Please scroll down for the full programme and keep checking because it is updated regularly… you will also find more details about where and how we meet at the bottom of this page.
Programme of events for the Club’s 66th Year 2022-2023
The Club’s President role will be shared this Club year by Helen Byrne and Sarah Lichman – May to August, Denise Powell and Jane Slatter – Sep to Dec and Barbara Saunders and Katherine Clark Jan-Apr 2023.
Sat 25 Mar – Charity Quiz Night – Homewood Road URC, all are welcome! BOOK NOW! Click here for all the information: https://sigbi.org/st-albans/quiz23
Sat 1 Apr 11am Great British Spring Clean – SISTAs litter pick – we will be working on Lye Lane Bricket Wood, starting at A405 Orbital Rd from 11 am for about an hour. Please go to “Contact Us” on this website, or email sistalbans@hotmail.com if you’d like to join us.
April coffee morning – TBD
Mon 24 Apr – 7.30pm – 9.30pm AGM at Greenwood URC
Programme of events for the Club’s 67th Year 2023-2024
Mon 15 May – Club Meeting 7.30pm – 9.30pm at Greenwood URC – new Club Year – Coronation
Sat 10 Jun – Repair Fair – Greenwood URC – details TBC
Mon 12 Jun – Club Meeting 7.30pm – 9.30pm at Greenwood URC – feedback from Region + ?
Sat 17 Jun – Visit to New Ground Cohousing in Barnet (where one of our Members lives). Details TBC.
Sat 24 June – organised walk details TBD
Sat ? Jun – TBC SI London Chilterns Region Meeting/Conference
Mon 26 Jun – Speaker Meeting on Zoom 7.30pm – 9pm – Nicola from Herts Young Homeless + St Albans Action for Homelessness
Mon 10 Jul – Special Club Meeting on Zoom 7.30pm – 9pm. Our Member Gill Clegg will tell us about when she and her husband worked in rural villages in Zambia for a year 2018-2019. This first-hand account is not to be missed. They are going back in November this year to see what has happened to the projects Gill started and make further investment on the ground. Can you help Gill make a decision where donations will be best spent? Bookings will be by Eventbrite nearer the time. To register your interest now please email sistalbans@hotmail.com.
Sat 15 Jul – SIGBI Day of Action on Climate Change
Sun 16 July – Charity Second Hand Bookstall Harpenden Sustainability Market – recycling books for a good cause!
Sun 16 Jul – Herts Girls Cricket Final TBC
Mon 24 Jul – Pot Luck Supper 7pm – 9pm at Greenwood URC
27-29 July 2023 Soroptimist International Convention Dublin “Challenge the Future” sidublin2023.com Early Bird bookings by 21 Jan.
August break
Aug Club outing TBC – walk or gallery visit
Mon 11 Sep – Club Meeting 7.30pm – 9.30pm at Greenwood URC – feedback from Dublin International Convention
Mon 25 Sep – Speaker Meeting on Zoom 7.30pm – 9pm with Sarah Mitcherson Head of Ridgeway Academy in Welwyn Garden City https://ridgeway.herts.sch.uk/
Sat 7 Oct – SI London Chilterns Region AGM/Conference – 10am to 1pm on Zoom
Mon 9 Oct – Club Meeting 7.30pm – 9.30pm at Greenwood URC
Mon 23 Oct – Club Social evening TBC
Fri 3 – Sat 4 Nov – SIGBI Conference London https://sigbi.org/london2023/ Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 https://www.friendshouse.co.uk/
Mon 13 Nov – Club Meeting 7.30pm – 9.30pm at Greenwood URC – feedback from Region and SIGBI Conference
Sat 25 Nov – Sun 10 Dec – Orange the World – 16 Days of Action to end gender based violence
Mon 4 Dec – Festive Singing at St Albans City Station followed by a meal at a nearby pub.
Sat 9 Dec – SI London Chilterns Region Human Rights Day event 10am to 1pm on Zoom
2024
Mon 8 Jan – Club Meeting 7.30pm – 9.30pm at Greenwood URC – feedback from Region
TBC Jan – Big Interview Day at St Albans Girls’ School
Mon 22 Jan – Judith Leary-Joyce, author of the “Beginner’s Guide to Eco-Renovation” on Zoom 7.30pm – 9pm
Mon 12 Feb – Club Meeting 7.30pm – 9.30pm at Greenwood URC
Tue 13 Feb – St Albans Pancake Race in support of Home-Start Hertfordshire – stewards needed 11am to 2pm
Mon 26 Feb – Social or Speaker Evening
Sat ?? Mar – SI London Chilterns Region Meeting/Conference and Celebration of International Women’s Day
Mon 11 Mar – 7.30pm – 9.30pm Club Meeting in Person at Greenwood URC TBC NB 8 Mar is International Women’s Day
Quiz ?? TBC
Mon 25 Mar – Social or Speaker Evening
Mon 8 Apr – Club Meeting
Mon 22 Apr – Club AGM
The Soroptimist Club of St Albans and District holds Club Meetings on the 2nd Monday of most months either on Zoom or at Greenwood United Reformed Church Hall, Watford Road, St Albans, AL2 3HG. Zoom meetings are usually 7.30pm to 9pm. In person meetings are usually 7.15pm for 7.30pm start, coffee break during the meeting and end at 9.30pm. Club Members also meet on 4th Mondays – either at the URC Church Hall (as above), on Zoom or out and about at other venues. Coffee mornings are usually held once a 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.
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.
For more details about where and how we meet please scroll down to the bottom of this page.
For guidance on joining a Club meeting on Zoom please click on this web page www.sigbi.org/st-albans/zoom
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