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Winchester summer begins
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