President Debbie, of SI Jersey, had extended her welcome to all from our region to their club’s Friendship Weekend from 18-20 September. Details, including the booking form and dinner menu, are being sent to clubs.
The new website is being developed over the next 2 months, and will be a vibrant shop-window for our organisation. As a region, we are using the group photo that we took in March 2025 as our main image. Do we want to take an updated version of this? Or use something else? Maybe, use the sunflowers that we have as our banner on Facebook?
IPP Ruth Healey gave a detailed update on the new SIGBI website being developed. It will be made in WordPress, like previous versions of the website, but will be brand new. As such there will be no transfer of previous material into the new club and regional pages, although the current version will be frozen and accessible for a certain length of time. It’s a chance to sweep clean our website pages and make sure we are using them as a vibrant shop window for prospective members and collaborative partners! The development of the new website will include training sessions for all club comms officers, and short ‘how to’ videos that will accessible via The Hub. We will be loading new material into club and region websites in Sep-Oct this year, so will have some time over the summer to take some engaging photographs to
My Sisters’ House was pleased to take any unused toiletry items that the region donated, at the regional meeting today. There was a table to collect these items, and our speaker Marcia Nguyen took them after the event. You can be assured that they will go to women in need in the local area. Many thanks for your donations.
The deadline to register for the next regional meeting is next Friday 29 May 2026. Please email: SISolentEast@gmail.com to reserve your space. The full flyer for the event, with the timetable and speaker bios, is saved in the Members’ Area, as usual. The report from the RMT to the regional meeting will also be saved in that area. We look forward to seeing you at Wickham Park Golf Club on Saturday 13 June.
During April there was some progress on the potential transfer of Channel Islands clubs, Guernsey and Jersey, to Southern England region. The key points are: SI Guernsey and SI Jersey want to move into our region, and we are happy to have them; This is on track to happen from the next regional year starting in November 2026; We will gain about 60 members for the region, and a wealth of PAC projects; We will need to support them in the costs of airfares for attending regional meetings, but can take a phased approach to this, starting with £4 extra on the regional levy for next regional year (so it goes from £6 to £10 for November 2026); It will take a few years to settle down but we expect to need to increase the regional levy by an extra £4 each year for a
The next SI Southern England Region Meeting will be held on Saturday 28 March 2026, hosted by SI Winchester at Petersfield Golf Club. Address: Petersfield Golf Club, Tankerdale Lane, Liss, Hampshire GU33 7QY You will find the registration details and the programme for the day below: Speakers and registration Programme timings Workshop club submissions
New Faces, New Ideas is the regional theme for 2025-2026. It reflects the changes in the make-up of the Regional Management Team, and the potential for changes in how the region is run. Added to those pictured at the AGM, there are Bobbie and Olein who will be leading PAC for the region. They had hoped for a third helper on their team, so if that’s you, please get in touch. We look forward to an inspirational year, with meetings hosted by Winchester, Solent East and Weybridge during 2026.
The menu for the regional party at conference has been confirmed. This will be held in a private dining area of the conference centre, on Saturday night 1 November. We look forward to seeing as many of the regional members attending, and their guests, at this event. Look out for a personal email invitation, and payment details.
On Sunday 14 September we held our regional meeting, hosted by SI Woking at Pine Ridge Golf Club. The meeting included our 58th Annual General Meeting. We said thank you to Kay, Sue and Julie who stepped down from their current roles in the Regional Management Team. We welcomed Kate, Alison, Cathy and Julie (back again!) to the RMT for 2025/26, and took our photo for the change of insignia at conference. We hope to welcome a small group to act as PAC for region shortly too (Bobbie, Olein +OneOther?).
