{"id":4841,"date":"2023-05-03T17:38:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2023-05-03T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:45:13","slug":"april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/2023\/05\/03\/april-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4849\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Promoting-Diane-and-Kay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4849\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Promoting-Diane-and-Kay-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Promoting-Diane-and-Kay-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Promoting-Diane-and-Kay.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane and Kay as new Presidents Elect 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>April is the time of year where we take stock of all that we have achieved throughout the \u2018soroptimist year\u2019 and we celebrate this at our Annual General Meeting. (AGM) President Jill opened our meeting and this marked the beginning of her second year as club President. At this meeting we install our new officers and Diane Walker and Kay Turner were installed as joint Presidents Elect. Rowena Castillo- Nicholls became our new Vice President. We have every confidence in our officers as we move into the new year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We were proud to know that of the \u00a33,509 raised for President\u2019s Charities during the year 2022-23, \u00a32,248.97 was for Cornwall Hospice Care.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4845\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/cheque-to-Cornwall-Hospice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4845\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/cheque-to-Cornwall-Hospice-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/cheque-to-Cornwall-Hospice-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/cheque-to-Cornwall-Hospice.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheque to Cornwall Hospice Care<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Their representative Carrie was present to receive \u2018the big\u2019 cheque. Programme Action Officer Diane reported that she had submitted 22 programme focus reports on our club projects to the national Soroptimists updated website.\u00a0 This reflects the huge amount of activity across the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the April AGM President Jill welcomed and formally \u2018badged\u2019 two new members. Julie Hobba and Heather George will be a great asset to our soroptimist family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Badging-new-member-Julie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4843 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Badging-new-member-Julie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/badging-new-member-Heather.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4842 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/badging-new-member-Heather-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the month President Jill, Kay and Wendy attended a Friendship weekend hosted by SI Guernsey on their beautiful island. This was a lovely opportunity to engage in a range of activities and to meet members from other clubs. There was definitely some friendly rivalry on the crazy golf course!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Gurnsey-weekend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4847\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Gurnsey-weekend-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Gurnsey-weekend-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Gurnsey-weekend.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, club member Heather returned from New Zealand where she had visited<\/p>\n<p>SI North Canterbury, which is one of our Friendship links. She brought back a card to us all and a friendship token to be placed on our table at meetings. <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/card-and-koru.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4844\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/card-and-koru-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Koru.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4848\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-austell-and-district\/files\/2023\/05\/Koru-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is the time of year where we take stock of all that we have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>April 2023 | News | Blog | Events | Soroptimist International of St Austell and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Soroptimist International of St Austell and District : Blog &amp; News : April 2023 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of Soroptimist International of St Austell and District . 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