Club Charter Dinner  (1948 - 2025) We had a really successful Charter Dinner this year. We celebrated our 77th Charter with family and friends. It was a lovely evening at Runcorn Golf Club Thanks to Fairways Bistro for delicious food. A Huge thank you to Karen and Pat for Organising this super event - the last event in our club year 2024/2025 A toast to our club and to our next year of Service April 2025/2026   See more photos of the evening below - please click on the image to enlarge

Soroptimists Light up the Mersey Gateway Bridge For International Women’s Day this year Larraine spoke to Mersey Gateway with  a request from our Club to light up the bridge in Suffragette colours – green white and purple – to mark International Women’s Day #IWD It was great to see the bridge lit up on March 8th 2025. Next year we will ask Halton Borough Council to light up the Jubilee Bridge in the same colours.

Club Quiz Fundraiser We held our first BIG Fundraiser of the year at Runcorn Golf club and raised over £530 for our project work this year. Please click our  Fundraising Flyer  to read more about our Projects. Thanks to all our Supporters for coming along to this ‘Good Fun Quiz’. Thanks to Simon Chesterson our Amazing Quiz - master and to staff of Runcorn Golf Club for all their help in making this evening so special. Thanks once again to member Karen and Pat for organizing this successful annual event. Congratulations to John & Lesley and their winning Team

Mayor of Halton Charity £500 to The Halton Foundation This Christmas we raised £2000 for our chosen charities. We held a number of Fundraising Events this year for our appeal, and were thrilled to raise £2000. Our  'BINGO NIGHT" was very successful this year - thanks to member Pat for leading on this. We also held a 'Coffee Morning at St Michael's Church' - thanks to member Helen for leading. A very enjoyable 'Mulled wine evening' at the home of our member Sandra and her husband Trevor. A BIG THANK YOU To all our friends and supporters for coming to our events and supporting us throughout the year. Lady Mayoress of Halton The Mayoress of Halton visited our club in October and told us about the Mayor of Halton's chosen charity this year 'The Halton Foundation' - a charity which gives bursaries to young people

Toys for Halton Children in need This is our fourth 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 very young children and babies with toys for the children 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

‘Operation Christmas Appeal’ £500 to Mary’s Meals – Supporting School Feeding Programme in Zambia This year our Appeal has been a huge success and we have raised £2000 for our chosen Christmas Charities. With our Local Fund Raising Events we have raised funds for Local Charities. However Soroptimists work Locally and Globally to improve the lives of women and children. Our own club and member events this year support Mary’s Meals and their School Feeding Programme in Zambia. The £500 we have raised has been match funded and £1000 will go this wonderful small charity Mary’s Meals – School Feeding Programme in Zambia Today in Zambia – 10 years after Mary’s Meals programme began – 400,000 children eat Mary’s Meals every school day. Across the Eastern Province children are coming to school – amid the current catastrophic hunger crisis – because they know they will

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 £2000 for our four chosen charities. 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 need, and give them a voucher that

Wishing all our supporters a Happy & Peaceful Christmas 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 Mary’s Meals – a school meals feeding programme in Zambia.We have raised £500 which will be match funded.This is part of our ‘Operation Christmas Campaign’ where we have raised £500 for each of our four chosen charities this year. Mayor of Halton’s Fundraiser – Halton Foundation Halton Family Hub – Toys for children in need. Runcorn and District Food bank Mary’s Meals Thanks to Sandra and Trevor for hosting this event and to everyone who has supported our Fundraising Events this year.

The Mayoress Visits Club Meeting – In her very busy schedule, we were really pleased that the Mayoress of Halton was able to accept an invitation to our October Club Business Meeting. As we worked through the agenda, she showed great interest in our project work and in turn she told us about the work she and the Mayor were doing to support ‘The Halton Foundation’ a great local project to provide bursaries for young people who need help to go into or continue with further education – something that really resonated with us as Soroptimists. The Club has now agreed to support this project as part of our ‘Operation Christmas 2024 Appeal’.   The Mayoress was impressed with our Mastectomy Cushion/Drain-Bag project and very interested in the women we were supporting through our ‘Lend With Care’ project. BINGO Fundraiser Following the success of our

Teddy Tombola 2024 Runcorn/Frodsham Soroptimists have been running a ‘Teddy Tombola’ stall at the ‘Festival in the Park’ Frodsham since 2009, raising funds for our local Hospice. The Festival is staged by partners ‘Rotary’ 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. Our club runs the Tombola in aid of our local hospice ‘Halton Haven’.   Here are the teddies waiting to be numbered ready to go to Festival in The Park in Frodsham the next day, and getting excited about being on the #Soroptimist Tombola stall raising funds for Halton Haven Every number is a winner, and the teddies are wondering