{"id":4816,"date":"2025-12-06T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:23:21","slug":"packing-christmas-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/2025\/12\/06\/packing-christmas-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing Christmas bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the club&#8217;s December meeting members packed Christmas bags.\u00a0 The completed bags will be donated to those from the local Re-Engage groups that we support.\u00a0 It is a fun activity after a business meeting, and was enjoyed by all present. (The picture of us doing this last year was included in the montage at conference in Birmingham)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Filling-parcels.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4818\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Filling-parcels-300x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Filling-parcels-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Filling-parcels.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Completed-parcels.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4817\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Completed-parcels-300x152.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Completed-parcels-300x152.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Completed-parcels.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One member of the club had suggested that we also collect socks for the homeless.\u00a0 So there was a cosy pile of socks collected on the side table at the meeting too.\u00a0 These were taken to a contact in Portchester, to donate to the homeless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Collection-of-socks.JPG.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4819\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Collection-of-socks.JPG-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Collection-of-socks.JPG-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/2025-Collection-of-socks.JPG.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the bags for Re-Engage were delivered in time for Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4824\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-3.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4823\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4822\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2025\/12\/Bags-to-ReEngage-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the club&#8217;s December meeting members packed Christmas bags.\u00a0 The completed bags will be donated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":863,"featured_media":4817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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>Packing Christmas bags | News | Blog | Events | SI Solent East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Solent East : Blog &amp; News : Packing Christmas bags : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Solent East . 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