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Taking off the mask Christmas Tree

The annual St Thomas' Christmas Tree Festival is in full swing and Salisbury Soroptimists are regular contributors. This year our Women's Health Group took the lead, creating a tree to raise awareness of the difficulties autistic women have in getting a diagnosis. This is because

Round the World in 80 (or so) questions

Salisbury Soroptimists decided to change the theme of their annual quiz to a trip around the world in 80 (or so) questions. In the past the quiz has focused on women to address the normal cultural bias. Teams started in Salisbury with literary allusions to

BRAvo Salisbury!

Bra Collection 2025 For the 7th year running Salisbury Soroptimists asked local residents to turn out their drawers, and they did! We had collection points at 60 Endless Street, Five Rivers Leisure Centre, Salisbury Library, Salisbury Playhouse and Salisbury and South Wilts Golf Club. In

SI Salisbury Welcomes Southern England Region

The first Regional Meeting hosted by SI Salisbury was held at Sarum College in the beautiful surroundings of Salisbury’s Cathedral Close, appropriately on the longest (and hottest) day of the year, just after the summer Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, a few miles away. Members from

Welcome to the UK!

We are constantly bombarded with statistics about the numbers of migrants coming to the UK. People come here for a variety of reasons. Many arrive legally, some do not. At our May meeting we welcomed two recent migrants from very different countries, but with something

Police Action in Wiltshire: VAWG

We welcomed DS Jen Jeffcoat-Marsh to talk to us about how Wiltshire Police are dealing with VAWG and Rape And Serious Sexual Assault (RASSO). She began by explaining about Op Soteria, the first National Operating Model (NOM) for the investigation of rape and serious sexual

IWD talk at Cathedral

Club members celebrated International Women’s Day by going to the cathedral to listen to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in conversation with the Bishop of Sherborne. Nazanin took us through the story of her arrest and imprisonment and talked about the long term consequences of the experience. Her

Eating well

Our January meeting focused on good nutrition to keep us healthy. Our speaker, Amber Cotton is a Registered Nutritional Therapist who enjoys working with people to build a food program suitable to their age, lifestyle and health. Her topic for the evening was Mastering Midlife

16 Days of Activism 2024

Salisbury Soroptimists splashed orange around the city during 16 Days of Activism, part of the United Nations Orange the World initiative to eliminate violence against women. Postboxes were topped with orange crocheted flowers and shoes to represent women killed by partners – a shocking average

Quiz 2024

We held our annual Charity Quiz Night at the Harnham Parish Hall on October 12. Eight teams exercised their brains to answer six rounds of questions and the two table rounds. While many questions were about women and their achievements, there was plenty of variety