{"id":5130,"date":"2026-06-05T07:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tamworth\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:25:43","slug":"may-dinner-meeting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tamworth\/2026\/06\/05\/may-dinner-meeting-3\/","title":{"rendered":"May Dinner Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Sans, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The speaker at our May Dinner Meeting was Caroline Marshall, daughter of Joint President Barbara.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5131\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tamworth\/files\/2026\/06\/202605-Speaker_May_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5131\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tamworth\/files\/2026\/06\/202605-Speaker_May_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R &#8211; Caroline Marshall; Jt President Barbara; Jt President Gill; Jt President Chris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Sans, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Caroline spoke enthusiastically and knowledgeably about the other services and projects that Amazon deliver. These included their Amazon Web Services (AWS), their satellite network\u00a0which provides access to the internet for users in remotes areas and their sustainability projects.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Sans, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">In the UK they have a thriving STEM project for children and adults <span style=\"color: #464649\">(<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.co.uk\/impact\/community\/stem-education\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.co.uk\/impact\/community\/stem-education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #464649\">) <\/span>and also provide upskilling and training options and grants <span style=\"color: #464649\">(<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.co.uk\/workplace\/upskilling\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.co.uk\/workplace\/upskilling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #464649\">)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Sans, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The presentation included the many aspects of the Amazon business, how it got its name, and its humble beginnings in his family garage selling books from a family garage to becoming the global company it is today.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Sans, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Members were amazed about the different areas, services and projects Amazon are involved in and admired its commitment to staff training and innovation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The speaker at our May Dinner Meeting was Caroline Marshall, daughter of Joint President Barbara&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":5131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5130","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>May Dinner Meeting | News | Blog | Events | SI Tamworth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Tamworth : Blog &amp; News : May Dinner Meeting : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Tamworth . 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