Soroptimist International Bath and District

Paul, a volunteer from WaterAid attended our monthly meeting to give us an update on the charity. It’s a charity that we have supported for many years and we save up loose change throughout the year to donate to the charity.

It was a pleasure to hand over £200 to the charity and learn more about the overseas work that they do.

Members from the club met up with Wera Hobhouse MP to discuss possible future events highlighting women and girls, in and around Bath. It was good to learn how the Government system works and how many local organsiations could come together to make a bigger impact. We really hope that we can liaise with Wera and other women’s groups in the future.

Members from the club have been knitting hearts, blankets and baby hats for the Neonatal unit at the RUH.

What lovely colours to brighten up a special place.

Clubs fron the South West regiona converged on Weston-super-Mare, and walked from the station through the town handing out ‘love me, love me not’ bookmarks and holding placards to mark the first day of 16 days of Activism of elimination of violence against women.

We ended up at Grove Hill park where orange and multicoloured ribbons were tied onto the railings and the event was joined by the local MP , Mayor and relevant organisations committed to stopping violence against women including men and children. We wore orange to symbolize the global ‘Orange the world’