{"id":4136,"date":"2017-11-03T01:20:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2020-11-23T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:46:08","slug":"step-up-lead-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2017\/11\/03\/step-up-lead-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Up, Lead the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Seventy Soroptimists from South Lancashire attended the 83<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">rd<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cardiff2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Federation Conference<\/a> of Soroptimist International, Great Britain &amp; Ireland.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Soroptimist conferences are a heady mix of concentration, information, conversation and celebration \u2013 with retail therapy, friendship and fun adding to the experience. &#8216;Step Up, Lead the Way&#8217; in Cardiff 2017 was no exception.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4139\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Two-Margarets-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4139 size-medium\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Two-Margarets-2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Two-Margarets-2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Two-Margarets-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our two Margarets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">At the change of insignia event, Margaret Molyneux (SI Leigh &amp; District) stepped down after a packed and positive year as South Lancashire\u2019s Regional President. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif\">It has been a pleasure, an honour and a privilege to serve the Region<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif\">\u201d, she said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: medium\">Taking over the reins (and the chain) is Margaret Davies (SI Southport). Her theme for the year &#8211; \u2018Reach Out\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4153\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-1-Cardiff-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4153 size-medium\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-1-Cardiff-2017-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-1-Cardiff-2017-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-1-Cardiff-2017-768x1285.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-1-Cardiff-2017-612x1024.jpg 612w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-1-Cardiff-2017.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federation President Sue Biggs installs Margaret Davies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4154\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-2-Cardiff-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4154\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-2-Cardiff-2017-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-2-Cardiff-2017-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2017\/11\/Installation-2-Cardiff-2017.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SI South Lancashire&#8217;s new President<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy Soroptimists from South Lancashire attended the 83rd Federation Conference of Soroptimist International, Great Britain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":4142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4136","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>Step Up, Lead the Way | News | Blog | Events | SI South Lancashire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI South Lancashire : Blog &amp; News : Step Up, Lead the Way : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI South Lancashire . 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