British Legion Poppy Appeal Sainsbury’s supermarket have been supporting The Royal British Legion for over 23 years, allowing volunteers to sell poppies in their stores for their Poppy Appeal. They were keen to allow the members of the Torquay & District Soroptimist International to sell poppies again this year.
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People Assisting Torbay’s Homeless PATH Torbay are a local charity who assist Torbay’s homeless 365 days a year. They provide essential provisions, advice, support and signposting who rely on donations such as clothes, sleeping bags, blankets, tents, camping equipment, toiletries, dog food, cold and hot drinks and food. Earlier this year Kath Friedrich visited the Torquay & District Soroptimist International. She gave an inspirational talk on the PATH humble beginnings to what they do today with the support of the public. Kath goes out on nightly visits searching for as long as it takes to help as many people as possible, distributing food made by her team of sandwich makers and hot drinks. Everything that gets donated is passed on to people who need it the most and are living on the streets. Some of the people Kath meets are so cold they can hardly
Torquay & District SI were happy to sponsor Josie Crossley on her GOLD venture to Oman. GOLD (Girlguiding Overseas Linked with Development) entails teams of young women from across the UK travelling to eight different countries across the world. Josie Crossley was luckily enough to be chosen to represent Girlguiding UK on the first year of GOLD in Oman. These sustainable projects last from three to five years and the aims differ from project to project according to the host country’s needs. GOLD Oman was primarily focusing on leadership skills, recruitment and informal education and involved delivering training on these topics to girls, young women and even headmistresses in four regions within Oman. The GOLD team have grown as individuals and as a team during their three weeks in Oman. The evaluation on the final day of the project showed the aims and objectives of
Soroptimists from the South West are trying to make a difference to combat trafficking/slavery by conducting a survey to find out the extent of public knowledge about this issue. The online survey can be accessed from www.sigbi.org/ukpac/survey after the 1st Oct. 2017 until 7th Oct 2017, please help.Can you help us and others by filling in the survey and tell what you know on human trafficking and modern day slavery.
Torbay Holiday Helpers Network The Memory Makers – Giving Families Memories To Treasure Forever! The THHN City to Sea events are organised by the Torbay Holiday Helpers Network charity, all profits from the events go towards helping families living with serious illness and bereavement by giving them a free fun filled holiday so they can gain some memories to treasure forever. Recently we were contacted as THHN were looking for volunteers to help run the event itself. Marshals & check point volunteers all along the route at various times & locations were needed, two of our members Jasmine & Veronica put their names forward to help marshal the event which took place on a very wet & windy Sunday in September. Well done to all who took part! Cheryl Rider
Thursday July 20th Interclub Meeting at Brixham There was a lot of noise at the Brixham Rugby Club one Thursday evening in July. No, nothing to do with rugby – the Soroptimists had arrived! The club house is the headquarters for Brixham Soroptimists and they had invited Torquay and Plymouth ladies to join them for their Speaker Meeting. The room was packed ready to listen to John Risdon, born in Brixham, is a well known local historian from the Galmpton & Churston Local History Group. Brixham President, Wenona Pappin kept order with her gavel. (Now we all want one.) She gave out messages and information and then mentioned food! It was delicious and there were seconds! Congratulations to the Brixham ladies in charge of supper – it was a triumph. The evening was a chance to mix and connect with other ladies. There was a
This October Torquay & District SI will be supporting PATH with the Socktober appeal which is run all over the world. Members aim to ‘make a difference’ by donating men’s socks to our socktober collection box, which will be at our meeting room. This is a great idea to bring some clean socks from their husbands, sons or brothers to donate to make someone who is homeless a bit more comfortable. Path get through a lot of socks and with wet weather round the corner it certainly will make a huge difference.
