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These motivational speakers supported the conference theme of <strong>&#8220;Step Up, Lead the Way&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Two major threads of the Conference were around Violence Against Women and Modern Day Slavery. Michael Kaufman, founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteribboncampaign.co.uk\/\">White Ribbon Campaign\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0challenged men to break their silence about violence against women. Kevin Hyland OBE and a panel gave a presentation with others inspiring us to take action to end human trafficking and modern day slavery.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Clubs throughout our organisation also presented their inspirational projects and<span style=\"font-size: 14.4px\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cardiff2017\/saturday\/fed-awards\/\">won awards<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>You can read more about it in detail on the Cardiff Conference website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigbi.org\/cardiff2017\">www.sigbi.org\/cardiff2017<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>11 Members of SI St Albans and District<\/strong> attended plus the Club&#8217;s mascot Sally Bear &#8211; you can get a taste of how amazing it was to be there by scrolling through the pictures in the slideshow below:<\/p>\n<p>[new_royalslider id=&#8221;8&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>The next Soroptimist Conference will be <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/liverpool2018\/\">Liverpool 25-27 Oct 2018<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; put the date in your diaries now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1,200 women from around the world gathered at the magnificent Wales Millennium Centre on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[362,365,367,364,366,361,12,60,363,11,206,360,51,13,111],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-human-trafficking","tag-katherine-grainger","tag-kevin-hyland","tag-mandy-hickson","tag-michael-kaufman","tag-modern-day-slavery","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-soroptimistcardiff2017","tag-st-albans","tag-st-albans-and-district","tag-viewpoint","tag-violence-against-women","tag-women","tag-womens-group"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Step Up, Lead the Way - Brilliant Soroptimist Conference Cardiff October 2017 | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Step Up, Lead the Way - Brilliant Soroptimist Conference Cardiff October 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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