{"id":5765,"date":"2026-08-24T09:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:40:14","slug":"offering-friendship-to-those-affected-by-recent-wildfires-in-stourbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/2026\/08\/24\/offering-friendship-to-those-affected-by-recent-wildfires-in-stourbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Offering Friendship to Those Affected by Recent Wildfires in Stourbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2026\/08\/e666d399-2c55-4411-9eae-13d48d8c741d.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5766 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2026\/08\/e666d399-2c55-4411-9eae-13d48d8c741d-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2026\/08\/e666d399-2c55-4411-9eae-13d48d8c741d-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/files\/2026\/08\/e666d399-2c55-4411-9eae-13d48d8c741d.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Members of Soroptimist International Stourbridge &amp; District club would like to thank Friendship link clubs and Midland Arden Region clubs who have asked about members\u2019 welfare following the recent dreadful fires raging through areas of Stourbridge.<\/p>\n<p>Some of our members do live in the areas where evacuations occurred, mostly due to the risk from smoke. No members were injured or had their homes damaged in the fires and all have now been able to return home.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to add our thanks<br \/>\nto all those who helped in these circumstances, emergency services, farmers and local people and organisations. We were pleased to know that the Stourbridge community responded so well to this emergency.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to offer ongoing friendship and support, through a small local women\u2019s group of almost 80 years standing, to any women who might be affected by the fire and would benefit from that friendship. Please make contact via direct message or email to susan.roxburgh20@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Members of Soroptimist International Stourbridge &amp; District club would like to thank Friendship link&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":5766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5765","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>Offering Friendship to Those Affected by Recent Wildfires in Stourbridge | News | Blog | Events | SI Stourbridge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Stourbridge : Blog &amp; News : Offering Friendship to Those Affected by Recent Wildfires in Stourbridge : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Stourbridge . 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