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Our region of Southern England has 9 clubs and stretches from Poole Purbeck and District club in the South West to Epsom and District in the North East. In between we have Bournemouth, Salisbury, Winchester and District, Surrey Hills (based around Godalming), Woking and District, Weybridge and District and Solent East (covering Gosport and Fareham, but also Southampton, Portsmouth and Chichester areas). Links are to their respective club pages on this website.
There were previously more clubs in our area, and we are seeking to ‘fill the gaps’ again in the coming years. You’ll find that each club has its own character, and meets on different days, so if you can’t make it to the nearest one then another might meet on a more convenient night. We don’t yet have a virtual club, but that is also a possibility for the future, where club members meet online and do their programme action in person in the local area.
Our region’s theme for the coming year is “Communication for Action”. We have a number of key vacancies in the Regional Management Team, which means that team members are spread rather thin and covering as much of the regional administration as they can. Communication is key.
Our Federation, of Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI – ‘sig-bee’), is structured and run as described in the mother website, but if you would like a step-by-step guide through these pages then please follow this link to a summary (TBA). A lot of information is hosted on “The Hub”, but you’ll need to register with a membership number and password for that.
As with all organisations, there is a certain amount of shorthand and jargon, so we have put together a list of acronyms and jargon-busters here (TBA).
