{"id":6299,"date":"2025-11-29T18:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2025-11-29T18:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T16:15:57","slug":"tree-of-hope-planted-at-the-west-end-women-and-girls-community-garden-during-the-16-days-of-action-against-violence-against-women-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/2025\/11\/29\/tree-of-hope-planted-at-the-west-end-women-and-girls-community-garden-during-the-16-days-of-action-against-violence-against-women-and-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree of Hope planted at the West End Women and Girls Community Garden during the 16 days of action against violence against women and girls."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, club members were delighted to be invited to a ceremony at the community garden of one of our long term partners, the West End Women and Girls Centre to celebrate the planting of a Tree of Hope.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/2019\/10\/23\/west-end-women-and-girls-centre\/\">West End Women and Girls Centre<\/a>The tree was one of the 49 saplings distributed around the country to organisations providing services to their local community.\u00a0 The saplings came from\u00a0 the famous Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian&#8217;s Wall which was destroyed by vandals last year.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 tree was planted by Hufty, a long time manager\u00a0 and advocate for\u00a0 the West End Women and Girls Centre,. During her welcome, Hufty made the point that it was being planted during the 16 days of Action against violence against women and girls\u00a0 as a symbol of hope.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/IMG_5810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6301\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/IMG_5810-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/IMG_5810-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/IMG_5810.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, a poem about ending violence against women and girls\u00a0 was distributed to all present by a young girl who is a fifth generation user of the Women and Girls Centre . Please see below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/7bad1fd8-bcc4-411c-9b19-d5d42549adfd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6302 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/7bad1fd8-bcc4-411c-9b19-d5d42549adfd-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/7bad1fd8-bcc4-411c-9b19-d5d42549adfd-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/7bad1fd8-bcc4-411c-9b19-d5d42549adfd.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/e2e28a2d-4232-4a79-9468-a0772c0e9399.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6303 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/e2e28a2d-4232-4a79-9468-a0772c0e9399-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/e2e28a2d-4232-4a79-9468-a0772c0e9399-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/newcastle-upon-tyne\/files\/2025\/11\/e2e28a2d-4232-4a79-9468-a0772c0e9399.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, club members were delighted to be invited to a ceremony at the community garden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":6301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tree of Hope planted at the West End Women and Girls Community Garden during the 16 days of action against violence against women and girls. | News | Blog | Events | SI Newcastle upon Tyne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Newcastle upon Tyne : Blog &amp; News : Tree of Hope planted at the West End Women and Girls Community Garden during the 16 days of action against violence against women and girls. : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Newcastle upon Tyne . 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