251,246,249,245,248,33,250],"class_list":["post-5227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-british-red-cross","tag-local-charities","tag-mk-act","tag-mk-act-womens-refuge","tag-mk-dons-set","tag-mk-ymca","tag-violet-richardson-ward","tag-winter-night-shelter-mk","tag-women-of-action","tag-works-for-us","tag-woughton-trust"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Violet Awards 2021 &quot;Women of Action&quot; | News | Blog | Events | SI Milton Keynes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Milton Keynes : Blog &amp; News : Violet Awards 2021 &quot;Women of Action&quot; : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Milton Keynes . 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