Items for Sale/Recommended by Clubs

This section is for Soroptimist Clubs to sell Soroptimist promotional items to Members of other Soroptimist Clubs. Clubs can either put pictures and details of their items on the website so that they can sell directly to other clubs, or they can put supplier details to put Clubs in contact with suppliers who have made things for them. To have your items listed here please send a jpeg image and details to Sally Higgins – sally@sigbi.org.

Please note that items must be approved by SIGBI Trading Ltd to ensure that they conform to the SIGBI Brand before they are added to the website.

Items for raising awareness/funds for charities

SI Scotland South Playing Cards

SI Scotland South Card Set, created and designed by Region Membership Officer Melanie Brickley, tells the stories of many women who have challenged, providing an opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements within our Region.

This Set, a pack of cards and booklet with biographical details of the women featured on the cards, gives our Region the opportunity to mark 52 special women in a unique way, to do something original. The end product will be a useful gift for a speaker, a memento to keep, to share with friends and with our Friendship Link Clubs”.

The cost of the Set is £8.00 including UK postage.

Overseas orders will be charged at cost plus postage.

The Playing Card Project is not intended to be a Fund-Raising exercise. However, if there is any surplus at the end of the Project, it will be allocated to the SISSR 3S Fund. Details of the Fund are available on the SI Scotland South website.

Order Forms available from SI Scotland South Website www.sigbi.org/Scotland-south

For more information or queries contact Margaret Mowat on sissplayingcards@gmail.com

Easter Gifts for the Kori Development Project

Rosie Hutchinson, Member of SI Stratford Upon Avon, is selling beautiful hand-crafted Easter gifts. All profit from sales will go to SI Thames Valley‘s charity, the Kori Development Project, supporting women and children in Sierra Leone (see the photo of the library that was built as one of the projects). More info is available on their website koridp.org

Please click on the links below to download the catalogue and the order form.

Kori Spring catalogue KDP Spring order form

“Overcoming the Odds” by SI Middlesbrough

A book of 32 brief biographies of women, past and present, working in scientific fields.

Produced as a lockdown project by SI Middlesbrough.

£10 + postage. Profits will go to the Rosie May Foundation, which provides pink tuk tuks for the safe transport and employment of women in Sri Lanka.

Order from Pam Cooper on 07710449823 or cooperpageo21@aol.com

“A Beat From The Heart To The Heart Of Power” by Phyllis Sigsworth

Phyllis Sigsworth is a member of SI Slough Windsor and Maidenhead. She is very sprightly at 91 years old and has been a Soroptimist for over 50 years. She had a very distinguished career in the Police Service and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for distinguished Police Service. She has worked tirelessly on issues affecting women and children including domestic violence, human trafficking, and child protection, in both her working life in the Service and Soroptimist life.

She has written a book covering her thirty years of service, showing social changes and also changes in women’s role in law enforcement since 1950. The book is called “A Beat From The Heart To The Heart Of Power”. The proceeds from the sale of this book will be given to our local women’s refuge organisation DASH – Domestic Abuse Stops Here. The book was published on 27^th August 2020 and is available via Amazon, some branches of Waterstones and from Phyllis herself. Email Phyllis to order.

Sushila‘s Silk Suffragette Scarves

Quality 100% Pure Indian Silk Scarves in Suffragette Colours

The ‘must have’ scarf for the #VOTE100 decade – and for the Wimbledon Tennis season annually.

Length is 150 cms and the width is 80 cms

£10.00 each (plus post & packing estimate £2.50 for one and £3.50 for 4)

Washing instructions, by hand cold water.

To order please contact Sushila Sadarangani, a Soroptimist Member of the SI Greater London Club, by email at ssadarangani@nhs.net

Sushila makes a donation from sales to SI Greater London Club’s charities.

SIGBI Polo Shirts

SI Cheshire North Wales and Wirral have had some excellent, eye-catching polo shirts produced to wear at any event attended by Members.

To enquiry about pricing and place your order, contact Farndon House, Unit 1c, Riverside Trade Park, Saltney, CH4 8RL.

Tel: 01244 659543 (ask for Trish).

Website: www.farndonhouse.com.

Metal Spoon Project

SI Bilston and District has been working with Jasvinder Sanghera and her Charity Karma Nirvana (KN) since 2010. Karma Nirvana is a registered UK charity that supports victims and survivors of Forced Marriage and Honour Based Abuse. In July 2015 KN launched their Spoon Lapel Badge initiative to raise awareness of the issues affecting women & girls who are being forced to marry.

Call handlers at KN advise girls as a last resort when being taken out of this country to place a metal spoon in their underwear providing an opportunity to be taken aside when the airport security alarm sounds and spoken to in a private room.

Raising the awareness of the issues of Forced Marriage, now a criminal offence, is a lengthy process and it is hoped that the lapel spoons will be an excellent tool for raising awareness and advocacy. The project was announced at SIGBI Glasgow Conference when many Soroptimists expressed interest in the project and purchased spoons.

SI Bilston & District is selling the Lapel Spoons (£2),on behalf of KN, with all proceeds going to support the Help-Line of KN. For further information or to purchase lapel spoons contact Jackie Brookes on ortbro43@gmail.com or visit the website: www.sigbi.org/bilston-and-district.

Promotional Items

Car Stickers

This is a great idea. SI St Austell and District have designed their own car sticker, dimentions 240 x 60mm. There are two versions: a self-cling that sits inside of the back window – for clear windows – and a vinyl sticker that sites on the outside of the window for cars with tinted windows.

The price is £2.00 plus postage and packing. If you wish to order any car stickers please contact Liz Jenkin – lizjenkin@cornwallsigns.com.

Nylon Bags

Any Club interested should email dynamicgrafix@btconnect.com – bags can bought for £2 each (depending on stock levels) minimum order 100 + P&P.

Tabards

These tabards look great and are printed on both sides. They cost £18 each. Please email dynamicgrafix@btconnect.com to order.

Fleeces

SI Chelmsford had fleeces made with their Club Logo on. These really stand out when worn by all members participating in a particular event, and can also be worn by individual members when out shopping. They are bound to attract attention.

Order your own:

Regatta
Minuteman Press
Unit 20 Eckersley Road
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 1SL
Tel: 01245 268222
Fax: 01245 268290
Email: minuteman@btconnect.com

The fleeces cost £21.50 including printing, but plus postage and packing, and come in the following sizes (the number of inches shown is the bust measurement:

Extra Small (34″), Small (38″), Medium (41″), Large (44″), XL (47″), 2XL (52″), 3XL (56″).

Payment can be made by cheque, made payable to Direct INQ, or by BACS: Account Name Direct INQ; Sort Code 30-91-85; Account No: 04576197

Plain Roll Up Banner

SI St Albans & District and SI Hertford & District can recommend a great supplier for light weight roll up banners.

They were charged £40 + VAT – which included a carry case and shipping in the UK – which is a really good price.

If Clubs only want to change the Club Name and website address on the banner then there may not be a charge for creating the artwork – although each order will need to be quoted separately and prices may have gone up.

See artwork.

Order your own:

Kituout
Unit 2 Ermine Point
Gentlemens Field Ware
Herts
SG12 0EF
Tel: 01920 485550
Email: sales@kituout.com
Contact email: ben@kituout.com
Website: www.kituout.com

Soroptimist Scarf

SI Wexford (Republic of Ireland) developed this beautiful silk scarf in the Soroptimist colours and Emblem. They have been selling this item very successfully to the Clubs in the Republic of Ireland and they had a stand at the Conference in Harrogate where the item was very well received by the many delegates.

Right is picture of the scarf being worn at Harrogate. The scarf features on the ROI website and can be purchased by contacting the PRO at www.soroptimistireland.com

Soroptimist Rose – The Perfect Gift

Perfect on the patio or balcony. Happy in a large pot or in the ground.

ORDERS TAKEN NOW FOR DELIVERY & PLANTING – DECEMBER-JANUARY

This autumn (2020) we have just 25 bare-rooted roses available. Cost is the same: £12.95 each, post/packing is £4.95 for one rose or £6.95 for 2-4 plants to the same address.

A Soroptimist Rose in a pot is still £14.95 and delivery is £9.75. More roses in pots to the same address will be £2.75 each. Roses are extremely well packed for delivery.

Order from: Peggy Simson at pegsimson@gmail.com – telephone 01628 523386

All profits from the sale of the Soroptimist Rose go to SI Thames Valley’s charities.

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