This year marks the centenary since some women were granted the right to vote in 1918. Fawcett, a campaigner since her 20s, was 81 when from the public gallery of the House of Commons she finally saw women given the right to vote on the same terms as men in 1928. She died one year later. The Fawcett statue, created by Turner prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing, depicts the suffragist leader as a 50-year-old, the age at which she became president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. She holds a banner that reads: “Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere”, an extract from a speech Fawcett made after the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who was killed after she fell under King George V’s horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.  

  £116 raised – £58 to MIND – Streetwise, Tyneside & Northumberland.  Streetwise offer free and confidential advice, counselling, sexual health and support services for young people aged 13-25 in our region. https://www.streetwisenorth.org.uk/  

What a great day and a huge thanks to President Judy, Shirley and Peter and all those members and friends who donated top-class goods to sell last May bank holiday. A whopping £190 was raised for Shirley’s ‘bit of a do’ as she follows on from current Regional President Linda as President of Northern England in October at SIGBI’s Annual Conference in Liverpool. .

   

                                                                                                                                                            

                          

A popular fair for all the family is returning to Whitley Bay on Sunday 3rd June 1pm – 4pm. Come and visit our stall and find out about our thriving club.  We work to improve the lives of women and children locally, nationally and internationally. Check out our website at the following: sigbi.org/tynemouth The Whitley Lodge Community Spirit Summer Fair will feature a range of children’s activities, music and food at the shopping centre parade. There will be face painting, a bouncy castle and inflatable slide, Test your Strength, Coconut Shy and Splat the Rat, and superhero characters from Hopscotch Entertainment, plus music from the Ritchie Bee Band and dancers from MADD Dance Studios, with a selection of craft stalls, The fair offers a variety of food stalls too and of course ‘The Pimms Van’. Whitley Lodge Community Spirit is a non-profit organisation committed to

RECORDED SPECIES IN THE BRIERDENE WILDLIFE SITE IS NOW 985 – will they make it to 1000 this year? Dates for your diary. The Annual Bio Blitz will be on Saturday 28th July from 10:00am – 3:00pm The Annual Moth Night will be on Saturday 4th August from 9:00pm http://friendsofbrierdene.org.uk/index.html  

IPP (Immediate Past President) of SIGBI Anne Hodgson with Jane Katsambis, Regional Membership Officer and Organisational Development Officer & visiting our Regional Meeting in response to our many questions relating to 'Growing our Brand' and our future as a region