Programme Action

 

The Programme Action Committee would like to thank the club for their continued support over the past year

 Margaret Luscombe/Penny Strang – Programme Action Officers S.I. Plymouth & District

The President's Charity for 2009 is

Children's Hospice SW

The concert was a huge success, click here for further information

 

Now we want all your old Bras!!!

We are taking as many old bras to Federation Conference in Cardiff at the end of October.  They will all go to Oxfam

Click here to see what it's all about

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The following list is what the club has been involved in during the past year: 

  • Project Pink raising £5200 for Breast Cancer care. This project also raised Soroptimists Profile

  • Library Exhibition  in Central Library in aid of International Day of the Family

  • Library Survey for Regional purposes

  • Support to Love in a Box

  • Food Bank Supermarket Collections

  • Lobbying against Female Mutilation

  • Born Free Campaign Donation

  • Christmas Gifts to Shekinah Mission

  • Christmas gifts for ladies and children of Trevi House

  • Christmas gifts for ladies and children of the Women’s Refuge

  • Tin shaking for Marie Curie Nurses

  • Capitation  funds for S.I. Yaunda paid

  • Recycling of stamps, jewellery, computer cartridges and postcards for Children Hospice South West

  • Recycling of bras for SI. Cheltenham charity

  • Collection of 11kg of old tights for Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia

  • Fundraising social events for ShelterBox – Wine Tasting Evening  –  Jazz Evening – Elvi Shopping Evening

  • Fund raising projects for ShelterBox – Dickensian evening in Tavistock selling minced pies and mulled wine. – Christmas Wrapping Stall in Drake Circus x 2 days - Poverty Lunch

  • Fund raising projects for ShelterBox – Quilt, hand made by Moira Knaggs and raffled in aid of ShelterBox and raised £2000 for this one item - Dickensian evening in Tavistock selling minced pies and mulled wine. – Christmas Wrapping Stall in Drake Circus x 2 days - Poverty Lunch

    Human Rights lunch

  • Trip to ShelterBox in Helston

  • BBQ in aid of Project Sierra

  • Windmills to mark The International Day Of Peace

  • Club discussions on Family Values/Food For Thought + Leaflet/Care Debate

  • Programme Action Speakers – Fair Trade/CAB/Food Bank/Women’s Health

Quadrennial Project:

 Project SIerra

Project SIerra is a four-year partnership between Soroptimist International and Hope and Homes for Children which aims to raise over £1 million ($2 million USD) to transform the lives of some of the most deprived women and children in the world. Click here for further information.

 

 Previous Projects: 

Nepal Project - click here

Putting in clean water and sanitation in a village in Nepal.

 

Pyramid of Shoes - our protest against Cluster Bombs

In partnership with Handicap International we built a great Pyramid of shoes in Plymouth City Centre on November 5th.  Many schools were involved and children came to put their own shoes on the Pyramid.  Every shoe represented a limb or life lost to Cluster Bombs and Landmines, so the children learned a valuable lesson when they found that the shoes were being sent to people who had no shoes at home and abroad.  The shoes were redistributed by the Salvation Army who had also collected them from the schools. We were interviewed on radio the day before the event and people brought shoes as a result of the broadcast.

 

The day was a great success (helped of course by glorious weather!).  We collected 2 tonnes of shoes (approx. 4,000 pairs of shoes) and gathered almost 2,500 signatures. Click here for more info.