Club Charter Dinner  (1948 - 2026) We had a really successful Charter Dinner this year. We celebrated our 78th Charter with family and friends. We were really pleased to present our longest serving member Edwina Hayes with a Long Service award for 44 years years of service to Soroptimists and to our club. We were also happy to celebrate the Diamond Wedding Anniversary of our member Sandra and husband Trevor - Huge Congratulations to them both It was a lovely evening at Runcorn Golf Club Thanks to Fairways Bistro for delicious food. A Huge thank you to Larraine for Organising this super event - the last event in our club year 2025/2026 See more photos of the evening below - please click on the image to enlarge

Edwina Hayes - 44 Years of Service At our 78th charter dinner last evening 19th March 2026 the club presented member Edwina Hayes with Soroptimist SIGBI Long Service Award. Edwina has been a member of the club since 1982 and has taken on many roles in that time. Last night, surrounded by her family Edwina received the award for 44 years of Membership to recognise her outstanding Service to Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland and to our Club SI Runcorn, Frodsham & District. Many Congratulations Edwina

Toys for Halton Children in need This is our fift year supporting Halton Family Hubs. Thanks to our member Lesley for leading on this - each year we purchase toys to give to local children. We supply to a need, and this year we were asked to support  young children with toys for the them to open on Christmas Day, the families are also given a food hamper with everything necessary for a good meal on Christmas Day. We were very pleased this year to be able to purchase £500 of beautiful toys for the children. Halton Family Hubs, a Halton Borough Council initiative supports children and young people from birth until they reach the age of 19 (or up to 25 for young people with special educational needs and disabilities). They bring council, health and community services together so that families can access the

Supporting Runcorn and District Food bank Our club supports Runcorn and District Food bank throughout the year with a BIG PUSH at Christmas time. This year we have organised some fabulous Fund raising Events and have been able to donate £500 to the Foodbank as part of our ‘Operation Christmas Appeal’ raising in total £1500 for the food bank this year – We donated £1000 in September. Thank you to everyone who has supported our events. Runcorn & District Food bank The Food bank is part of a national network across the UK run by The Trussell Trust. The foodbank relies on the support of the local community through volunteering, food donations and fundraising. Almost all food is donated by the community through churches, schools, businesses, and supermarket collection days.  Our clients are referred to us by many front-line care agencies, who identify people in

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. It was certainly a good night at Runcorn Golf  Club and thanks to  Fairways Bistro  for a delicious meal - Thanks to Larraine & Sue for organising. It was our Club  Christmas Party, and we certainly  let our hair down with some rather silly but enjoyable games - 'Pass the Parcel', accompanied by the famous poem 'Twas the night before Christmas', instead of music. A Piratical theme to 'Sticky 13's' Bingo game, winning lots of Golden sovereigns  (chocolate coins) as prizes, and of course the usual 'Christmas Trivia Quiz'. We would like to thank all our Supporters - with your help this Christmas we have been able to donate £500 to Runcorn & District Foodbank, $500 was spent on toys for children this Christmas and donated  to Halton Family Hubs, £200 donated to Halton Foundation

Our Christmas Tree supporting local Foodbank Each year St Michael & All Angels Church Runcorn hold a Christmas Tree Festival, and our Soroptimist Club supports the event. This year we were supporting our local Foodbank. Photos show members Pat and Lesley decorating our tree - and the finished tree which stayed in church all week and was seen by many people attending the Festival. With the help of our supporters we have been pleased to donate £1500 to Runcorn & District Foodbank this year. Thank you

Mulled Wine Evening We had great fun at our ‘Mulled Wine and Mince Pie’ evening at the home of member Sandra and her husband Trevor. We were raising funds for our ‘Operation Christmas Appeal’ This is our 5th year running the  ‘Operation Christmas Campaign’ where we have raised £1500 for our chosen charities this year. Halton Foundation Halton Family Hub – Toys for children in need. Runcorn and District Food bank Thanks to Sandra and Trevor for hosting this event and to everyone who has supported our Fundraising Events this year Wishing all our supporters A Happy & Peaceful Christmas  

Soroptimist Runcorn Frodsham & District donate £1000 to Halton Haven Hospice. Soroptimists Runcorn Frodsham & District have been running a ‘Teddy Tombola’ stall at the ‘Festival in the Park’ Frodsham since 2009, raising funds for our local Hospice Halton Haven. The Festival is staged by partners ‘Rotary in Frodsham & Helsby’ as part of the community voluntary sector for the Festival.   Throughout the year all club members collect Teddies and Soft toys for the Teddy Tombola Event, these are washed ready for the stall – pictured here Teddies hanging out to dry. Members of the club man the stall throughout the day.   Children particularly enjoy our stall as 'Every child is a winner"and they certainly come back again each year. Our members say: “the expressions of wonder and love on the children’s faces stay with you as they leave hugging their new friend”

Club Garden Party We held our annual Garden Party - Special thanks to Karen Tong OBE and Ken for hosting this super event, and to Sandra for organising. . It was a beautiful sunny day and we had a really good time - grateful thanks to Ken for spending all morning erecting the Marquee, big enough for us all to sit in comfort, enjoying each other’s company, good food and - the odd glass of wine. We had a barbecue this year which went down really well with everyone. Ken had organised some garden games and we had a lot of fun playing putting, horseshoe pitching (Very difficult) and a great knock out competition of Boules. As always there was a super raffle – we were really pleased to raise funds to help with our project work.