{"id":1246,"date":"2013-11-11T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2013-11-11T19:21:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:21:06","slug":"club-sees-red-for-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2013\/club-sees-red-for-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Sees Red for Annual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Soroptimists\u00a0Resolve to Raise Awareness of Modern Day\u00a0Slavery and Endometriosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/09-RedSquareBridgeWeb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1247 aligncenter\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/09-RedSquareBridgeWeb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/09-RedSquareBridgeWeb.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/09-RedSquareBridgeWeb-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1200 Women make a Big Red Splash in NewcastleGateshead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soroptimist Annual Conference 1-2 Nov Newcastle\/Gateshead\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigbi.org\/gateshead2013\">www.sigbi.org\/gateshead2013<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soroptimists from SI St Albans and District joined over 1,200 members from 29 countries of the global women\u2019s organisation Soroptimist International (SI) at their annual Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Soroptimists wore red on Friday 1st November to raise awareness of <strong>Endometriosis<\/strong>, a condition that affects about 1.5 million women in the UK and 176 million women worldwide. Later that same day they passed two important resolutions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Soroptimists to alert young women and girls, health providers and the general public to the symptoms of e<strong>ndometriosis<\/strong> and the importance of early diagnosis<\/p>\n<p>2. Soroptimists to take the lead in campaigning to raise awareness of <strong>modern-day slavery<\/strong>.\u00a0<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Conference was held at the Sage Gateshead centre in NewcastleGateshead, and had the theme \u2018<strong>From Vision to Action \u2013 Soroptimists Educating to Lead\u2019<\/strong>. Keynote speakers were <strong>Jasvinder Sanghera<\/strong> co-founder of Karma Nirvana <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmanirvana.org.uk\/\">www.karmanirvana.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0 on <em>honour based abuse and forced marriage.<\/em> <strong>Baroness Helena Kennedy QC<\/strong> on <em>Women Changing the World<\/em><strong> <\/strong>and<strong> <\/strong><strong>Lady Marie Stubbs<\/strong> on <em>Ahead<\/em><em> of the Class<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Conference-goers used their time together to renew friendships and make new ones, working out more ways to make a difference to the lives of women and girls world-wide.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Byrne (the Club\u2019s Membership Officer\u00a0who lives in St Albans) said \u2018we really enjoyed attending conference in NewcastleGateshead this year. The speakers were excellent and we learnt we were able to share knowledge and information with other Clubs from across our Federation about all the projects we are carrying out to further our aims. There is always great friendship and fun as we join together, meeting old friends and making new ones in our wonderful organisation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The photo at the top of this page is the throng of\u00a0Soroptimists wearing red with the NewcastleGateshead Millennium Bridge in the background<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/91StAlbans2013ConfRedWeb-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/SIGBI_Conf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/SIGBI_Conf-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The photo above\u00a0is of Club members preparing for Conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soroptimists\u00a0Resolve to Raise Awareness of Modern Day\u00a0Slavery and Endometriosis 1200 Women make a Big Red&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,83,82,48,84,12,11,85,13],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-club","tag-endometriosis","tag-gateshead","tag-sigbi","tag-slavery","tag-soroptimist","tag-st-albans","tag-trafficking","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Club Sees Red for Annual Conference | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Club Sees Red for Annual Conference : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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