{"id":28,"date":"2025-08-21T04:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/news\/news-post-b\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:10:48","slug":"news-post-b","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/news\/news-post-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Dixon Award 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n\n\n\n\n\t<section class=\"cta-outer secondary inline section\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t<div class=\"cta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"cta-inline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cta-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cta-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"cta-title\">Barbara Dixon Award 2026<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cta-summary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At the Regional meeting on Saturday 4th\u00a0July the Club was chosen as the recipient of the Barbara Dixon Award.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nMembers were delighted and passed their thanks to Marian Wade, PAC Officer, who had been instrumental in delivering the County Lines Project, in Crewe, from conception to completion.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe Barbara Dixon Award is the result of a process to identify the best project currently in progress in the SI Cheshire, North Wales and the Wirral Region.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe aim is to recognise, showcase and share good practice by Soroptimist Groups.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe successful project has the potential to be put forward at UK SIGBI national conference.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe Project is:<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nNetworking Support for vulnerable key stage 2 children<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nA County Lines Project to facilitate a multi-agency approach to prevent keystage 2 school children being entrapped into County Lines gangs.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe aim is to bring Authorities, charities and support organisations together to this common goal.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nAs a local Soroptimist club we have for many years undertaken projects to raise awareness of Modern Day Slavery in Crewe and Nantwich.\u00a0 From 2023 our attention was drawn to the fact that children, especially boys, were being groomed to become runners from the age of eleven.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nTalking with local stakeholders it was felt that a meeting of Local Authorities and voluntary organisations about this issue would be useful and allow\u00a0all those attending to network and support each other to protect these children.<br \/>\r\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cta-button-outer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\" primary\">Button<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"template":"","update-type":[4],"topic":[8],"class_list":["post-28","update","type-update","status-publish","hentry","update-type-type-a","topic-8"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/update"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"update-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-type?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/nantwich-and-district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}