{"id":68,"date":"2013-11-30T20:32:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T19:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/presidents-message\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:19:24","slug":"presidents-message","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/presidents-message\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1762275997816{background-image: url(https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2025\/11\/Shirley-for-vision-statement-2025-png.png?id=6788) !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Mission Statement<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Regional President\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> 2025\/2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Shirley Hallam-Gould<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">My mission for Soroptimist<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> International Northern England<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> (SINE)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> is to enable women and girls<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> to live safe,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> healthy lives locally,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> regionally,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> nationally<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> and internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I will strive to do this\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> through the following\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> Soroptimist International <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI) campaigns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cSTOP Violence Against Women (VAW), <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cThe Elimination of Cervical Cancer\u201d,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> as well as<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> \u201cTravel Safely on Public Transport\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> As a Region,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> \u201cTOGETHER WE WILL THRIVE\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> through advocacy, awareness and action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">-0-<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">2024 &#8211; 2025<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The role is to be shared during this year between Martha Dewis and Joyce Chesney<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Martha Dewis starts the new year and will chair the conference in March 2025.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6582\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2024\/11\/Jan-and-Martha-Presidents-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2024\/11\/Jan-and-Martha-Presidents-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2024\/11\/Jan-and-Martha-Presidents.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/>IPP Jan Robinson with President Martha Dews<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">-o-<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator border_width=&#8221;8&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; 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Everyone is this room and, in our clubs, and in your communities. Everywhere: in our community, our region, country, and maybe the world.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">It\u2019s a very lofty idea: some would say unattainable, but I would say: let\u2019s shoot for the moon and even if we miss, we\u2019ll land among the stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This year I aim to challenge everyone &#8211; it\u2019s certainly a challenge for me as I\u2019ve had this role before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I remember the conversation at my club\u2019s 75<sup>th<\/sup> birthday party all too clearly! I thought I was being asked about past Regional Presidents and the order in which they came\u2026. but no\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. less than 18 months later here I am. While, at that time, I did feel as if my arm was twisted up my back, I shall give it my best shot. Things have changed a lot in the intervening 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I also challenge every club. My challenge was for every club to submit a Programme Focus Report Form at least every quarter, whether it be an update on a continuing project, or a brand new one. I\u2019m sorry, but that\u2019s already been usurped by SIGBI as the challenge given at the Conference was for every club to submit one PFRF a month, and with a photograph! Further challenges were also given: make better use of the hub, increase membership numbers by at least one in the coming year to name just two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">So, to my plans for the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I want to look solely at Programme Action. I fully support Shirley\u2019s comments at the September AGM: Programme Action is why we are Soroptimists. It\u2019s our raison d\u2019\u00eatre. The modernisation document, whether we agreed with it or not, clearly stated that while membership numbers were falling, Programme Focus Report Forms were increasing. Let\u2019s just spend a moment remembering those clubs we have lost from our region: Berwick, Gateshead, Blyth, Keswick, and more recently Morpeth: all of these were closed because numbers were falling, and without real consideration of the work those ladies undertook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">In that same modernisation document, there was the suggestion that regions would be disbanded. That will not happen. But that document suggested that a Programme Action Officer would not be a mandatory post, as it is for Clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">You have received the \u2018FAQ sheet this week (commencing 13\/11\/23). This suggests it will answer the questions raised in our responses. There was also an invitation to any one of four webinars\/online meetings to find out more and ask questions. These dates will be circulated with the Action Points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">At times, as we read the modernisation proposals, we might have felt that SIGBI has lost its touch with clubs, but we must not lose ours either as individuals, clubs or as a region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Each one of us <strong><em>can<\/em><\/strong> do something \u2013 no matter how small. I challenge every member of every club to do something within each of the Programme focus areas. It\u2019s not as hard as it seems. We can all recycle in one way or another. I\u2019m sure each one of us could buy an extra tin of beans or tube of toothpaste to donate to a foodbank or a local charity. Buying produce from a local retailer, write a letter to a local paper or MP about a key issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This year, at each meeting there will be a focus on one of the \u2018P\u2019 groups. We will look at People in March, Prosperity at my Conference in June \u2013 I will circulate the date and venue for that shortly as I have meetings about that in the coming weeks. Finally, we will consider Peace in the September meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Today I\u2019ve chosen to look at issues within Planet, as it offers the opportunity to tie up loose ends from President Martha\u2019s year. PA Officer Shirley and I have worked together to prepare the programme for today, and I hope that you will enjoy it and take some ideas away about what you and your clubs can do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I have no intention of \u2018re-inventing the wheel\u2019. Ideas that work in one club may work equally well in another. We should be about sharing, and celebrating what we do in our clubs and as a region. In fact, we\u2019ve already been celebrated: the projects from three clubs were highlighted in a recent webinar, and the activity from a fourth club in this region will be shared at the next UKPAC meeting. Individually those clubs are making a difference. That\u2019s the work of one third of our clubs being shared across the UK. That\u2019s pretty good, in my book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We also need to promote and advertise ourselves more on Social Media. The easiest way to do that is to send photos of activities to Bethan. I challenge myself to send something to Bethan at least once a month. \u2013 I challenge your clubs, not the individuals, to do the same. I\u2019m thinking of a monthly \u201cPresident\u2019s Newsletter\u201d to let you know what I\u2019ve been up to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Essentially, what I want us to be about this year is:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">raising awareness,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">taking action,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">educating ourselves,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">enabling everyone to have better awareness of issues, and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">working to empower ourselves, our community, and our region.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">At the conclusion of Regional business, we have a speaker from Forestry England, Alex MacLennan, who will talk to us about the ways in which that organisation works to protect the environment. We will also find out ways that we can help Forestry England to raise awareness about a number of issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">After Lunch, Claire Rawlinson will talk to us about her recent visit to Nepal. For the rest of the afternoon session, every club has been challenged to be prepared to talk about a Planet initiative past, present, or planned That way, we can share experiences in relation to the Planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Willy Nelson is quoted as saying \u2018<strong><em>I&#8217;ve always believed that the most important people on the planet are the ones who plant the seeds and care for the soil where they grow\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This year, I\u2019d like us to be the people who are planting the seeds.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1701954896272{background-image: url(https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2023\/12\/President-Jan.jpg?id=6500) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;1000px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1650819152707{background-image: url(https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2022\/04\/Small-Change-of-Insignia-2021.jpg?id=6253) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;600&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;600&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1620568881818{background-image: url(https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/05\/conference-Christine-rotated.jpeg?id=5906) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; align=&#8221;text-left&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1620568776453{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">3rd October 1921<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> is a date that we will certainly remember<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">and CELEBRATE now we have reached our Century in 2021.\u00a0 The beginning a hundred years ago,\u00a0 of our global organisation that has achieved so much to raise awareness of the challenges\u00a0 faced by women and girls,\u00a0 wherever in the world that they might live.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Our Federation President Johanna Raffan has the strap line of \u201cBelieve to Achieve\u201d\u00a0 and this has certainly been very appropriate through this year of abnormal and changed daily life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Many of us have learnt new skills,\u00a0 faced unknown and often lonely situations and yet have continued to think of those less fortunate in our communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">As I look back over the past 14 months of the Pandemic,\u00a0 I have been amazed at the fantastically wide ranging and numerous Programme Action activities that clubs have engaged in.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> I hope that now the health of our country begins to recover, that we will feel able to enjoy ourselves a little more, meet up and socialise cautiously and relax into our Centennial Celebrations.\u00a0 Between now and the end of October I do hope that you will all take time to congratulate yourselves on a past year of intense work and think about yourselves, and your club, and how far you have come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I am sure that the experiences of the past months will form part of your plans for the future.\u00a0 Life will be different for a while to come but our fellowship and purpose remains the same.\u00a0 Please do let me know of how each one of you in S.I. Northern England have celebrated your one hundredth birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Christine Lumsdon\u00a0 :\u00a0 Regional President\u00a0 &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">May 2021<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1587906365247{background-image: url(https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2020\/04\/20190813_143116-e1587903714785.jpg?id=4538) !important;border-radius: 4px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1587906610841{background-image: url(https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2020\/04\/20190813_143116-e1587903714785.jpg?id=4538) !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]I am <strong>Joyce Chesney<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>a member of Soroptimist International,<\/p>\n<p>Stockton-on-Tees<\/p>\n<p>for 43 years and a proud<\/p>\n<p>Soroptimist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I feel very privileged to be<\/p>\n<p><strong>President of Soroptimist <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>International Northern England <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>for 2019\/2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My theme for the year is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>INCLUDE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> INVOLVE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>INSPIRE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EVERY MEMBER MATTERS<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Northern England Region, although it covers a wide geographical area, is not large in numbers but big on action and has a wealth of experienced Soroptimist members to consult.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Programme work which is carried out by our 12 clubs is exceptional and this is what inspires me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am aware that I follow a long line of remarkable women who have occupied this position over 70 years, some of whom are still giving inspiration to us all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I look forward to the next 12 months with enormous anticipation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>I can only do my best.<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1762275997816{background-image: url(https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2025\/11\/Shirley-for-vision-statement-2025-png.png?id=6788) !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text] Mission Statement Regional President\u00a0 2025\/2026 Shirley&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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