President’s message
Welcome to the website of SI Grange-over-Sands, which celebrates its 55th year as Soroptimism itself celebrates 75 years of service.
Grange is a thriving club, being one of the largest in the region with 45 members (of varying ages and representing many different professions) some of whom travel miles from the surrounding areas to attend our meetings. New members receive a warm welcome.
This year is particularly special as we welcome members from each of our Friendship Links (except Winchester) to join us for a weekend of activities. Thus we will be entertaining ladies from Prague, Pori (Finland), Izmir (Turkey) and Viareggio-Versilia (Italy) and developing our collaborations further.
We have recently introduced changes to the way we operate in order to ensure that Programme Action remains at the heart of our activities. Now every member of the Club is involved in one of the six areas of programme action activity (namely, Economic and Social Development, Education, Environment, Health, Human Rights and the Status of Women and International Goodwill and Understanding) mirroring the international and regional structure. The Club is evolving into a more dynamic group even more focussed on the needs of women and girls not only locally but throughout the world. The new arrangements generate continuity and plans are already underway for projects which will continue beyond the current year. Details of our current projects and plans for the future will appear on a separate page.
This year our particular charities are our local CAB and Project Sierra, the International Quadrennial Appeal, for which one of our members is the Regional Ambassador. Our next Fund-Raising Event is in aid of Project Sierra and will be a cafe-style Concert in the Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands at 7pm on Saturday, September 26th. Tickets costing 10 are available from me on 015395 36421.
We look forward to seeing you then
In friendship,
Margaret Dennis (President of SI Grange-over-Sands)