SOROPTIMIST YEAR 2012/2013
President’s Charity 2012/13: Swindon Women’s Aid and Diabetes UK
May
9 Business Meeting
12 Regional Meeting
23 Dinner Meeting speaker: Roger Mugridge ‘Lights for Learning’ Zimbabwe
23 Breakfast Club (Jenny, Janice B and Jan S)
27 Dinner meeting speaker: Sandra Wylie My Job Talk
25 Dinner Meeting speaker: Lin Williams Domestic Violence Reduction Co-ordinator ( re work being done in Swindon to tackle domestic violence and abuse)
26 Dinner meeting speaker: Alice Byron from Oxfam
14 Business meeting
24 Regional meeting
23 Dinner meeting speaker from Water Aid…. Mark Wickstead.
27 Dinner meeting speaker Anna Keir from NSPCC Visitors welcome
2010/2011
21 April Pudding Fiesta at Jan Sharpe’s house
22 May Jan’s Plant Fair in aid of Swindon NSPCC and Water Aid
18 June Water Aid event at Janice Trethowan’s house
4-11 June S I Swindon Display at Swindon Central Library
9 October Friendship Evening for visitors for the celebration of Club’s 50th Anniversary.
10 October 50th Anniversary Lunch at Cricklade Hotel and Country Club to be attended by the Federation President, guests from other clubs, former Presidents and members of our Club and local dignitaries.
8 Dec Club Christmas meal
29 January 2011 Collection of money by Club in Co-Op Supermarket Old Town Swindon in aid of UNICEF fund for flood victims of the floods in Pakistan
8 March 2011 International Women’s Day. Join us on the Bridge. We are meeting on the footbridge over Princes Street in central Swindon in solidarity with women throughout the world.
30 March 2011 Supper and planning for the coming soroptimist year at President Elect Jenny’s house.
8 April 2011 Indian Bazaar in aid of Prospect Hospice at Gillian Reed’s house. All members and friends welcome.