Charities Supported by St Albans Soroptimists
St Albans and Hertsmere Women’s Refuge
Club Charity for 2009-10. The Refuge provides emergency accomodation, advice and help for women experiencing emotional, physical or sexual domestic abuse. There is also an Outreach Service which involves the Support team being able to go out and meet women to offer help and advice. Registered charity number 1069612.
Grove House Day Hospice St Albans
Club Charity for 2008-9, 2003-4 and 2004-5 www.grove-house.org.uk Grove House supports and cares for patients, families and friends affected by cancer or a life-threatening illness in St Albans, Harpenden, Hemel Hempstead and the surrounding areas.
Project SIerra - Soroptimist International Quadrennial Project 2007-11
www.projectsierra.org This is the website for Project SIerra “A Family and a Future”
Soroptimist International Quadrennial Project for 2007-11 is a partnersip with Hope and Homes for Chidren in Sierra Leone which aims to raise over £1 million to transform the lives of some of the most deprived women and chidren in the world.
www.homestartstalbans.org.uk Club Charityfor 2007-8. If anyone is interested in becoming a Home-Start volunteer they would love to hear from you.
www.breastcancercampaign.org This is the web site for the Breast Cancer Campaign. Soroptimists in London Chilterns supported BCC with a “Pink Walk” in 2007.