{"id":1204,"date":"2018-12-14T18:58:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2023-04-17T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:42:40","slug":"bringing-christmas-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/2018\/12\/14\/bringing-christmas-cheer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Christmas Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the 4<sup>th<\/sup> year running, Swindon Soroptimists have presented Christmas gift shoe boxes to the Swindon Nelson Trust Women\u2019s Centre.\u00a0 The 25 boxes are for the vulnerable women who use the Centre, many of whom face hardship and are unlikely to get many Christmas gifts.\u00a0 The Club also donated clothes and winter coats for the clients and Christmas chocolates for the hardworking, dedicated staff!<\/p>\n<p>Using items collected by the members of the Swindon Soroptimist Club, plus donations from Marlborough Ladies Who Latte and Live Laugh Love groups, 25 boxes were wrapped and filled at member Gillian Reed\u2019s house recently.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1203\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1203 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-wrappers-ex-LC-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-wrappers-ex-LC-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-wrappers-ex-LC-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-wrappers-ex-LC-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-wrappers-ex-LC-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-wrappers-ex-LC-133x75.jpg 133w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-wrappers-ex-LC.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Valerie &amp; member Gillian wrapping boxes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Lydia Cardew, Club PAO says \u201c<em>These women have tough challenges. We want them to know someone was thinking of them.\u00a0 We try to make the boxes useful and fun, with items such as scarves, toiletries, and pads \/ pens as well as a Christmas gift, crackers and chocolate\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1200\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1200 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-complete-ex-GR-crop-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-complete-ex-GR-crop-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-complete-ex-GR-crop-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/swindon-and-district\/files\/2018\/12\/Xmas-Boxes-2018-complete-ex-GR-crop.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gillian Reed, Lydia Cardew, Valerie Nuttall and Jackie Webb with the completed boxes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The boxes were handed over the following day.\u00a0 Team member Chessie peaked at the box contents and commented \u201cWow!\u201d whilst Office manager at the Centre, Elaine said \u201c<em>The Mrs\u2019 Santas come to the Nelson Trust to bring Christmas joy to the wonderful women whom we support.\u00a0 Many thanks for doing this year on <\/em>year!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 4th year running, Swindon Soroptimists have presented Christmas gift shoe boxes to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":5034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-112","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bringing Christmas Cheer | News | Blog | Events | SI Swindon and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Swindon and District : Blog &amp; News : Bringing Christmas Cheer : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Swindon and District . 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