2024 Events, 2023 Events 23/08/26 Afternoon Tea Party in Sally's garden. What a blissful event, the weather perfect, the garden glorious, the food delicious, and the chats enjoyable. Thanks to all those who helped, making tea and coffee providing a wide range of cakes buns, scones etc and especially Sally and Steve for their hospitality. (Not forgetting the cat's purr). Anne's plants provided a lovely memento of the occasion. £ 532 was raised for GROW! 22/07/26 Summer Outing, visit to GROW . This year our summer outing was an inspirational visit to the GROW training site. GROW is a youth (ages 16 -24) development charity which boosts wellbeing, social skills, and employability through therapy, nature, and gardening. GROWS site enables the trainees to experience hands on horticulture. We visited various parts of the active site and were given a comprehensive talk on GROW's programmes, achievements,

2024 Meetings, 2023 Meetings The monthly meeting covers all aspects of managing the club and it's activities. After a summary of the past month's activities each committee member or group leader reports on the progress and plans for their individual area. The meeting also acts as a venue for updates from our supported charities, club occasions e.g. presentation of awards to winners of the children's poster competition, talks by members, welcome of new members etc. O7/09/26 Club Business Meeting. The business meeting began with a presentation front Jonathan on community financed " Sheffield Energy Works" which hopes to develop carbon neutral power supplies to individual local businesses, groups, etc.; the first project being "My Cow Molly" farm initially by use of solar power and anaerobic digestion and potentially also wind turbines. Profits would be used to give investors both interest and repayments and hopefully help

O7/09/26 Club Business Meeting. The business meeting began with a presentation front Jonathan on community financed " Sheffield Energy Works" which hopes to develop carbon neutral power supplies to individual local businesses, groups, etc.; the first project being "My Cow Molly" farm initially by use of solar power and anaerobic digestion and potentially also wind turbines. Profits would be used to give investors both interest and repayments and hopefully help finance further projects. Needless to say this talk led to a lively question session. The group then were delighted to join joint Presidents Gail and Sally in a welcome to new member Ann, introduced by Anne G. 23/08/26 Afternoon Tea Party in Sally's garden. What a blissful event, the weather perfect, the garden glorious, the food delicious, and the chats enjoyable. Thanks to all those who helped, making tea and coffee providing a wide range

Our first Orange the World event took place on July 25th at Waitrose café. A global campaign supported by the UN Orange the World seeks to eliminate violence against women. Orange day, November 25th, the first day of the annual 16 days of activism against gender based violence, is designated as International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The 16 days end on December 10th, Human Rights Day Please wear or display something Orange on November 25th to demonstrate support. 25/06/26 Orange Café at Tesco. We were delighted that Julia joined us in Tesco's, her offer of dressing up clothes for Winn Gardens was gratefully accepted. 10/06/26 Loneliness Awareness Campaign @ Sheffield Station Community Rail in Action: Connecting People at Sheffield Station for Loneliness Awareness Week On 10 June, the children’s charity Railway Children and Community Rail at South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

29/04/26 Buns, Jewellery and Cosmetics sale at KES. This bun sale was the last function involving this year's 'Share Our Skills'  girls from King Edward's. An early surge of customers left the food section effectively sold-out. Although the other items were not as successful a short ice-cream campaign  brought the takings to £255.50 for 'Mums in Need' 26/03/26 Wendy's Coffee Morning with Orange Café. Wendy kindly hosted a fund-raising Coffee Morning combined with March Orange Café. Good food, pleasant company: result £274.00 raised. Thank you Jackie for your tree and especially  Wendy for such a successful event. 03/12/25 'Bun Sale' at King Edwards School 'Share our Skills' girls came out in force. They provided a large selection of cakes, biscuits etc. set up the stall with both enthusiasm  and efficiency. Daphne and co. were left with little to do. £254.85 was raises for 'Mums in

15/08/24 Si Yorkshire President at Winn Gardens SI Yorkshire President Susie visited Winn Gardens Food Bank where she met not only met staff and residents but also helped sort donations. 23/11/23 Post Conference Party Post Conference Party to welcome Yorkshire President Susie Hilary and Daphne enjoyed the Post Conference Party that welcomed Susie, Yorkshire's President and also celebrated Thelma's birthday. 15/10/23 @ Halifax's Charter Lunch Party Seven of our members joined SI Halifax and District at their 90th Charter Lunch held in the grand Masonic Hall. 30/09/23 @ Hallamshire's Charter Lunch Members enjoyed SI Hallamshire's Charter lunch at Tapton. 09/09/23 Boat trip on Chesterfield canal Everyone enjoyed the boat trip on Chesterfield canal which raised £138 for Mums in Need. The weather was fine; comments ranged through interesting, fun, relaxing and informative. Thanks to President Sue for organising it and her husband who captained the