The Audrey Jones Soroptimist Student Journalist Award 2023   On Thursday July 13th Karen and I were welcomed at Nottingham Trent University into an Oscars style award session; lots of broadcasting journalism awards were given with speeches and snippets of the top few nominations each time. Our winner was Kate Strong with “Bonded by a Stitch”. Kate was lovely, so thrilled and friendly. She was happy for us to put the film or whatever on our website and Facebook. She put it on YouTube but they took it down straight away because it has images of babies on it. She will be happy to speak to the club but it may have to be on Zoom as she is hoping for a job at GMTV in London. Sue Warriner

Sat 3rd Dec Christmas Lunch, Cross Keys, Epperstone – bookings to Viv Pearson Mon 5th Dec Speaker: The Family Court : an insider’s view, Jane George, retired Family Court Judge; Club Business Chair : Helen Spiby Mon 19th Dec Christmas Celebration : flower arrangement demo; quiz; bring and share finger food Chair : Viv Pearson 2023 Mon 16th Jan Programme Action Planning; Club Business Chairs : Mary Drake/Sue Warriner Mon 6th Feb Discussion of subscription; reflective review and planning club programme Chair: Chairs Ann Collin and Bryony Watson Mon 20th Feb Speaker : Jill Godfrey, Children’s Worker, Umuada Refuge; Club Business Chair: Barbara Hillier Sat 4th March Region Meeting Mon 6th March Speaker : Harriette Joseph, winner 2022 Journalism Award; Club Business Chair : Clare Copping March Anniversary Meal/Celebration/Outing (SI Nottingham chartered 16th March 1936) Mon 20th March Speaker : Heidi Shewell-Cooper (Citizens UK Nottingham)

Club programme 2020-2021 Club events between now and end of April 2021, the AGM

Members of SI Nottingham celebrated International Women’s Day 2019 with our friends at the local charity WeRhere.  WeRhere support children, young people, their families and carers who have experienced significant traumatic life events such as domestic violence, grief, loss and bereavement. Access to therapeutic support makes a significant difference to the sense of emotional well-being experienced after such life impacting events. Women’s empowerment was celebrated with poetry, readings, and choral music.     

ALL TIED UP Here are just a few of men’s ties collected in one evening by Nottingham Soroptimists. These will be forwarded to the Purple Community Fund (www.p-c-f.org), based in Southampton. The PCF livelihood programmes provide women with sustainable incomes by training them how to make beautiful upcycled products and the opportunity to start their own business. In this case, ties are used to make items such as tote bags and mobile phone cases. The families they work with want to earn a decent income to leave the slums and support their children. The PCF work in particular in the Philippines, where these women acquiring these skills are less likely to be the victim of human trafficking.

PICTURE PERFECT: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE IMAGE As part of her final year project, Nottingham Trent Broadcast Journalism graduate Jorjah Langthorp investigated media pressure on young women and their self-image in her project: Picture Perfect: the truth behind the images. On her choice of topic Jorjah said “I look at how my 13 year old younger sister reacts to social media, as compared to myself not too long ago.  The greater pressure is worrying Now the work has been selected by the members of Soroptimist International of Nottingham as their top piece of journalism created by students at the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism at Nottingham Trent University. This is the fifth year SI of Nottingham has awarded a prize to a student journalist for a 3rd year project raising awareness of women’s issues in the media. This adds to the Soroptimist’s goal of enabling

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