We began the meeting, by agreeing to allocate items for members to be responsible for coordinating the collections of items, for the 25 Christmas Gift Bags.
At a meeting in November, the gift bags will be assembled and arrangements made to deliver them to the Joseph Cowen Healthcare Centre.
Next Cris Young reported back on the collection of sanitary products for the West End Food Bank. She was delighted to show us the 3 large bin bags full of items, approximately 60 in total representing £38.50 out of £100 which the club has allocated to this project. It was a sobering thought when we realised that for the price of a large cup of coffee, we could provide sanitary protection for a woman for a year.
Sheila Manchester from the West End Food Bank will be talking to members later on in the year, as to how we can further help.
The final report on the Courts Observation Project on Domestic Violence (in which a number of club members were involved) will be finalised next week. The front cover will feature the SI logo on the front cover.
We are still waiting to hear from a Newcastle school to work with us on the Meru Garden Photographic Project. However, we do have a prospective judge in waiting, from the Gateshead Camera Club.
We are also waiting for a final report from the Education of a girl in Nepal. We discussed speakers for future club meetings and the club summer outing in August. 2 members are investigating the possibility of a visit to ‘The Great Exhibition of the North 2018’ with the possibility of fish and chips on the Quayside. Watch this space.
The meeting ended with members ‘bagging teddies’ for the Teddies for Tragedies organisation which members of the club have been knitting away. Catherine demonstrated how to produce a drawer string for the bags the teddies are housed in. The teddies are given to children who have experienced trauma in their young lives. Further details can be found at: info@teddiesfortragedies.org.
We began the meeting, by agreeing to allocate items for members to be responsible for coordinating the collections of items, for the 25 Christmas Gift Bags. At a meeting in November, the gift bags will be assembled and arrangements made to deliver them to the Joseph Cowen Healthcare Centre.
Next Chris Young reported back on the collection of sanitary products for the West End Food Bank. She was delighted to show us the 3 large bin bags full of items, approximately 60 in total representing £38.50 out of £100 which the club has allocated to this project. It was a sobering thought when we realised that for the price of a large cup of coffee, we could provide sanitary protection for a woman for a year.
Sheila Manchester from the West End Food Bank will be talking to members later on in the year, as to how we can further help.
The final report on the Courts Observation Project on Domestic Violence (in which a number of club members were involved) will be finalised next week. The front cover will feature the SI logo on the front cover.
We are still waiting to hear from a Newcastle school to work with us on the Meru Garden Photographic Project. However, we do have a prospective judge in waiting, from the Gateshead Camera Club.
We are also waiting for a final report from the Education of a girl in Nepal. We discussed speakers for future club meetings and the club summer outing in August. 2 members are investigating the possibility of a visit to ‘The Great Exhibition of the North 2018’ with the possibility of fish and chips on the Quayside. Watch this space.
The meeting ended with members ‘bagging teddies’ for the Teddies for Tragedies organisation which members of the club have been knitting away. Catherine demonstrated how to produce a drawer string for the bags the teddies are housed in. The teddies are given to children who have experienced trauma in their young lives. Further details can be found at: info@teddiesfortragedies.org.
