About Our Club
To give you a little background to this historical club what follows is a potted history of the club.
SI Liverpool received its Charter on 25 February 1927 to become the 3rd club in Great Britain & the 19th club in the world. The founder of the club was Maud Carpenter along with 84 founder members, which together chose the motto “Looking Further”. When Maud Carpenter died in 1967, her family returned to the Club a unique embroidered table cloth which members had presented to her to mark her 25th wedding anniversary. The cloth features the Soroptimist emblem in the centre, surrounded by over 100 embroidered signatures of Club members. It has been framed & is displayed in our club house.
Liverpool City Council gave special permission for the Club to reproduce the City mayoral regalia showing the City’s Coat of Arms. It is attached to a new gilt chain, which was presented by a Club member to commemorate our 75th anniversary. Silver bars, inscribed with the Past President’s names & a silver diamond shaped plate commemorating the first 50 Club Presidents are specially framed for safekeeping & are also displayed in our club house.
In 2003, our daughter Club, SI Garston & Speke, closed & a number of their members transferred to SI Liverpool, bringing with them their presidential regalia. Both their President’s & Past President’s badges were designed to represent two familiar landmarks in that part of Liverpool - Speke Hall & Garston Docks. Today the SI Liverpool & SI Garston & Speke jewels have been attached to the chain to make one new regalia.
We have had the pleasure & privilege to charter our Daughter Clubs: Bootle; Crosby; Garston & Speke; North Wirral (which eventually divided into Birkenhead; Bebington & Wallasey); Ormskirk, St Helens; Southport. Warrington; Widnes & Wrexham.
In 2007 we were very proud to celebrate our 80th Anniversary & held a weekend of events to mark the occasion. We were very pleased to receive the support from not only our daughter clubs, but others in our region, this country & abroad.
In the past two years we have undertaken to raise funds for the Hargreaves Centre in Liverpool (The NSPCC’s flag ship building) & are very proud of the achievement of sponsoring the Sensory Room in the Centre with funding in excess of £10,000. None of this would have been possible without the huge support we received from club members & that of SI Crosby, Ormskirk & Widnes.