{"id":6106,"date":"2022-02-14T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2022-02-14T12:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:03:13","slug":"presidents-message-number-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/2022\/02\/14\/presidents-message-number-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents Message &#8211; Number 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">To all sister Soroptimists in Northern England<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">By the time that some of you will be reading this, I shall be well on my way to join <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">members of S.I.Cockermouth &amp; District for their 40th Charter Anniversary Lunch. It will be <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">a wonderful occasion to start to resume face-to-face gatherings and I wish them well in <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">their celebrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We start this Newsletter with a report from S.I. Sunderland on their celebrations for <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">National Literacy Day on 8th September. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cInternational Literacy Day has been celebrated each year on 8th September<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6108 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/01-sunderland-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/01-sunderland-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/01-sunderland.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> since 1967. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Part of UNESCO\u2019s Sustainable Goal 4, one of its targets is to ensure all young people <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">achieve literacy and numeracy and that adults, who lack these skills, are given the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">opportunity to acquire them. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Across the world some 775 million people lack minimum literacy skills; one in five adults <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">are still not literate and two-thirds of them are women; 60.7 million children are out-of-school and many more attend irregularly or drop out. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">There is a clear connection between illiteracy and countries in severe poverty, and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">between illiteracy and prejudice against women. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">To mark the day and to celebrate Soroptimist International\u2019s Centenary, S.I. Sunderland <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">collected and donated 100 books each to, Hendon Library run by \u2018Back on the Map\u2019, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Kayll Road Library run by Pallion Action Group and 200 books to Sunderland North <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Community Business Centre to help them start a Community Library in Downhill. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Over 7 million British adults are illiterate. In England 31% of adults don\u2019t read in their <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">spare time. We are pleased to be able to play a small part in ensuring the resources <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">needed to encourage reading are available easily and locally. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We ended the day with a book sale, raffle and literature quiz at our supper evening raising <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a3175 in aid of Sunderland and Durham Royal Society for the Bind. The photograph above <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">shows members browsing the book stall at the supper meeting. Four members <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">entertained us by talking about their favourite book. It was good to meet face-to-face <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">again. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The photograph below shows Bob and Debbie from Pallion Action Group at Kayll Road <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Library receiving their donated books. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We had a lovely festive tea time at S.I.Durham on 12th September and here is their <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">report of their celebrations : <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201c On the 12th of September, Joint Presidents of S.I.Durham, Sue Percival and Geraldine <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Hudson held a Garden Party at Sue\u2019s home. Although the day was rather cold there was a <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">very warm welcome and enough chairs and tables for everyone to be accommodated in <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Sue\u2019s lovely garden. Food had been supplied by members to go with the warming cups of <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">tea or coffee. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Both <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6109 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/02-library-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/02-library-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/02-library.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Immediate Regional Past President Joyce Chesney and Regional President Christine <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">attended and it was lovely to see some of Sue\u2019s neighbours enjoying the afternoon too ! <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Apart from the food there was a Tombola, a book stall, plant stall and part of the 100 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">metres of silver coins collection. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The afternoon was finished off with a piece of a magnificent cake, cut by Regional <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">President Christine and marking 100 years of Soroptimism. The total made was in excess <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">of \u00a3400. This will go with other monies collected to S.I. Durham\u2019s Presidents\u2019 Charity, The <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Rainbow Trust. This Trust is a children\u2019s charity providing emotional and practical support <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. Future monies <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">raised will go to a charity for Endometriosis. \u201c <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Cutting the cake by Regional President Christine with Sue Percival and Geraldine Hudson <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8211; the club\u2019s Joint Presidents and hostesses. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Soroptimist International have asked all clubs to have a CANDLE CEREMONY during <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">the 10 days before the 100th Celebrations Anniversary date of 1st October. The 2021 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">theme for the International Day of Peace is \u201cRecovering better for an equitable and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">sustainable world\u201d. What better wish could we have for our own brilliant future ? We <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">are asked to light four candles ( one for S.I.; one for SIGBI; one for the U.K.; and one for <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">your club).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6110 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/03-durham-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/03-durham-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/03-durham.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">There is more about this ceremony on the SIGBI website and clubs are being ask to share <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">their wishes and pictures through the TEAM in the LAB. Please do use this opportunity to <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">post your wishes and pictures on social media and tell more women about our global <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">organisation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">To start this ceremony using candles, S.I. Middlesbrough have sent me their report on <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">marking the International Day of Peace : <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">S.I. Middlesborough marked the United Nations International Day of Peace on 21st <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">September by coming together at the home of their Treasurer Pam Cooper. The Peace <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Candles were lit and Pam laid on a delicious buffet. They heard from Guest Speaker <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Hamida White, who talked about the situation in Afghanistan. Hamida left Afghanistan in <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">the 1980\u2019s and has made her home in the North East. She currently works for the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Refugee and Asylum Team of the Red Cross in Stockton. She outlined the historic events <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">that have provided the context for the current conflict, beginning with the creation of the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Durand Line in 1893, a border between Afghanistan and Pakistan established by British <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Diplomat Mortimer Durand as a buffer zone between British and Russian interests in the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">region. Hamida spoke movingly of the plight of the Afghan people who have suffered at <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">the hands of successive regimes, imposed as a result of other powerful nations seeking to <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">serve their own interests by trying to appropriate Afghanistan\u2019s mineral resources. When <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">asked about the future, Hamida replied that sadly she holds out little hope, explaining that <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">it had always been her dream to take her own children to Afghanistan one day to show <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">them her roots, but she now believes that this can never happen. Everyone shared her <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">concerns for the future and her fears for those women who will be denied the right to <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">education, independence and political freedom as a result of the Islamic extremism <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">practiced by the Taliban. Hamida\u2019s talk was well received, with members commenting that <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">they had learned so much. The club members pledged to continue playing their small part <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">in making refugees welcome, particularly on this International Day of Peace. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cWalk with Peace and conquer the world with Love\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">S.I.Darlington &amp; District reported in a previous Newsletter on their \u201cGreen T-Shirt\u201d project <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">with Fairtrade. There was a photograph of the back of the T-Shirt with a \u2018wait and see\u2019 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">caption before revealing the front design. Here is the update of the finished result &#8211; and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">very vivid it is too ! <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cDuring the summer, a small work party of Darlington members upcycled a T-Shirt supplied <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">by Fairtrade in time for a special fashion show in Reading at the beginning of the Great Big <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Green Week ( 18th to 25th September ). Following a brain-storming session, they came <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">up with the idea of illustrating the carbon footprint of plastic. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6111 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/04-darlington-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/04-darlington-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/northern-england\/files\/2021\/10\/04-darlington.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>They used lots of small <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">pieces of non-recyclable plastic, which were stitched and glued across a black footprint to <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">spell out CO2 ( the carbon footprint of plastic &#8211; LDPE or PET Polyethylene is about 6Kg <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">CO2 per Kg of plastic.). <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Jean Earle appliqu\u00e9d the SIGBI logo and the name of the club on the back of the T-Shirt <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">and a short video was submitted explaining the aims of Soroptimism and why this design <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">had been chosen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Last Saturday, there was a live-streaming of the show on Facebook, and this is to be <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">followed up with two short films which were professionally shot. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">During the Great Big Green Week, Darlington members have signed a petition supporting <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Fairtrade farmers and workers with a challenge to politicians at COP26 : Be Fair with your <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Climate Promise\u201d. On Saturday 25 September, members are visiting the local recycling <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">plant for a guided tour and hope to get the answers to many questions. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This photograph is of a model wearing S.I. Darlington\u2019s T-Shirt on the live-streaming on <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Facebook of the Green Fashion Show. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Although this Regional Newsletter is not normally about business matters, I have been <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">urged to remind you about registration for our SIGBI Conference and General Meeting on <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">29th to 30th October &#8211; being a virtual presentation from Llandudno. Because of the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">considerable IT\/Database issues at SIGBI, there have been difficulties in delegates being <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">able to register for this Conference. It has been decided NOT to impose a late booking fee <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">and this means that from now until 22nd October, members can register at the Standard <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Rate of \u00a370.00. At present only 14 out of our 246 members in SI Northern England have <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">registered and I have had an appeal from Chair of Conference Anne MacDonald OBE to <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">encourage more of you to attend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">I am assured that there are many changes from last year and the programme details are <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">on the SIGBI web-site and include workshops; Panel session; Exhibition space; twitter <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">wall and a Gala Concert. Our own SINE member Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is a <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Panel Member &#8211; talking about her involvement in the recently enacted Domestic Violence <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">laws. Other sessions might also inspire you to think of new ways of attracting new <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">members. You do not have to sit through all of this virtual Conference in one sitting but <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">can access any session for the following 2 weeks after the event. Also please don\u2019t forget <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">that you can sign up to attend the General Meeting FREE of charge. I hope that within <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">your clubs you are discussing the Resolution that needs a vote from each Club voting <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">delegate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">As the days shorten and the weather turns more Autumnal, I do hope that you all keep <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">well and engaged in your club activities. We are approaching the new Tree Planting <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">season so I look forward to more reports about the range of our Commemorative 100th <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Anniversary activities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The next Regional Newsletter will be on Sunday 10 October. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">In friendship &#8211; your Regional President &#8211; Christine Lumsdon<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all sister Soroptimists in Northern England By the time that some of you will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":6108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Presidents Message - Number 70 | News | Blog | Events | SI Northern England<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Northern England : Blog &amp; News : Presidents Message - Number 70 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Northern England . 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