{"id":1655,"date":"2013-11-09T00:53:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2019-03-05T23:30:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:30:36","slug":"red-roses-at-gateshead-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2013\/11\/09\/red-roses-at-gateshead-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Roses at Gateshead Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/11\/Gateshead-conference-red-square-President-Liz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1664\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/11\/Gateshead-conference-red-square-President-Liz.jpg\" alt=\"soroptimist president liz with red rose at gateshead conference\" width=\"205\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/11\/Gateshead-conference-red-square-President-Liz.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/11\/Gateshead-conference-red-square-President-Liz-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>Over 100 Soroptimists from clubs in the South Lancashire Region attended the 79<sup>th<\/sup> Federation Conference in Gateshead. This year\u2019s theme was \u2018From Vision to Action Soroptimists Educating to Lead \u2013 Educate, Empower, Enable\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In total 1,200 Soroptimists from 29 countries packed The Sage to take in challenging presentations and thoughtful discussions, and enjoy excellent entertainment. Members from throughout the region, including President Liz McConnell, took part in the conference\u2019s Red Square Event, to raise awareness about endometriosis. Set against the backdrop of the Millennium Bridge the sea of red &#8211; including red roses for everyone &#8211; was impressive.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: small\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/11\/Gateshead-conference-SI-Widnes-members1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1668\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/11\/Gateshead-conference-SI-Widnes-members1.jpg\" alt=\"widnes soroptimists at gateshead conference\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/11\/Gateshead-conference-SI-Widnes-members1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2013\/11\/Gateshead-conference-SI-Widnes-members1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a>Programme Action \u2013 the focus for all Soroptimists \u2013 featured strongly. SI Widnes were asked to showcase their ongoing project with SI Bangalore, India, partnering the Brindavan Education Trust. (This project won the regional <a title=\"link to south lancashire soroptimists programme award to widnes\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2012\/11\/04\/celebrating-success-widnes-and-bangalore\/\">Programme Action Award<\/a> in 2012.) President Paula Fox, Yvonne Gibbon, Wendy Ross-Barker and Linda Redhead took to the stage and, taking Jaume Plensa\u2019s local statue \u2018Dream\u2019 as a key, explained how the project is helping girls with special educational needs to believe and achieve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">SI Leigh and District were shortlisted for a Federation Programme Award for their <a title=\"link to leigh soroptimists just the job project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sileigh.co.uk\/Pages\/JustTheJob.aspx\">\u2018Just the Job\u2019<\/a> project. This provides workshops to give unemployed women the confidence and the tools to find and apply for jobs. The workshops cover Job Search and Application, Interview Techniques and Presenting Yourself at your Best. The club missed out on the main prize, but this publicity for Leigh\u2019s project will have impressed the delegates.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Margaret Molyneux, Regional Programme Action Officer, said, \u201cI am delighted that two clubs in our region featured at this year\u2019s <a title=\"link to soroptimist federation conference gateshead\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/gateshead2013\/\">SIGBI conference<\/a>. SI Widnes and SI Bangalore deserve recognition for their well planned, long-term, partnership project that is already showing excellent results. SI Leigh and District\u2019s members are, of course, disappointed that a Programme Award proved just out of reach \u2013 but very pleased to have been selected for the shortlist from so many projects throughout the Federation.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 Soroptimists from clubs in the South Lancashire Region attended the 79th Federation Conference&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Red Roses at Gateshead Conference | News | Blog | Events | SI South Lancashire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI South Lancashire : Blog &amp; News : Red Roses at Gateshead Conference : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI South Lancashire . 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