{"id":5257,"date":"2018-07-10T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T10:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2018-07-10T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T11:14:49","slug":"hhg18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2018\/hhg18\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimists Successful Partnership with Harpenden Lions for the Highland Gathering Raffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>St Albans and District Soroptimists supported the Harpenden Lions at the annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpenden-lions.co.uk\/fundraising\/highland-gathering\/\">Harpenden Highland Gathering<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>selling the Prize Draw Charity Raffle tickets. This is a partnership arrangement where Soroptimists share the workload with Harpenden Lions to great effect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/234-Highland-Gathering-Sorop-Team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5263\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/234-Highland-Gathering-Sorop-Team-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/234-Highland-Gathering-Sorop-Team-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/234-Highland-Gathering-Sorop-Team-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/234-Highland-Gathering-Sorop-Team-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/234-Highland-Gathering-Sorop-Team.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pictured here are Soroptimists Debbie Tankard, Catherine Moore, Denise Powell, Club Mascot Sally Bear (of course!) and Jane Slatter &#8211; just part of the team of volunteers who worked through the day selling tickets to win 25 great prizes with a value of almost \u00a31000! It was a beautiful (if very hot!) day and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves doing good while having a good time \u2013 what perfect partnership work!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/233-Highland-Gathering-Sally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5262\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/233-Highland-Gathering-Sally-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/233-Highland-Gathering-Sally-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/233-Highland-Gathering-Sally.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charities benefiting from this event are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Harpenden Lions Club charities, including the Life Skills Programme in local schools<\/b>. \u00a0See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpenden-lions.co.uk\/services\/schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpenden-lions.co.uk\/services\/schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skills<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rennie Grove Hospice Care<\/strong>\u00a0is a charity providing care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness and their families. Every year through their 24\/7 Hospice at Home service, Family Support services and the range of Day Services at Grove House they give thousands of patients the choice to stay at home, surrounded by their families and friends.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.renniegrove.org\/\">http:\/\/www.renniegrove.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The National Deaf Children\u2019s Society<\/strong>\u00a0is the leading charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndcs.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.ndcs.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Albans and District Soroptimists supported the Harpenden Lions at the annual\u00a0Harpenden Highland Gathering\u00a0selling the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,14,25,44,258,259,343,342,429,428,427,12,60,11,206,13,111,99],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-charity","tag-club","tag-events","tag-harpenden","tag-harpenden-lions","tag-highland-gathering","tag-jane-sadler","tag-life-skills","tag-national-deaf-childrens-society","tag-ndcs","tag-rennie-grove","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-st-albans-and-district","tag-women","tag-womens-group","tag-womens-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Soroptimists Successful Partnership with Harpenden Lions for the Highland Gathering Raffle | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Soroptimists Successful Partnership with Harpenden Lions for the Highland Gathering Raffle : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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