We meet via Zoom to chat about our chosen monthly book, which this month is The Artist. You are very welcome to join us, please contact Mary on 07886469701 to ensure you get the zoom link    

Huge thanks to all who were able to do generously donate.  The total collection from Soroptimists & Whitehall Road neighbours included 90 Easter eggs, 5 others packets of jellies/ small eggs, 39 toothbrushes & paste, 15 toiletry items and 2 baby food pouches. An amazing

   

  Signing up is easy https://thebigplasticcount.com/sign-up/households The Big Plastic Count is open to everyone of all ages! By signing up to take part, you’ll help reveal the true scale of the UK’s plastics crisis and uncover what really happens to our plastic once it leaves

Penny Rushen from SI Stourbridge had great fun creating wonderful items using silk clay with women from our local refuge. Here are photos of some of their creations   They also had  a free raffle using toiletry donations for prizes

The name Soroptimist was coined from the Latin soror meaning sister, and optima meaning best. Soroptimist is perhaps best interpreted as ‘the best for women’. From the founding of the first Soroptimist club in Oakland, California, in 1921, through to the present day where over

Hamlin Fistula UK

We are proud to support Hamlin Fistula UK to help mothers through childbirth in rural Ethiopia. The letter below from Helen Marriot CEO, of Hamlin Fistula UK was lovely to read.   Dear Stourbridge & District Soroptimists Members, Thank you for your donation of £709.00

   In the gardens named in her honor stands a statue of Mary Macarthur, the Scottish suffragist and trades unionist who led women chain-makers on strike to raise the minimum wage in Cradley Heath. Mary Macarthur (1880-1921) was born in Glasgow. She was Glasgow Girls’