Since our presentation at the Winchester BID Network Forum in February, Soroptimist International Winchester club has been very busy into the start of summer.
Members attended the Domestic Violence meetings at Trinity Centre in Winchester and learned of the Council’s VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) initiative which we hope to be a part of during the year.
In May we held an information coffee morning at Rick Stein, taking advantage of their generosity to charities in the local area, by serving coffee and cake to attendees. We were delighted to have 
Mayor Russell Gordon-Smith and his wife Diana attend, giving us an opportunity to tell them about our work with women and girls and local charities.
Treasurer Julie Blackwell said, ‘It’s a great opportunity for the club members to talk to visitors about our projects and create awareness of what we do, the more members we have, the more good we can do.’
Later in the month we had a further coffee morning hosted by Turtle Bay Restaurant in Jewry Street where we were very well looked after. We hope to hold a 
further coffee morning here on 25 August. In the meantime we will continue our Orange Café at Projects, off Kings Walk, and the next one is on Tuesday 25 June at 10am. We look forward to meeting new people.
In June we held a picnic for the women and families of the Winchester Women’s Refuge. It was a lovely sunny day at St
Swithuns School and we were joined and helped by some of the senior girls at the school who talked with the families and gave us their time. We’d like to thank the girls for their support.
Our next main event will be at the Hat Fair on 6th and 7th July so please come along and see us in the Cathedral Grounds where members will be happy to talk to you and offer refreshments.
If you would like to know more, or consider membership of Soroptimist International then please email on winchestersoroptimists@gmail.com