{"id":5519,"date":"2018-10-29T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2018-10-29T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T18:01:35","slug":"silcagm18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2018\/silcagm18\/","title":{"rendered":"October Region AGM and Conference \u2013 the Impact of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Members of SI St Albans and District joined an action packed <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/\">Soroptimist International London Chilterns Region<\/a> meeting in London \u2013 with the AGM, a\u00a0<a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/votesforwomen?source=feed_text&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCvGKmA4VlMCuZg-W7WqYsYerLPHfxiwJaVIe1AEt8D2FqHYkDsgyJAer5k7Ajz1JpS94vzVhR0SMIbZTnYWMA5iVIcBcZ2_vqliZpGSYqmB5Sfbkz7tJe1XlThBGJ0j0vlxDAkqJs8Kp6wM8rL7KFOotgspymyTQ0QNxrRjc7RbnuJsTsH&amp;__tn__=%2ANKH-R\"><span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">VotesForWomen<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 presentation, a run through nominated \u201cWomen of Achievement\u201d and a panel session on the United Nations Commission on the\u00a0Status of Women (UN CSW). President Margaret\u2019s theme for the Soroptimist London Chilterns Region year has been\u00a0<strong>IMPACT<\/strong>\u00a0and this event fully met the brief!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/files\/2018\/10\/59-Oct-18-AGM-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1789\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/files\/2018\/10\/59-Oct-18-AGM-2-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo above was taken with everyone present and many were wearing sashes and rosettes in the colours of women\u2019s suffrage plus Irene Cockroft and Jen Simpson were in costume.<\/p>\n<p>The AGM was first and reports are sent separately to Clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Our first speaker was\u00a0<strong>Irene Cockroft<\/strong>\u00a0with a fascinating talk with excellent photo images to illustrate\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong><i><strong>International Women\u2019s Day, Now and Then\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/i>This is in light if the centenary of the UK women\u2019s vote and the fact this talk was cancelled in March due to the snow.\u00a0<i>Irene,\u00a0<\/i><em>a member of\u00a0Soroptimist International Greater London, London Chilterns Region since 1997, is an independent exhibition curator, author and lecturer specialising in the history of women\u2019s involvement in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup>, early 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century Arts &amp; Crafts and Suffrage movements.\u00a0<\/em><em>Irene\u2019s inspiration in studying women\u2019s history was her great-aunt, suffrage artist Ernestine Mills (1871-1959) who worked in many mediums including highly-skilled enamel-on-metal. Mills was a founder member of Soroptimist International of Greater London, chartered in 1924.\u00a0<\/em><i>For more about Irene please see this page of the website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/2018\/03\/16\/iwd18\/\"><strong>www.sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/2018\/03\/16\/iwd18\/<\/strong><\/a><\/i>\u00a0Irene encouraged us all to make use of our vote, which was hard fought for by brave women and to take every opportunity to march for women\u2019s rights as the women before us have.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch President Margaret ran through some photos of women of achievement \u2013 submitted by Clubs. The gallery was extremely varied and included Florence Nightingale, Jo Cox, Lady Constance Lytton and our Soroptimist Member Rose Simbo.<\/p>\n<p>There was a panel discussion about the\u00a0<strong>UN CSW<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong>Chair Jenny Vince SI Oxford &amp; District,\u00a0Panelists : Wendi Momen MBE<\/strong>\u00a0S<strong>I Bedford &amp; District, representative of the Baha\u2019i faith at CSW<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Revd Canon Terrie Robinson Director of Women in Church and Society at the Anglican Communion.\u00a0<\/strong>This was kicked off with short speeches by Terrie and Wendi of their CSW experiences and were followed by a question and answer session. Overall the view seems to be that it is worth having a presence at CSW in spite of the cost because it does make a difference to the lives of women all over the world. We also got a glimpse of just how complicated the machinations of the UN is and how difficult the process is in order to gain international agreement to effect change. The message to Soroptimists is that it is vital for us to submit our Programme Focus Reports because this is the ground up information that directs our representatives to focus on what is important and it is the evidence in the reports that allows us to maintain our consultative status at the UN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/files\/2018\/10\/60-Oct-18-Rita-Margaret.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1792 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/files\/2018\/10\/60-Oct-18-Rita-Margaret-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>The day was wrapped up with a big\u00a0<strong>THANKS\u00a0<\/strong>to Margaret Badley for her year as Soroptimist International Region President (it officially ends at the SIGBI Conference in Liverpool 25-27 Oct). Region Secretary Rita Beaumont presented Margaret with a gift. Rita explained that next year the Region\u2019s Executive Officers would run the year between them as a \u201cRainbow Year\u201d sharing the responsibilities of Region President for 2018\/19 between them. Two Members of SI St Albans and District are part of this team &#8211; Helen Byrne (Membership) and Jane Slatter (Communications). SI St Albans and District are looking forward to hosting the Region Meeting\/Conference in Redbourn on Sat 29 June &#8211; so put a note in your diary now!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Members of SI St Albans and District joined an action packed Soroptimist International London&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,163,162,12,60,11,13,99],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-agm","tag-london-chilterns","tag-region","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","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>October Region AGM and Conference \u2013 the Impact of Women | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : October Region AGM and Conference \u2013 the Impact of Women : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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