Soroptimist International Tamworth had wonderful morning brightening female shopper’s days and raising smiles as they celebrated International Women’s Day on the 8th of March. Members handed out over 400 bunches of daffodils. Each bunch had a handwritten note of inspiration and a sticker with our details on.
SI Tamworth recently celebrated and presented awards for the long-service of two long-standing members. Betty and Susan have both served as President and have been members for forty years each. Betty, a former headteacher, served as President from 1991 to 1992. Susan who served as President from 1996 to 1997 had her own business.
Last month SI Tamworth had an amazing dinner meeting and welcomed our newest member Fajli Bibi. Fajli spoke about her life and how that has contributed to her work as President of the Global Sustainability and Inclusion Centre of Excellence. In May we were proud to announce that Fajli has been recognised as a global leader and will speak at the Global Sustainable Leaders Summit in Istanbul.
Members of SI Tamworth were joined by Catherine Smith from Heart of Tamworth who gave an informative talk about all the great work they are doing in the community. Members also collected jewellery to donate to their used clothing shop.
SI Tamworth held a quiz night to raise funds for our chosen charities. Thanks to everyone who attended the Quiz. It was a very enjoyable evening. We made a profit on the night of £302.45, plus a promised donation of £20, making a total profit of £322.45.
Lee Bates from Community Together CIC joined us for our October dinner meeting. He gave a very informative talk about the difference between Immigrants, migrants and refugees and how they have been helping them within Tamworth.
On Saturday 1st September SI Tamworth worked in conjunction with Jennifer Ann Hairdressers and Ankerside Shopping Centre to provide free hair cuts. We are delighted to report that donations were received totalling £166.50, which will be added to the charity funds for allocation to local charities. Our special thanks go to Ankerside for providing us with the venue to carry out this event and to the ladies from Jennifer Ann, Jennifer herself of course and the two stylists Sarah and Debbie for all their hard work in providing 32 haircuts! Thanks also go to the Tamworth Soroptimists who came along to help and chat with people – often having to explain about Soroptimism as well, so an exercise of awareness.
SI Tamworth member, Gill Pallet swam 90 lengths for SIGBI’s 90 year anniversary. Other members also rose to the challenge of ‘90 for 90’ celebration including running 90km, learning a language for 90 days, knitting 90 flowers, sewing 90 bags and collecting 90 pairs of shoes for local charities. Members also collected over 90 food items to donate to Tamworth Foodbank.
Tamworth Soroptimists were proud to help in the creation of the giant Mercian flag made by various community groups for Athelstan 1100. We thank Debbie Missfit Creations and Tamworth Castle for giving us the opportunity of to be part of this wonderful project.
Our local Tamworth Foodbank asked for donations of mostly cereal and cordial. We had a collection at our February business meeting and took the items the following day along with a £10 donation.
