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Little Big Band Concert.
On Sunday 2nd November 2008 SI Kidderminster & District will be hosting the Little Big Band Concert (CBSO Members) at the Ramada Hotel Bewdley at 7pm. Funds are being raised for the County Air Ambulance and Dial-a-Ride, tickets £12.50. We invite you to come and participate in supporting this event and enjoy the wonderful music of the CBSO.
ASHA WYRE FOREST
SI Kidderminster & District concentrates it’s service work, and fund raising activities,on working alongside Asha Wyre Forest. This organisation is an independent Women’s Charity which aims to help disadvantaged women in the area of Kidderminster to gain the knowledge and skills required to facilitate their integration back into society.
Members of the club are involved with ASHA in many ways: two are Trustees, regular professional support and supervision to the “Support Co-ordinator”, assist weekly at a “Learn Direct IT Course”, provide sewing materials, paint the toilet and fundraise.
Wyre Forest Nightstop
The club helps provide toiletries for this organisation and has a member on the Board of Trustees. Nightstop provides emergency overnight accomodation, maximum of 3 nights, for young people 16-25 who are homeless.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
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November 6th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Thank you President Shirley Bonas for organising a concert performed by some members of the City of Birmingham Sympony Orchestra on 2nd November 2008. We heard delicious light music performed by first rate musicians and raised £1,000 for our County Air Ambulance and £1,000 for Wyre Forest Dial a Ride. (The musicians were sponsored by Mitchell and Butler Brewery).
Linda Halliwell
November 16th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Members of SI Kidderminster & District have been invited to a talk organised by Asha Wyre Forest on Monday 15th December 2008. It is about the effect of Domestic Violence upon children. SI Kidderminster and District members were pleased to accept this invitation as part of the United Kingdom Programme Action Committee project: Violence Against Women - Stop it Now”.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
SI Kidderminster & District are sending food hampers to Zimbabwe. These hampers will be distributed by Soroptimist clubs in Harare to organisations who have been identified by them as in particular need during these very dificult times.
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:29 am
I am the West Midlands Community Fundraising Manager for The Children’s Trust. The Trust is a national charity, providing care for children with multiple disabilities and complex health needs, and we are renowned for our services for children who have an acquired brain injury. By providing specialist education, therapy and rehabilitation for these children, they can lead as full lives as possible no matter how serious their disability.
Although we are a national charity, and we care for children from all over the UK, we are best known in the south-east, where our intensive rehabilitation unit is based. This year sees our 25th anniversary, and although we are happy to celebrate this achievement, we also want to use this year as a means to set ourselves targets for the next 25years. That means developing awareness of our work and the services we provide, in areas such as Warwickshire and the rest of the West Midlands, so that we can provide even more services to even more children.
To help me raise awareness of the Trust and its work, I am seeking opportunities to be a guest speaker at groups such as yourselves, and I would therefore very much appreciate it if you would consider having me along to one of your meetings. I am aware of how well organised the Soroptimists are, and I therefore realise that an opportunity might not present itself for some time, but perhaps you could put me on your potential list for when you next set your calendar of speakers. I would also be happy to go on your ‘emergency list’ if you have one, to cover meetings at short notice, when another speaker has perhaps been taken ill.
If you would like any further information about the Trust, please do not hesitate to contact me, or visit our website http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk
With best wishes,
Stephanie Jackson
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Dear Kidderminster Soroptomists. My mother Edna Astill was twice one of your Presidents, once for your 21st year. As you might know she passed away on January 26th. I have been considering a suitable memorial . I am arranging to plant a tree at Brintons Park because actually there will be none of the ‘retail’ family left in Kidderminster and that will leave a growing memorial on behalf of the family strtching back to William Hyde who began a wholesale business in 1860. I wanted to provide something that would make a difference to some people. One thing might be an amount to help a chold in Africa get an eductation or a village get clean water. It is difficult to know who is the most needy apart from anything else. I then thought , it might be even more beneficial to join forces in some way. Maybe your branch is undertaking some charity work like this. Maybe there was some effort which could take on my mothers name in your branch. I would be keen to hear from you. I would consider it a priviledge if any of you would feel you would like to come to a tree planting in October when maybe we could announce something .
David astill
August 18th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Our club is enjoying a break for August. However, we met at the beginning of the month to consider various projects we want to undertake and some of us enjoyed a lovely outing to Bletchley Park with members from SI Worcester and Malvern and SI Rugby. Back to business on Thursday September 3rd 2009.