Several of our members are currently knitting twiddle muffs. Twiddle muffs are knitted muffs with interesting bits and bobs attached. Many patients with Alzheimer’s, arthritis and dementia find them comforting and therapeutic as they help encourage movement and brain stimulation. Our twiddle muffs are donated to local care homes.
Night Stop is an organisation which provides a temporary, free, safe, supportive and welcoming environment in the home of a volunteer for young people aged 16-25 who have suddenly been made homeless. We provide canvas bags containing emergency overnight items such as toiletries, towel, nightwear, underwear, socks etc. https://www.nightstop.org.uk/
National Projects:
Meru Women’s Garden Project
Soroptimist International Of Great Britain and Ireland has chosen to support the Meru Women’s Garden Project in partnership with Child.org. The project provides sustainable gardening techniques, education and tools to women in the Meru area of Kenya enabling them to become mentors of agricultural sustainability in the community.https://sigbi.org/our-charities/meru-womens-garden-project-2016-2019/
National Projects:
Meru Women’s Garden Project
Soroptimist International Of Great Britain and Ireland has chosen to support the Meru Women’s Garden Project in partnership with Child.org. The project provides sustainable gardening techniques, education and tools to women in the Meru area of Kenya enabling them to become mentors of agricultural sustainability in the community.https://sigbi.org/our-charities/meru-womens-garden-project-2016-2019/
International Projects:
Toilet Twinning – 2.4 billion people around the world don’t have a loo.
Around a third of the world’s population have to use fields, streams, rivers, railway lines, canal banks, roadsides, plastic bags, or disease-breeding buckets. Toilet Twinning raises funds to enable people living in poor communities to have clean water, a basic toilet, and to learn about hygiene – a vital combination that helps end generational poverty. http://www.toilettwinning.org/
We decided to fill empty Smarties tubes with 20p coins to sponsor the building of a school toilet block. In fact, we filled so many empty tubes that we raised enough money to sponsor 3 school toilet blocks – that was a lot of Smarties to be eaten!
