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

So much ACTION, local and international, supporting our charities, lobbying, creativeness  and of course friendship and fun.                                                                                                                            

Club members Cynthia Bartley & Louise Bower and the newly formed group of girls from WBHS plan together their first step in what hopes to be programme action within our local community – support for Harbour Refuge.          

Of course we are good girls!!! – we are SOROPTIMISTS and FUN and PROGRAMME ACTION are at the heart of our values to ENABLE, EMPOWER and EDUCATE, so why not join them together in a fun-filled night at our local JAM JAR cinema to raise funds for our President’s Charities – MIND  and MANZINI YOUTH PROJECT in Swaziland. A huge thank-you to all our members, friends, relatives and all those who helped make this such a success! SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR!! – FILM RECOMMENDATIONS NEEDED!

A scheme where police officers give a cuddly toy to young children they meet during their daily patrols has been expanded across the North East. The ‘Trauma Teddies’ scheme was launched in September 17 but was started as a pilot operation that just covered part of Newcastle. It involved knitted teddy bears being stored in patrol cars of response officers so that they can hand it to young children they meet when responding to incidents. They could be handed to children who were involved in a road traffic collision or to a young child who had gone missing. Now the decision has been made to expand the pilot forcewide so patrol cars in Gateshead, Sunderland, North Tyneside and Northumberland will carry ‘Trauma Teddies’. Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, said: “I very much welcome this initiative to Northumbria. It recognises the effect

Colourful Soroptimists ready for the off uniting together to raise awareness that our society should not tolerate violence against women in any form. Off we go....men, women, girls, boys and a few of our four legged friends!