{"id":7114,"date":"2025-12-17T14:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:06:26","slug":"january-2026-golden-jubile-rising-to-the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/2025\/12\/17\/january-2026-golden-jubile-rising-to-the-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2026 &#8211; Golden Jubilee &#8211; Rising to the Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Rising-to-the-Challenge-no-frame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7128 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Rising-to-the-Challenge-no-frame-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Rising-to-the-Challenge-no-frame-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Rising-to-the-Challenge-no-frame.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Woking Soroptimists have been rising to the challenge of helping women and girls for fifty years.<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Our Club started in 1976 when women were really building on the achievements since getting the vote in the 1920s.<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">50 years ago: 1976 was the year the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 came fully into effect &#8211; women could get mortgages just like men<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">During the late 1970s the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement held important conferences about women&#8217;s rights in relation to child care, equal education and opportunity, equal pay and reproductive rights.\u00a0 There were headline-catching protests &#8211; Reclaim the Night for example &#8211; to draw attention to the risks of rape and life-threatening attacks that women face.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Since 1976 SI Woking has supported a wide range of projects, including: Parkinson\u2019s Society,\u00a0Teenage Cancer Trust, Migraine Trust, Health Fair, Rainbow Trust, National Deaf Children\u2019s Society,Woking Alzheimers\u2019 Society, St Peter\u2019s Maternity Unit, National Osteoporosis Society, North West Surrey Health Authority<\/h4>\n<h1>New Year, New Member<\/h1>\n<p>President Sil<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Susan-G-Sylvia-S-Jan-2025.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7138 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Susan-G-Sylvia-S-Jan-2025-291x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Susan-G-Sylvia-S-Jan-2025-291x300.jpeg 291w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Susan-G-Sylvia-S-Jan-2025.jpeg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>via welcomed Susan as our first new member of 2026 at our Social Meeting in early January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>L&#8217;Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Awards<\/h2>\n<p>Five researchers won an award in 2025.\u00a0 Discover more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/prizes\/women-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woking Soroptimists have been rising to the challenge of helping women and girls for fifty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":7115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7114","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>January 2026 - Golden Jubilee - Rising to the Challenge | News | Blog | Events | SI Woking and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Woking and District : Blog &amp; News : January 2026 - Golden Jubilee - Rising to the Challenge : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Woking and District . 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