{"id":7262,"date":"2026-07-01T13:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:34:40","slug":"july-2026-jubilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/2026\/07\/01\/july-2026-jubilation\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2026 &#8211; Jubilation!  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They include:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Toilet Twinning (Zambia) &#8211; EdUKaid Heshima Project &#8211; Hamlin Fistula Trust<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Educational Bee Project &#8211; Recycling Medical Blisters &#8211; Women, Water and Leadership Project<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Anti-FGM Campaign and No! FGM Safe House in Tanzania<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>50th Anniversary Celebration<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2026\/07\/50th-Cake-110726_2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7280\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2026\/07\/50th-Cake-110726_2-1-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2026\/07\/50th-Cake-110726_2-1-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2026\/07\/50th-Cake-110726_2-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Soroptimists in Woking and friends from far and wide gathered at Sutton Golf Club on 11 July 2026.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 We were celebrating 50 years of community service at home and abroad.\u00a0 Throughout that time we have made efforts to help women and girls.\u00a0 A particular focus is to help those who suffer violence in the home.\u00a0 So it was a great pleasure to present the CEO of Your Sanctuary, Fiamma Pather with a cheque for \u00a31,800 plus the \u00a3382 proceeds of the raffle on the day.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2026\/07\/FP-YS-and-cheque-110726_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7281 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2026\/07\/FP-YS-and-cheque-110726_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Women and global temperatures<\/h3>\n<p>A timely report from BBC news:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gyp1knzzxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why heatwaves hit women harder &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A yellow rose for July &#8211; the universal symbol of friendship Soroptimists have friends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":7263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>July 2026 - Jubilation! 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