Our speaker at the first of our new Wednesday evening speaker/supper meetings on 11 April will be Teresa Wells, Programme Director for EdUKaid. Teresa will give a presentation on the challenges children face in accessing an education in the developing world and how a small, Salisbury based, charity have achieved such an incredible impact in some of the most remote areas of rural Tanzania. The meeting starts at 7pm in the White Hart Hotel, St John’s Street, Salisbury and after a 2 course meal costing £15, there will then be a short break. If you would prefer not to eat with us you can join us at 8pm when our speaker Teresa will address us.  Do come along and join us for this new and slightly more sociable meeting! You are most welcome to bring friends to the Supper Meeting as long as you please let us know.

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:  

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