{"id":4488,"date":"2018-09-10T21:45:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2023-03-28T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:18:37","slug":"successful-soroptimist-projects-and-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/2018\/09\/10\/successful-soroptimist-projects-and-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Soroptimist Projects &#8211; and Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Three Soroptimist clubs in South Lancashire showcased their project work at a recent regional Programme Action meeting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4499\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-PAC-club-projects.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4499\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-PAC-club-projects-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-PAC-club-projects-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-PAC-club-projects.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ring-pulls, toilets and packed lunches!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>SI Ashton-under-Lyne<\/strong> members have a ring-pull project, in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.p-c-f.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purple Community Fund<\/a>. The charity offers people in the Philippines and the UK a pathway out of poverty through a social enterprise that turns the ring-pulls into jewellery and other saleable items. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Members calculate they have, so far, collected over 55,000 drinks-can ring-pulls. Local publicity, personal contacts and market stalls \u2013 all have been used to \u2018spread the word\u2019 and gather in more ring-pulls. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>SI Bolton<\/strong> has taken part in a local project to provide packed lunches during the summer holidays for school children in families where finances are particularly vulnerable. Members worked on the rota to fulfil a total of 43,000 packed lunches over the summer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This service initiative was one of several that the club has developed in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanoutreach.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urban Outreach<\/a>, a local charity that works with disadvantaged adults and children.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>SI Widnes<\/strong> has been raising awareness of the dangers \u2013 particularly to women in many countries \u2013 of the lack of safe, clean water and sanitation facilities. Members have worked in partnership with the charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toilettwinning.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toilet Twinning<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Through fundraising, liaison with the local council and publicity initiatives the club is on target to \u2018twin\u2019 20 toilets in the town.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The presenters of all three projects offered many \u2018learning points\u2019 for other clubs\u2019 future work, as well as giving clear information on their own experiences. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4501\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-rosebowl-challenge-winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4501\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-rosebowl-challenge-winners-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-rosebowl-challenge-winners-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-rosebowl-challenge-winners.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President&#8217;s Challenge rosebowl winners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Awards<\/strong>: At the conclusion of the day&#8217;s meetings, Regional President Margaret was delighted to present two regional awards. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Rosebowl (for this year\u2019s President\u2019s Challenge to \u2018Reach Out\u2019) went to SI St Helens. The Programme Action Award went jointly to SI Leigh &amp; District and SI St Helens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4503\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-PAC-award-winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4503 size-medium\" src=\"\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-PAC-award-winners-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-PAC-award-winners-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/south-lancashire\/files\/2018\/09\/regional-PAC-award-winners.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Programme Action award winners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Soroptimist clubs in South Lancashire showcased their project work at a recent regional Programme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":4508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4488","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>Successful Soroptimist Projects - and Awards | News | Blog | Events | SI South Lancashire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI South Lancashire : Blog &amp; News : Successful Soroptimist Projects - and Awards : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI South Lancashire . 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