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Knitting for Nepal!

Knitting for Nepal!

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SI Poole has had a Friendship Link with SI Kathmandu since 2012 and since the earthquakes last year we have been doing as much as we can to support Nepal.  We have sent funds on several occcasions, direct to their bank account in Kathmandu, and now we are focussing on providing warm hats and blankets for babies.   We sent a small number of hats last month, to see if they would get there safely – and they arrived in just over a week!     That gave us the confidence to continue, and on Friday 8th April a group of SI Poole members gathered to work on sewing up the hats and piecing together the squares into blankets.  We would like to thank SI Bournemouth for contributing lots of hats and knitted squares!   Our sewing session was a lot of fun!  As well as

SI Bournemouth & SI Poole: pulling and planting together to create a haven of peace

SI Bournemouth & SI Poole: pulling and planting together to create a haven of peace

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Ladies from SI Bournemouth and SI Poole made their bi-annual visit to the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) in Bournemouth to tidy the courtyard garden this week. Both clubs helped set up the unit and have continued to work together to make its courtyard garden a place where people who have suffered sexual assault might gain a little bit of peace when they attend the SARC. The garden was tidied and existing shrubs were pruned, spring flowers were planted beneath the weeping cherry tree and hollyhocks and lupins were planted in other areas of the garden.  They will return in a few weeks to plant colourful summer flowers.

SI Bournemouth’s STEM challenge scores success

SI Bournemouth’s STEM challenge scores success

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SI Bournemouth has held their STEM Challenge for the fourth year. The challenge fulfils the programme initiatives to educate, empower and enable with the objective to promote participation and raise aspirations of girls to enter into industries that young women often see as masculine and inaccessible. Teams of five girls from Years 8 and 9 from nine local secondary schools participated. The challenge was to create a solution to a problem which will help people in the poorest parts of the world. The girls rose to the challenge and had some brilliant ideas, well executed projects and interesting models. Judges from the RNLI were so impressed by “The Atoms” project from Year 8 winners they are going to consider it for development; the model boat designed to support Bangladeshi people in the typhoon season was made of recycled plastic bottles and could be stored on

Women in Science – a Formula for Success

Women in Science – a Formula for Success

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To celebrate International Women’s Day 2016, SI Woking & District helped Woking Borough Council to organise an Open Meeting intended to encourage girls and young women to take up science, technology, engineering and mathematics-based careers.  Woking Borough Council also held an essay-writing competition for schoolgirls and the winners were announced during the event. Three speakers made presentations followed by a discussion. The first speaker was Anita Wu, a chartered engineer who specialises in tunnel technology and is currently working on the Bond Street Upgrade Project.  She was followed by Judith Bunting, a chemist and television programme producer, and then by Dr Angelika Lingnau, a neuroscientist from Royal Holloway University of London. All three speakers were lively and entertaining and fielded a wide variety of questions, particularly from the girls in the room. Over one hundred people attended this open meeting, including a large number of

SI Southampton: collecting tools for Netley Marsh

SI Southampton: collecting tools for Netley Marsh

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SI Southampton are collecting tools for their Programme Action work at Netley Marsh.  Tools for Self Reliance empower people in Africa to build viable and sustainable livelihoods through the delivery of technical, business & life skills training and through the provision of tools for their trade.  A list of what is required can be seen in the document below: Tools_wanted_for_Netley Marsh  

SI Bournemouth’s Rod Stewart Tribute Event

SI Bournemouth’s Rod Stewart Tribute Event

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SI Bournemouth are staging a Tribute Evening featuring Paul Metcalfe with 2 course Dinner at the Hotel Miramar, East Overcliff Drive, Bournemouth, BH1 3AL on Thursday 21st April 2016, at 7 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. Tickets £38.00 or £36.00 per person for tables of 10+ from: yvonnefairchild@talktalk.net 01202 759921 deecastle15@gmail.com 01202 390986 click for flyer: Rod Stewart Tribute Event Poster

SI Bournemouth: Ravishing Readers!

SI Bournemouth: Ravishing Readers!

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FUN AND FRIENDSHIP WITH BOURNEMOUTH SOROPTIMISTS WHILST SUPPORTING TWO PROGRAMME ACTION PROJECTS SI Bournemouth member, Sarah Hendey, raised £230 at a book club event held at her home recently. The funds will be donated to the club’s Dhaka Literacy project which is overseen by our Friendship Link Clubs in Bangladesh. They run several projects to help children from the slums or streets of Dhaka to enter mainstream education. Also, the club Environment Group will benefit from the event as they currently support the BeePlus Project which helps children learn about the importance of the role of the bee and the need to improve our environment by creating a good habitat for them. Members had all read the book “I Let You Go” by Clare Mackintosh who kindly sent a signed copy and some bookmarks, the group decided that the book should be raffled at a

Soroptimists in Salisbury Double Bill

Soroptimists in Salisbury Double Bill

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A double bill of films on Saturday 19 March at Salisbury Arts Centre focussing on the women’s suffrage movement of the early 20th century and women’s struggle for the right to vote. is being organised by a group of women who are in the process of setting up a new Soroptimist Club for Salisbury. The first film ‘Make More Noise’ at 5.30pm is a selection of documentary and newsreel footage of the activities of the suffragettes and the second film ‘Suffragette’ at 7.30pm is a drama directed by Sarah Gavron with a fantastic cast of actors.   The joint ticket for both films is £13 and all are welcome. click on link for details: http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b2079d5a8ed14f73b9a18f049&id=d1fe76a9e9&e=e2bacd3b4c