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
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
SI International of Warrington donated money in Autumn 2017 raised through their Summer Quiz to New Routes which is a gardening project based in Victoria Park Warrington for young adults with learning difficulties.
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.
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
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
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 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
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
Warrington’s Soroptimists regularly provide help to a school in Uganda. This year help comes in the form of a pencil case for every child, filled with pencils, pens, erasers and other supplies. We got together for a social night filling the pencil cases and packing
