{"id":4521,"date":"2021-09-19T21:07:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2021-09-19T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T20:09:08","slug":"what-we-did-in-the-year-of-zoom-2020-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/2021\/09\/19\/what-we-did-in-the-year-of-zoom-2020-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"What we did in the year of Zoom! 2020-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>CLUB REPORT SI SEVENOAKS April 2020-21<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has been the <strong>year <\/strong>of <strong>Zoom! \u2026<\/strong>which has enabled the Club to function thanks to Penny &amp; Jenny&#8230;kept us in touch with Region <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2026\u2026and which made me think of a <strong>Z to A<\/strong> guide for the Club year. <strong>Z = Zoom\u00a0 Y= Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>X<\/strong> is for the crosses put on all the ballot papers received from SIGBI<\/p>\n<p><strong>W <\/strong>would be for supporting International <strong>women\u2019s<\/strong> day by participating in the Close the gender gap movement;\u00a0 President Penny laying a<strong> wreath<\/strong> of poppies on Remembrance Sunday, albeit without the usual ceremony on the Vine; a talk on <strong>witchcraft <\/strong>and lobbying letters to our MP on better legislation <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to help <strong>women victims<\/strong> of abuse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>V <\/strong>would be all the voluntary work and a social lunch at the Mount <strong>Vineyard <\/strong>caf\u00e9 in the short window of time in the Summer when it was possible to meet each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U <\/strong>for support of <strong>UN days <\/strong>as in November \u201cOrange the world\u201d \u2013elimination of gender based violence. And always bearing in mind the <strong>UN<\/strong> sustainable development goals when we plan our projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T <\/strong>must be tree planting near the Vine caf\u00e9 \u2013 Pat Downing\u2019s suggestion followed up by the purchase of an amelanchier canadensis in liaison with the Town Council, who have also purchased Soroptimist <strong>tulips.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>S &amp; R <\/strong>brings us to shawls which have been donated to <strong>Syrian<\/strong> <strong>Refugee <\/strong>families in Sevenoaks \u00a0as the pandemic has temporarily closed the route to the Hamlin Fistula hospital in Addis Ababa. <strong>S <\/strong>also for our friendship link <strong>St Helens<\/strong> with whom<strong> Shirley<\/strong> Brigham keeps in touch and the <strong>Shares <\/strong>we bought to support the SI Residential Club in Bayswater Rd .<\/p>\n<p><strong>R <\/strong>for Christmas treats on a plate for <strong>Rockdale residents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q <\/strong>for the Christmas\u00a0 quiz at our virtual Christmas party.<\/p>\n<p>And probably the most important letter is <strong>P<\/strong> for <strong>PAFFS (Programme Action Focus Forms ) <\/strong>sent to the Federation conscientiously &amp; regularly by Isobel Groves and reaching the grand record total for our Club of 30, indicating all the continuing work even during lockdown. And of course the 5 x <strong>Ps <\/strong>which are the areas of our action <strong>Peace, People, Planet, Partnerships &amp; Prosperity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>O <\/strong>is for our overseas links \u2013 we sent Christmas news sheets to SI Fribourg, Switzerland &amp; SI Cobran Barooga inc. in Australia : and of course we have our Regional President Grace <strong>Onions<\/strong> !<\/p>\n<p><strong>N <\/strong>brings us to the monthly Regional newsletters which have been very full and colourful<\/p>\n<p><strong>M is <\/strong>very important, standing for <strong>membership. <\/strong>We finished the Club year with 22 members which included Beverley who joined during lockdown &amp; our student member Rachel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Macmillan Coffee mornings <\/strong>were also held with reduced numbers or virtually, but equally lucrative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>L <\/strong>is covered by a talk on the Sackville <strong>leopards <\/strong>at Knole on the lighter side; but also for <strong>lobbying \u2013 <\/strong>on domestic abuse, provision of a vaccination centre in Edenbridge and Fairtrade<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2021\/09\/sensory-muffs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4524\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2021\/09\/sensory-muffs-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2021\/09\/sensory-muffs-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2021\/09\/sensory-muffs.jpg 993w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>K, knitting <\/strong>of sensory twiddle muffs for the Hospice<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>J, \u00a0<\/strong>a regional meeting talk by the first female <strong>jet <\/strong>pilot<\/p>\n<p><strong>I <\/strong>equals <strong>Instagram <\/strong>\u2013 worked on for hours by Penny &amp; Rachel and whose pages generate interest\u00a0 about SI Sevenoaks at home &amp; abroad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H <\/strong>we had a talk on the <strong>Hospice <\/strong>by their creative musician<\/p>\n<p><strong>G <\/strong>for <strong>Gardening <\/strong>\u2013 an outdoor activity which could continue. The gardeners have worked so hard to keep the Vine garden looking good &amp; they felt justifiably proud when Sevenoaks was awarded a gold medal for South &amp;\u00a0 South East England in Bloom. Another <strong>G is Gatwick detainees <\/strong>with clothes collections for male detainees being made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>F <\/strong>most recently the support for <strong>female fire-fighters <\/strong>in Poland; gifts to the local <strong>Food Bank &amp;\u00a0 <\/strong>funding for food parcels in Zimbabwe. <strong>Friendship <\/strong>has been particularly important during lockdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>E Environment \u2013 <\/strong>a member carried out litter picking at a local beauty spot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>D <\/strong>for the<strong> doves <\/strong>of peace members made for displaying on the Vine for VE &amp; VJ days and the collage thereof created by Penny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C Camfed <\/strong>\u2013 campaign for female education in sub-Saharan Africa has continued to have our support<\/p>\n<p><strong>B \u2013 Batch baking <\/strong>for NHS staff at Maidstone Hospital who hadn\u2019t access to canteen facilities &amp; for residents in sheltered accommodation. And last October the virtual SIGBI Conference in <strong>Belfast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And so we reach <strong>A <\/strong>our continued support for the charity <strong>Arts without boundaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No doubt you can think of other points which characterised this strangest of years of not being able to meet, but perhaps there is enough content to show that SI Sevenoaks has been far from inactive under the leadership of President Penny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 2021 &#8211; Isobel White Club Secretary SI Sevenoaks <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLUB REPORT SI SEVENOAKS April 2020-21 This has been the year of Zoom! \u2026which has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What we did in the year of Zoom! 2020-2021 | News | Blog | Events | SI Sevenoaks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Sevenoaks : Blog &amp; News : What we did in the year of Zoom! 2020-2021 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Sevenoaks . 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