Programme of events for the Club’s 64th Year 2020-2021
While we can’t hold face to face meetings due to COVID-19 we are holding regular Zoom meetings – details below. If you would like to attend an event, be a speaker, or are considering membership, please click on “Contact Us” on this website, or email sistalbans@hotmail.com Guests are always given a warm welcome so please come and meet us – we will send instructions so that you can join our virtual meetings online or by telephone.
For guidance on joining a Club meeting on Zoom please click on this web page www.sigbi.org/st-albans/zoom
2021
Jan to Apr Jane Slatter and Barbara Saunders to chair meetings
Sat Jan 23 – Fundraising Quiz Night on Zoom 7.30pm to 9pm – BOOK NOW! click here for all the info www.sigbi.org/st-albans/2020/zoom-quiz
Mon 1 Feb – Cuppa on Zoom – 4pm – all are welcome – just drop in from 4pm onwards – Members will be sent the link. If you’d like to join us for a natter please click on “Contact Us” on this website, or email sistalbans@hotmail.com
Mon 8 Feb – Club Meeting
Mon 22 Feb – Dr Margaret Ashwell OBE Margaret is a public health nutritionist and she is also the biographer of Elsie Widdowson. Picking up on our theme of women inspiring action and transforming lives, Margaret will speak about ‘Elsie Widdowson- a woman who inspired action in the world of diet and health’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Widdowson
Mon 1 Mar – Cuppa on Zoom – 4pm – all are welcome – just drop in from 4pm onwards – Members will be sent the link. If you’d like to join us for a natter please click on “Contact Us” on this website, or email sistalbans@hotmail.com
Mon 8 Mar – Club Meeting (note 8 Mar Int’l Women’s Day)
Sat 13 Mar – SI London Chilterns Region Meeting/Conference and Celebration of International Women’s Day Zoom 10am to 1pm
Mon 22 Mar – Speaker – Club Member Linda Shall on Sustainability – Linda will share her field of expertise with us
Mon 12 Apr – Club Meeting – Rotarian Fiona Miles will tell us about the work of the charity Global Sight Solutions www.globalsightsolutions.org marking 7 Apr World Health Day and we will hear about the Regional meeting on 13 March.
Mon 26 Apr – AGM
Programme of events for the Club’s 65th Year 2021-2022
Club President Barbara Saunders will chair the meetings
23 May to 6 June – Sustainable St Albans Sustainability Festival #SUSTFEST21
Sat 12 Jun – Milton Keynes – SILC Region Meeting/Conference
Sat 9 Oct – Lancaster Hall, London – SILC Region AGM/Conference NB please note change in date to avoid date clash with the SI International Centenary celebrations in San Francisco
Thu eve 28 Oct to Sat eve 30 Oct – SIGBI Conference Llandudno www.sigbi.org/llandudno2021
The Soroptimist Club of St Albans and District holds Club Meetings on the 2nd Monday of most months at Chiswell Green United Reformed Church Hall, Watford Road, St Albans, AL2 3HG. Doors open at 7.45pm for 8pm start, coffee break during the meeting and end at 10pm. Club Members also meet on 4th Mondays – either at the URC Church Hall (as above) – or out and about at other venues. Coffee mornings are usually a morning in the 1st week of the month from 10.30am to 12.30pm and are held at different venues. In addition there are social and fundraising events.
Our Club’s Executive Officers meet on the first Tuesday of most months – the schedule is on this website www,sigbi.org/st-albans/club-programme/exec/. We are an open and transparent Club and Members’ are welcome to attend and participate in these meetings.
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