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NEW ROUTES CHARITY – CREATION OF WILDLIFE POND

NEW ROUTES CHARITY – CREATION OF WILDLIFE POND

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      In Spring 2018, Soroptimist International of Warrington donated £114 towards the creation of a wildlife pond for “New Routes”.  Terrie Taylor, a firm supporter of SI Warrington, is shown presenting the Club’s cheque to the group. This charity supports young adults with learning disabilities by enabling them to experience and gain horticultural and life skills. The group is based in Warrington’s Victoria Park, and the pond will give close up views of tadpoles frogs and dragonflies and frogs will help to keep down the slug population in this organic eco-friendly garden.  

WOMEN FOR WOMEN AT WARRINGTON FOOD BANK

WOMEN FOR WOMEN AT WARRINGTON FOOD BANK

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Soroptimists from Warrington held a fun musical evening to raise money for female hygiene products to the value of £120. The products were donated to the Warrington Foodbank.  The Soroptimists had been made aware that whilst any donation is valuable, hygiene products for women are not often donated by the public. Photo courtesy of Jackie Alexander This activity supports the Soroptimist mission as a service organisation to inspire and transform the lives of women and girls world-wide.

STEM CAREER AWARENESS DAY FOR WARRINGTON SCHOOL GIRLS

STEM CAREER AWARENESS DAY FOR WARRINGTON SCHOOL GIRLS

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Soroptimist International recently organised a STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths) careers awareness event for 66 girls from Great Sankey High School. This event is linked to the national initiative to encourage girls to consider taking STEM at GCSE level and beyond. Local companies who presented at the event were United Utilities, Jaguar Land Rover, Liverpool Clinical Laboratories, National Nuclear Laboratory. The event is part of Soroptimist’s mission to inspire action and transform the lives of women and girls world-wide.

SI WARRINGTON SAYS IT WITH FLOWERS – April 7, 2014

SI WARRINGTON SAYS IT WITH FLOWERS – April 7, 2014

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Warrington shoppers opened their purses and wallets on International Health Day, April 7, to help raise more than £80 for Breast Cancer Research in just three hours. Warrington Soroptimists chose to make buttonhole pink flowers to sell to raise money to help fight breast cancer. The Cockhedge shopping centre proved an excellent place to sell the flowers. Many people gave a donation without taking a flower – often because their own lives had been affected by cancer. Read more about breast cancer and the research being done here  

AN UPLIFTING PROJECT – March 8, 2014

AN UPLIFTING PROJECT – March 8, 2014

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Women all over Warrington are digging out bras of all shapes, sizes and colours for SI Warrington. Following on from two successful bra collection projects in the past, club members are once again collecting for Oxfam’s Big Bra Hunt. Some will be resold to raise money for Oxfam’s work. The others will go to Oxfam’s recycling plant and many will end up in the charity’s social enterprise in Senegal. The Frip Ethique project provides life-changing employment opportunities for the women involved. The workers sort and sell clothes, including the bras, to local market traders. IThe profits are also invested in Oxfam’s work fighting poverty in Senegal. British bras are sought after in Senegal where few businesses have the complex technology needed to make good-quality bras. After the Warrington Guardian ran a story about the collection, women from all over Warrington contacted SI Warrington to offer

CREATIVE USE OF INTERNATIONAL LINKS TO HELP SCHOOLS PROJECT IN AFRICA

CREATIVE USE OF INTERNATIONAL LINKS TO HELP SCHOOLS PROJECT IN AFRICA

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A co-operative effort by SI Warrington and the only Soroptimist club in Uganda, SI Masaka, has helped a school in the west of the country. The Warrington club has helped Rwamurunga Community School for several years through contact with someone who visits that part of Uganda regularly. Most recently, our club secretary, Joan Spiby, co-ordinated a project to fill pencil cases with pencils, pens, rulers, erasers etc for the school. However, we then discovered our contact was unable to travel to Uganda this year. What to do? After getting no help from official channels, airlines etc, Joan contacted SI Masaka, Uganda’s only Soroptimist club. The club was chartered in 2011. The Masaka Soroptimists agreed to receive the parcels of pencil cases, which were sent in small batches to minimise cost and reduce the risk of loss. Three of the SI Masaka members then travelled the

FASHION SHOW RAISES FUNDS FOR CANCER AND WOMEN’S CHARITIES

FASHION SHOW RAISES FUNDS FOR CANCER AND WOMEN’S CHARITIES

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SI Warrington’s fashion show raised more than £800 to be shared between Cancer Research UK and the Warrington Women’s Refuge. Working with Tesco and Florentyna Dawn, more than 150 tickets were sold for the event at Statham Lodge. With the focus firmly on women’s fashion, the club hopes the event will spark interest from potential new members. Generous donations meant 12 raffle prizes were on offer, ranging from beauty goodies to wine to handbags and a signed Warrington Wolves rugby league jersey. Those attending were treated to drinks and nibbles before an entertaining catwalk show featuring Tesco employees as models. After a break and entertainment from young singer Poppy Bridge, Florentyna Dawn’s casual collection was on show, offering something different from the High Street. The evening finished with the drawing of the raffle prizes.

SI WARRINGTON JOINS OXFAM’S BIG BRA HUNT – 11 January, 2013

SI WARRINGTON JOINS OXFAM’S BIG BRA HUNT – 11 January, 2013

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The latest collection of unwanted bras was donated to Oxfam’s Big Bra Hunt. Club President Margaret Carr delivered almost two dozen rubbish sacks of bras to the Oxfam bookshop in Knutsford. As well as the more tired bras, donations included a number still in their packaging and bras of every colour and pattern imaginable. Oxfam sorts the bras, selling some in its UK shops and sending others to its Wastesaver recycling plant. Many of the bras will end up in Senegal where they will be sold by Oxfam’s Frip Ethique social enterprise. Frip Ethique provides employment for women as well as raising money to fund Oxfam’s work.

Dickensian Day, Lymm – 8 December, 2012

Dickensian Day, Lymm – 8 December, 2012

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Lymm’s Dickensian Christmas Festival is a highlight of the year in the village. SI Warrington took a stall this year to fundraise for our president’s charity, with handcrafted gifts, decorations, face-painting and a luxury hamper raffle. One member collected five crates of conifer cones which were then sprayed silver and bagged up with cinammon sticks and dried citrus slices to make Christmas decorations ready to be tipped into a bowl for a lovely fragrant display. Members also made tiny teddy-bear stocking fillers, festive headbands, mug warmers, decorative snowmen and more. After the festival the leftover bags of cones were donated to Knutsford’s Red Cross shop for sale.