Soroptimist International of Stourbridge and District
Women Leading Change is the theme of our 2016/2017 Soroptimist year, which opened with Membership Month during May. We are participating in national cluster workshops to grow our membership over the next few years approaching the Centenary of Soroptimist International in 2021.
Soroptimists welcome all women interested in inspiring action to transform the lives of women and girls around the world through education, enabling and empowering opportunities. Our campaigns over the years have become mainstream, reflect today's women, and our seat at United Nations expresses our commitment to the 2015-2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Work with the Prison Reform Trust, Education to Lead in Nepal, Meru Women's Garden Project, and Paediatric Nurse Training in Malawi engage us as well as local charities within our community.
We welcomed friends and colleagues to a special Membership Month Partnership Event on our dinner night of 18th May, the 65th birthday of hostess Jane Flint Bridgewater and an opportunity to develop partnerships with local educational, health and social care organisations. Potential new members were especially invited. Remley Mann, Principal of King Edward VI College, gave an inspiring after-dinner address based upon Robert Frost's
'The Road Not Taken', following our current Educational theme. Leading staff from Mary Stevens Hospice attended the much enjoyed evening as we fundraised by raffle and donations £1000 for the hospice entering a new development phase. The UK leads the world in end of life care but current audits show how much services, largely charity funded, still need to develop to serve the whole community where they need them at home.
Visit sigbi.org/stourbridge, Twitter @SiStourbridge, or telephone 01384 397565 to arrange a visit to a first (business) or third (dinner)
Wednesday of the month Soroptimist meeting at Hagley Golf & Country Club, DY9 9JW. The June Dinner meeting on June 15 will welcome Mavis Littleford to talk about the Nepal Project.
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules here