Our Programme for the year 2017 – 2018
President Sharon continues to work to make sure that everyone knows who we are, through our local projects. This year we are supporting Manna’s Ark, a project to construct a sensory garden at a learning centre for Basic Life Skills with a therapeutic approach in Witham. We hope we can help build the sensory garden and create a peaceful place.
We meet on the third Monday of each month apart from August. In December, we meet earlier in the month and hold our Christmas celebration. Our meetings are being planned to incorporate information about our local, national and international projects. If you are a visitor to our website and would like to come along to a meeting, please get in touch at southendsoroptimists@blueyonder.co.uk. The programme for the rest of the year looks like this:
May 2017
8th Executive Meeting
15th ☺ Membership Month – Bring a Friend or just come along to find out about us!
We shall present the President’s project cheque this month to John from SOS Buses
27th Coffee Morning at Jackie’s – all welcome
June 2017
3rd Growing our Brand meeting in Cambridge
10th Regional Meeting at Newnham College, Cambridge
12th Executive Meeting
19th ☺ Speaker Faith Marchal – Regional Ambassador for SIGBI Federation’s Meru Garden project
July 2017
10th Executive Meeting
17th ☺President’s Project Speaker – Manna’s Ark
August 2017
Working Day at Manna’s Ark to help create a sensory garden
September 2017
11th Executive Meeting
16th Growing our Brand meeting in Cambridge
18th ☺Speaker – LAR Project – Neat Feet and Happy Hands – Rosa Russell
30th Regional Meeting at Newnham College, Cambridge
October 2017
9th Executive Meeting
16th☺Speaker – YMCA and a Programme Action catch-up including the new LR Project
November 2017
4th Awards Dinner – Soroptimists with YMCA
13th Executive Meeting
20th ☺Wrapping Gifts for Christmas for the homeless and hospitalised
25th EVAW – with S-o-S Domestic Abuse Panel
December 2017
☺11th Christmas meal
January 2018
8th Executive Meeting
15th ☺Speaker – Southend refuge
February 2018
12th Executive Meeting
19th ☺Anna James – Criminologist – Preventing Extremism and Radicalisation
March 2018
12th Executive Meeting
19th ☺Club Evening – Programme Action- planning the coming year
April 2018
9th Executive Meeting
16th ☺AGM and Review of the Year
☺ these meetings will take place at Garon Park Golf Complex – all meetings start at 7.15pm sharp!
Our meetings are well attended and there’s time for chat, since we start with a two-course meal when we all sit and talk with friends. At 8pm we have a speaker on one of our projects and this is followed by our business meeting – mainly focussed on what we’re doing or going to do. The meeting closes around 10pm.