As part of efforts to attract more local women to join the embryo Club, members of the Salisbury Satellite Group have mounted a display in the window of Salisbury Library for the month of February 2018.
Members, partners and potential members and friends met up on Saturday 13 January to play pub skittles at the Swan at Stoford. The evening provided a great opportunity for members of the new Club to get to know each other a little better and for our other halves to meet each other. We enjoyed a good pub meal and several friendly games of skittles. The winning team shared the chocolates with all players and the ‘wooden spoons’ were awarded to the third team. Thanks to Teresa for organising the evening and to staff at the Swan for making us welcome. We must do it again soon!
Make a New Year’s resolution to make a difference for women and girls in 2018. Come and join the newest women’s club in Salisbury and you can achieve just that! Want to find out more? Salisbury Soroptimists are running a table display at Five Rivers Health and Well Being Centre from 8 to 14 January 2018. There will be information about the projects we have worked on during 2017 with the Salisbury Women’s Refuge and the Alabaré Mother and Baby House, as well as the STEM project we are running for girls in local schools during 2018. You can also find out more about the issues we care deeply about; safety for women in Salisbury’s night time economy, support for women exposed to domestic violence, how trafficking and modern day slavery impacts women and girls, and strategies to help prevent forced marriage. All about making
Christmas gifts delivered to the ladies we support locally, Christmas tree back down from the Christmas Tree Festival and Christmas Market Stall done, we decided it was time for us to kick back and enjoy ourselves. Our delicious Christmas meal this year at our usual meeting place of the Chapter House in Salisbury gave us the chance to get to know each other and some of our potential members a little better.
Our Christmas Market stall appearance was filmed for That’s Salisbury, which is available locally on Freeview Channel 7, or via YouTube. See us here:
Salisbury Soroptimists had a very successful (if chilly) day at Salisbury Christmas Market where they sold Purple Community Fund items made by women in vulnerable communities in the Philippines and the UK. They also sold jams, marmalades and chutneys made by one of their supporters.
At our November meeting we were delighted to welcome Eleanor Evans into our fledgling Salisbury Soroptimist Group. Eleanor, who originally hails from Watford, has lived in the Salisbury area for more than twenty years. Eleanor, on the right of this picture, was welcomed by existing members (left to right) Lisa, Frances and Liz. Eleanor is a digital product Manager for Aviva. She has already been involved in a number of our service projects, including our STEM project. She has attended her first Regional meeting too! At our meeting we were joined by Liz Dominey from SI Bournemouth and two potential new members.
Salisbury Soroptimists are getting into the festive spirit this year in the city! We have dressed and displayed a Christmas tree in St Thomas’s Church Christmas Tree Festival from 5-10 December. Entitled ‘Women 4 Women’, our tree decorations will give some clues as to the projects we are working on locally and will show some of the work we do on a global scale. Come and visit our tree, alongside the many others taking part in the festival, which is open 10am to 5.30pm weekdays and Saturday and 12 noon to 6pm on Sunday 10 December. On Monday 11 December visit Salisbury Christmas Market to meet Salisbury Soroptimists in the charity chalet. We will be selling lovely gift items including bags, purses, wallets and jewellery made from recycled materials and handmade by women living in vulnerable communities both in the
We were pleased with the response we received from the public passing though Salisbury’s Cheese Market to the UK wide survey carried out in early October to establish people’s knowledge of human trafficking and modern day slavery. 24% of those who took part in the survey said they didn’t know how widespread trafficking and modern day slavery was in the Salisbury area. Some 32% of those questioned said that they thought it was widespread or fairly widespread locally. Several people who took part in the survey recalled Salisbury Journal reports of police raids on the Firsdown car wash and the Chilmark bunker, where trafficking and slavery were suspected. Most people said that they did not know how to recognise whether someone had been trafficked or was being kept against their will, with 74% of respondents saying they would not recognise these signs, which include
Salisbury members spent an enjoyable day networking with the Eve Appeal and other local cancer charities including Wessex Cancer Trust at the Fisherton Street Surgery. Specialist cancer nurses and public health specialists were on hand to chat to women about cancer concerns. The Salisbury Soroptimists provided free cakes and delivered what was left at the end of the day to Salisbury Women’s Refuge. We did some great networking, met some lovely potential members for the new club and had a great fun day!
