{"id":6877,"date":"2025-04-03T13:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2025-05-07T08:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T08:58:46","slug":"april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/2025\/04\/03\/april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2025 &#8211; Annual General Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Annual General Meeting<\/h1>\n<h2>April &#8211; A Month of Reflection, Celebration and New Beginnings<\/h2>\n<p>April always holds a special place in the Soroptimist calendar. As the last month of our year, it invites us to pause, look back, and celebrate all that we&#8217;ve achieved together. It&#8217;s a time to offer heartfelt thanks and recognition\u2014to the many passionate Soroptimists actively making a difference in our Club and throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p>Equally, April marks the beginning of a new chapter. A fresh programme of events and activities awaits, and with it, a renewed commitment to service, friendship, and positive change.<\/p>\n<p>At this year&#8217;s SI Woking Annual General Meeting, we expressed our gratitude to the outgoing co-presidents and formally welcomed the 2025\u201326 Leadership Team.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/04\/CoPres-MG-2-225x300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Silvia, Fiona and Jennie will steer us through the coming twelve months of the new &#8216;Community and Communication&#8217; programme .<\/p>\n<h2>Fun, but serious<\/h2>\n<p>Following the formalities of reports and elections, the mood shifted to something a little more playful\u2014a quiz, courtesy of the SI Woking Climate Change Group!<\/p>\n<p>The questions were about the plants, flowers, and trees we all know and love\u2014reminding us not just of their beauty, but their vital role in our well-being. The preservation of biodiversity is essential;\u00a0 without that, we risk losing the potential to discover life-saving medicines \u2014like aspirin from the willow tree, or life-saving cancer treatments from the yew tree and periwinkle.<\/p>\n<h2>And don&#8217;t forget&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>May is No Mow Month and National Walking Month!<\/p>\n<h1>From the beginning, women were there<\/h1>\n<p>Discover more about the women who were there at the beginning of some of our most celebrated science and culture organisations:<\/p>\n<p>Royal Academy &#8211; Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser were founder members &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/article\/mary-moser-and-angelica-kauffman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dance &#8211; The Dance Data Project lists female founders of ballet companies 1929-present day &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dancedataproject.com\/dance-data-project-releases-listing-of-female-founders-of-ballet-companies-from-1929-to-present-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Royal Academy of Music &#8211; stories of women in the Academy &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ram.ac.uk\/multimedia\/short-stories-episode-1-women-of-the-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Royal Society &#8211; from the start and ongoing, women have been influential in British science history &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/about-us\/who-we-are\/diversity-inclusion\/influential-british-women-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual General Meeting April &#8211; A Month of Reflection, Celebration and New Beginnings April always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":6881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-weve-been-up-to-recently"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>April 2025 - Annual General Meeting | News | Blog | Events | SI Woking and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Woking and District : Blog &amp; News : April 2025 - Annual General Meeting : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Woking and District . 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