Light Touches
The club played host to past Federation President Liz Batten (better known as Morgan-Lewis professionally, but nearly 5 years married so finally using her proper name!). Pam Grosvenor, on the right, introduced her as the club mentor for this year, and that she was here to tell us how to run the club! That was a tall order, so Liz opted for a more informal approach, sharing how others were experimenting as ‘light-touch’ clubs, but still getting the benefits of SI membership: as she said, “if you’re still making a difference to the lives of women and girls, and enjoying what you are doing, then it doesn’t matter if you don’t have all the officers of a club.” The key to success is ensuring that Programme Action is central to what we do – Liz reminisced about the range of projects we had been involved