Cancer Charities
In the early 1990’s one of our members started a group for ‘retired members’. The aim was to help those members who could not attend the meetings during the winter months to discuss and contribute to club affairs, as well as maintaining friendships.
To give these meetings a Soroptimist focus for service, it was decided to make things which could be sold raise more funds for chosen charities. The group began by making glove puppets, and then progressed to silk cards. The cards and painted silks are provided by one of our members in memory of her son who sadly died of cancer. To date the group has made over 12,000 which have been sold in aid of Cancer charities. They have also knitted woolly hats for foreign seamen who find the UK very cold.
This service is on-going and provides a great deal of support to the active members of the club