{"id":1631,"date":"2014-06-02T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2014-06-02T16:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:59:37","slug":"warsaw-sisters-visit-st-albans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2014\/warsaw-sisters-visit-st-albans\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw Sisters Visit St Albans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Soroptimist Sisters from Warsaw Visit St Albans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Members of Soroptimist International \u00a0(SI) Warsaw visited SI St Albans and District in May for an action packed weekend.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/07-Group-John-Lewis-Heritage-Centre-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"07-Group John Lewis Heritage Centre Web\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/07-Group-John-Lewis-Heritage-Centre-Web-300x200.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were welcomed at the brand new John Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/06-Judy-Queen-Victoria-hat-John-Lewis-Heritage-CentreWeb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"06-Judy Queen Victoria hat John Lewis Heritage CentreWeb\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/06-Judy-Queen-Victoria-hat-John-Lewis-Heritage-CentreWeb-300x225.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>Heritage Centre in Cookham Berkshire, by Judy Faraday, Club Member and Archivist for the John Lewis Partnership. With it being the 150<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the John Lewis business this year it was an extremely interesting visit that was also shared by St Albans and District Soroptimist Club Members and partners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk\/about\/our-history.html\">www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk\/about\/our-history.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"26-tour of St Albans - clock towerweb\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/26-tour-of-St-Albans-clock-towerweb-225x300.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/34-tour-of-St-Albans-Abbey-Group-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"34-tour of St Albans - Abbey Group Web\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/34-tour-of-St-Albans-Abbey-Group-Web-300x199.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>On their last day our Soroptimist friends from Warsaw were treated to a journey through St Albans history with a guided walk in St Albans. They were again joined by \u201crent-a-crowd\u201d \u2013 the St Albans and District Soroptimist Club Members and partners.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend there was also time for shopping and entertainment including meals in Members\u2019 homes on Friday and Saturday evenings, and a final meal in a St Albans Restaurant before heading to the airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/02-Agnies-speech-at-Hilarysweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"02-Agnies speech at Hilary'sweb\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/02-Agnies-speech-at-Hilarysweb-300x200.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/15-Sat-night-at-Helensweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"15-Sat night at Helen'sweb\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/15-Sat-night-at-Helensweb-300x225.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/03-Agnies-presentation-to-Denise-at-Hilarys-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"03-Agnies presentation to Denise at Hilary's Web\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/03-Agnies-presentation-to-Denise-at-Hilarys-Web-300x199.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The weekend was great fun \u2013 lots of chatter and laughter especially when we were all enjoying some lovely meals together. In with the fun was some serious discussion about Soroptimist Projects, such as violence against women, and we were able to share our concerns about domestic abuse in the Polish Community and inform them about the new Polish language domestic violence helpline. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has promised to keep in touch, and our Soroptimist sisters from Warsaw are looking forward to returning the hospitality in Poland in the not too distant future \u2013 watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>The Clubs have a Friendship Link with one another &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/about-our-club\/club-friendship-links\/\">www.sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/about-our-club\/club-friendship-links\/<\/a>\u00a0for more about our other Friendship Links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soroptimist Sisters from Warsaw Visit St Albans Members of Soroptimist International \u00a0(SI) Warsaw visited SI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,115,116,12,60,11,77,13,99],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-club","tag-friendship-link","tag-sister","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-warsaw","tag-women","tag-womens-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Warsaw Sisters Visit St Albans | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Warsaw Sisters Visit St Albans : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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