Each club identifies the needs of its community, then establishes specific projects to address these needs. All SI projects relate to one or more of the six Programme Focus Areas: Economic Empowerment, Environmental Sustainability, Food Security and Healthcare, Learning Opportunities and Violence and Conflict Resolution.
The projects listed below include some of the local and international issues we research and support in SI Solent East:
Current project work:
- Our main efforts are in raising awareness of the key International Days and UN events, such as CSW, that SIGBI support.
- We are sponsoring entrepreneurs with micro-finance via LendwithCare.
- We collect items for donation, to such as local food banks or My Sisters’ House.
- We hope to identify a more substantive project, and a particular charity to support, for the coming club year.
Ongoing support:
- Contact the Elderly. A tea party for the local (Fareham and Southampton) Contact the Elderly groups is held each summer, usually at Hill Head. The club also funds Christmas presents for the group. One club member is the local organiser for the Fareham and Gosport group, and would welcome any offer of help as a driver once a month or as an hostess once a year.
- Gathering (collecting for recycling). We are starting to formalise our recycling and collections as a club, as these now include:
- 5/10/20/50p coins. Raising money for the club’s micro-finance donations via LendwithCare.
- Food and hygiene products. For the Basics Bank.
- Stamps. Collected from the club to be donated via the Lee Bookshop for RNIB.