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SI Nantwich Support St Luke’s Hospice Christmas Tree Festival at St Mary’s Church Nantwich

SI Nantwich Support St Luke’s Hospice Christmas Tree Festival at St Mary’s Church Nantwich

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A Team of Nantwich and District Soroptimists prepared and dressed their Christmas Tree at St Mary’s Nantwich, an event which supports St Luke’s Cheshire Hospice. The colour ORANGE was uniquely chosen to highlight the United Nations campaign for the elimination of violence against women. Not only supporting St Luke’s Hospice but SI Nantwich loudly and clearly call on all citizens and governments to UNiTE to End Violence against Women and girls. At this time the United Nations is running a global campaign to create a safer, equal world. As we approach this time of Christmas Celebration let us show that gender based violence in all its forms is not acceptable. On 30th November at Nantwich Bookshop SI Nantwich in partnership with Her Space will be hosting an Orange Cafe to support the United Nations UNiTE Campaign.            

Kath Lewis Inauguration as new Regional President

Kath Lewis Inauguration as new Regional President

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On Sunday 17th November 2024 Kath Lewis was inaugurated as new Regional President for Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral. Members representing all the Clubs in the Region joined together for a day Conference culminating in the outgoing President Janet Murfin handing the Chain of Office to Kath Lewis. The following members of SI Nantwich were delighted to be able to attend the event on behalf of the Club at the Kinmel Hotel Abergele: Anne. Jill, Sue, Helen. Marion, Lyn, Jacquie and Jean. President Maggie sent her warmest congratulations to Kath on behalf of the Club and wishes her all the best for her year in office.

Preparation for Orange Café event at Nantwich Bookshop

Preparation for Orange Café event at Nantwich Bookshop

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Nantwich and District Soroptimists (SI Nantwich) and Her Space will be hosting an Orange Café event at Nantwich Bookshop on 30th November 2024. This date has been chosen because it is the Saturday nearest the 25th November which is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Orange Café is part of a United Nations campaign to help end violence against women. Our aim is to mobilise people and highlight issues relevant to preventing and ending violence against women and girls. The colour orange has been chosen by the United Nations because it is a bright optimistic colour and has come to represent a future free from violence against women. We are delighted that the Town Council have agreed to light the Civic Hall up in orange during this event and St Mary’s Church are going to create an orange glow through their

Andrew Robson Master Class Bridge Day November 2024

Andrew Robson Master Class Bridge Day November 2024

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SI Nantwich and District held an extremely successful event at Crewe Alexandra Stadium hosted by Andrew Robson OBE, England’s best known bridge player/teacher/writer. The Master Class Bridge Day was held in aid of three Charities ‘Save the Family’, Motherwell and the Local Food Bank. Andrew enthused the participants with his knowledge and insight into the game of Bridge.

Save the Family Christmas Donation

Save the Family Christmas Donation

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President Maggie’s designated charity for 2023 – 2025 is Save the Family, a family support charity based in Chester which offers temporary housing and round-the-clock support to homeless and at-risk families. SI Nantwich was asked to support by providing Christmas Pyjamas for all the children currently at the charity’s residential facility. SI Members have donated 38 pyjamas to Save the Family so that all the youngsters have special festive themed pyjamas for Christmas Day.  

Fuel Poverty Crisis

Fuel Poverty Crisis

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Fuel poverty is becoming a very serious issue as prices rise and poorer families struggle to “heat or feed.” The members of Nantwich & District Soroptimists decided to try and help prevent the loss of heat by providing cuddly hot water bottles and furry blankets to those in need. We supplied 41 blankets and 32 hot water bottles to “Chance Changing Lives” in Crewe, the Foodbank in Nantwich and also the Dementia Thursday Club in Nantwich. They were all very gratefully received.

Family in dire need

Family in dire need

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    “Chance Changing Lives” in Crewe (who are one of the main organisations we try very hard to support) contacted us to ask if we could help one mother and daughter in dire need. They had been abandoned and had absolutely nothing apart from the clothes they stood up in. The girl was aged 12 and her mother a similar slight build so we talked to our grandchildren and children to see who had some clothes to spare? We were thrilled to be swamped with suitable donations. We were able to supply 45 items of clothing including coats, shoes, hoodies, leggings, pyjamas and many more. Michelle from Chance told us that the mother was overcome when she was given the clothes and said that now she felt she would be able to move on and make something of their lives.

£1000 Donation to Community Pantry Supporting Vulnerable Families

£1000 Donation to Community Pantry Supporting Vulnerable Families

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Ten members of the Nantwich club had a very active day at Morrisons store in Crewe where they purchased over £1000 of products to donate to the charity Chance – Changing Lives.The charity has a social supermarket “Community Pantry” which supports 140 local vulnerable families and supplied uswith a list of basic items which are always in demand. It was a major shopping expedition as the Soroptimists had to gather about 70 of each of the basic items and ended up with very full and very unwieldy trolleys. All the goods were loaded in Chance’s van who very gratefully took them away to fill the Pantry’s shelves.It was a real joint project as Morrissons came up trumps by first sorting the items and then giving us a 15% discount. Although we hadn’t been able to do any major fund raising events last year because of