{"id":3456,"date":"2016-10-10T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T10:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2016-10-10T14:32:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T13:32:46","slug":"dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2016\/dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"St Albans Soroptimists are in Dragons&#8217; Apprentice Challenge 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/dragonlogo2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3469 alignleft\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/dragonlogo2017-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Dragons Apprentice Challenge is run by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volunteerstalbans.org.uk\/\">CVS St Albans <\/a>(Centre for Voluntary Service) . Over 80 ambitious students have taken up the Dragons\u2019 Apprentice Challenge this year across St Albans and Harpenden; 11 different teams will compete over the next few months to increase their \u00a3100 start up cash into over \u00a31000 by mid-February. \u00a0There are 11 Teams of Year 12 students from schools across St Albans and Harpenden this year. The launch which was held on Tuesday 4th October and hosted by Loreto College, where the teams were matched with a Dragon and with a charity partner.<a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/50-DragonsApprenticeSTAGS-team1-with-Dragon-Jennie-Redford-Charity-Rennie-GroveWeb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3457\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/50-DragonsApprenticeSTAGS-team1-with-Dragon-Jennie-Redford-Charity-Rennie-GroveWeb-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"50-DragonsApprenticeSTAGS team1 with Dragon Jennie Redford Charity Rennie GroveWeb\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/50-DragonsApprenticeSTAGS-team1-with-Dragon-Jennie-Redford-Charity-Rennie-GroveWeb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/50-DragonsApprenticeSTAGS-team1-with-Dragon-Jennie-Redford-Charity-Rennie-GroveWeb.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first year that St Albans Soroptimists have been Dragons and we are delighted to be matched with St Albans Girls School (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stags.herts.sch.uk\/\">STAGS<\/a>) and\u00a0the charity<a href=\"http:\/\/www.renniegrove.org\/\"> Rennie Grove Hospice<\/a>\u00a0The Club has close links with the school and has\u00a0supported the charity for many years. Soroptimist Jennie Redford said &#8220;I almost jumped for joy when our collaboration was announced&#8221;. The photo from the launch event includes the STAGS team with Soroptimist &#8220;Dragon&#8221; Jennie plus Gemma and Doreen from Rennie Grove Hospice.<\/p>\n<p>We hope our Team will be successful this year in raising funds for Rennie Grove Hospice. Whatever the outcome it will be a great experience for everyone involved in this brilliant initiative. There will be an Awards Evening on 25th April 2017. \u00a0For more information see the website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonsapprenticechallenge.com\">www.dragonsapprenticechallenge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Soroptimist International St Albans and District \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Women Serving the St Albans Com<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Soroptimists-60th-Anniversary-logo-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"Soroptimists 60th Anniversary logo\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/>munity Since 1957<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/president\/\">The Club will celebrate its Diamond Anniversary in April 2017, and this project is a \u201c60 for 60\u2033 production\u2026\u2026..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dragons Apprentice Challenge is run by CVS St Albans (Centre for Voluntary Service) &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[200,201,205,202,31,14,281,212,166,222,12,60,11,98,280,13,99],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-projects","tag-200","tag-60th","tag-60th-anniversary","tag-anniversary","tag-charity","tag-club","tag-cvs","tag-dragons-apprentice","tag-international-literacy-day","tag-rennie-grove-hospice","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-st-albans-girls-school","tag-stags","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>St Albans Soroptimists are in Dragons&#039; Apprentice Challenge 2017 | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : St Albans Soroptimists are in Dragons&#039; Apprentice Challenge 2017 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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