SI Garstang

The Darwen Shield for Programme Work

Annually the Darwen Shield is presented to the club in our Region, who in the opinion of the judges, have carried out an excellent project as reported on a programme Focus report Form.

The finalists for 2006-2007 were
SI Windermere, SI Blackburn, SI Burnley and SI Garstang

And the winner was SI Garstang for its novel way of recycling old newspapers. One of their members is a dairy farmer and she needed bedding for her calves. The Club rallied round by collecting old newspapers which they then shredded. This was used as bedding by the calves after which it was spread on the land as manure and dug into the ground. Pictured left is Judith Grocott, President of SI Garstang, receiving the North West Region Programme Action Shield from Regional Programme Action Committee chairman, Sue Biggs.

In the opinion of the judges this was simple and effective project. 

 

Club's Programme work

SI Garstang are keen to keep up the Programme Action work in their area. To that end there are a number of initiatives underway.

Working in conjunction with the local Rotary Club they will continue to fill aqua boxes.

Their 'Send a Cow' Project has proved very successful and so in this club year they are working on fundraising projects to send another cow to help a family.

The members of SI Garstang have trained as mentors to work in schools and are all CRB checked and are enthusiastic members of a literacy project in the local school.

As you may know Garstang was the first Fair trade town in the world and Garstang Soroptimists have been actively involved in this work and have worked for many years on the thorny issue of plastic bags. The club intends to look into the possibility of producing cloth bags which they can then distribute in the town. Watch this space on this project.

Claire Bailey one of members is heavily involved in Human Rights and The Status of Women and is acting as the Programme Co-ordinator for this area at the Regional level. The club is very interested in the 'Dignity Period' work going on and this is a project they feel they could be getting into in the coming months.

SI Garstang does not, at present, have a website.