{"id":1730,"date":"2014-07-22T17:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2014-07-22T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T16:56:43","slug":"refuge-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2014\/refuge-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a31415 Raised for the Womens Refuge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/20-Refugecheque1415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/20-Refugecheque1415-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The St Albans &amp; District Soroptimists raised a wonderful\u00a0\u00a31415\u00a0for the <a title=\"St Albans &amp;  Hertsmere Women's Refuge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stalbansandhertsmerewomensrefuge.org.uk\/\">St Albans and Hertsmere Women\u2019s Refuge<\/a>\u00a0in the club year 2013\/14 \u2013 even though the Club\u00a0supported 2 charities again this year!\u00a0\u00a0Sara Jackson and Liz Perry, Managers at the Refuge,\u00a0were thrilled\u00a0when the cheque was presented to them by the Club.\u00a0In the\u00a0picture\u00a0in the middle of\u00a0the Club Members is\u00a0Soroptimist President Denise holding the giant cheque with Sara and Liz. Also in the picture is a large bag of tea\u00a0&#8211; as well as fundraising, the club provides tea, coffee and sugar for the Refuge, household items to help women leaving\u00a0the Refuge\u00a0get started in a new home and\u00a0Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Sara and Liz said how grateful the Refuge is for the continued support of Soroptimist International St Albans and District\u00a0Members.\u00a0They gave an update on the Refuge \u2013 there has been a major turnaround in staff in the last year \u2013 of 14 staff, 7 had left and had to be replaced.\u00a0Going forward there will be an additional 3.5 posts.\u00a0 It is Sara and\u00a0Liz who provide the continuity at the Refuge. Refuge Staff are now going into two local schools \u2013 Townsend and Samuel Ryder \u2013 with a programme on \u201cUnderstanding your Worth\u201d, working with children displaying risky behaviour and living in abusive relationships. The women\u00a0they care for are fragile and vulnerable \u2013 often with complex needs including\u00a0mental health issues and drug and alcohol problems. They have 22 residential rooms for women and their children and\u00a0their outreach work reaches 100 women a month. They need to keep 96% occupancy but it has been 100% since January 2014. It was mentioned that there are 275 Refuges in Scotland, England and Wales but 1,000+ animal sanctuaries\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The money is raised during the year from a range of events including the Charity Car Park in Welwyn Garden City <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2014\/charity-car-park-great-result-for-refuge\/\">www.sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2014\/charity-car-park-great-result-for-refuge\/<\/a>\u00a0Christmas Carol Singing at St Albans station <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2013\/shake-rattle-and-sing\/\">www.sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2013\/shake-rattle-and-sing\/<\/a>\u00a0and the bookstall on St Albans market for International Literacy Day <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2013\/literacyday2013\/\">www.sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2013\/literacyday2013\/<\/a>\u00a0One Club Member, Judy Faraday, is an Archivist for John Lewis: if Judy is offered donations for her talks to community groups on the history of John Lewis then it goes to the Refuge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St Albans &amp; District Soroptimists raised a wonderful\u00a0\u00a31415\u00a0for the St Albans and Hertsmere Women\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[31,14,26,12,60,11,51,13,99,119],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-projects","tag-charity","tag-club","tag-refuge","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-violence-against-women","tag-women","tag-womens-organisation","tag-womens-refuge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u00a31415 Raised for the Womens Refuge! | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : \u00a31415 Raised for the Womens Refuge! : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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