Contact the Elderly
This is one of our on-going Service Projects of which we have been actively involved since the first one was set up in 1974, and yes it was begun by a Soroptimist.
Contact the Elderly is a national charity, founded in 1965 and made up of numerous small groups around the UK. One Sunday a month volunteers use their cars to take elderly house-bound people on regular visits to host’s homes for tea.
Currently there are five contact groups in Southampton giving service to 40 elderly guests. Members of our Club are amongst the team of volunteers serving as Area Organiser, Group Leader, Drivers, Helpers and Hosts. In addition each December all the members of our Club are involved in organising a Christmas Tea Party which includes singing Christmas Carols for the elderly guests, their drivers and helpers and to which the Mayor or Southampton is a regular guest.
