{"id":3673,"date":"2017-01-02T22:57:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T21:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:54:38","slug":"santas-little-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2017\/01\/02\/santas-little-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa&#8217;s Little Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/01\/Leigh-Soroptimists-with-Christmas-guests.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3674\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/01\/Leigh-Soroptimists-with-Christmas-guests-300x225.png\" alt=\"Leigh Soroptimists with Christmas guests\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/01\/Leigh-Soroptimists-with-Christmas-guests-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/01\/Leigh-Soroptimists-with-Christmas-guests.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For several years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sileigh.co.uk\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leigh &amp; District Soroptimists<\/a> have provided transport for people attending the local Park Tearooms on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers at the Tearooms provided lunch, food hampers and gifts for approximately 30 guests of all ages who would normally spend Christmas Day alone.<\/p>\n<p>All the items for the event were donated by businesses and residents in the town. Even the turkeys were cooked at the local Fire Station kitchen. It was a real team effort.<\/p>\n<p>South Lancashire Region President (and Leigh club member) Margaret Molyneux said, &#8220;Our members stepped into this role because there were no appropriate public services. We have found that the pleasure, companionship and merrymaking make the commitment so worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are proud to be able to help people in our own community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years Leigh &amp; District Soroptimists have provided transport for people attending the local&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":3684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","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>Santa&#039;s Little Drivers | News | Blog | Events | SI South Lancashire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI South Lancashire : Blog &amp; News : Santa&#039;s Little Drivers : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI South Lancashire . 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