SI Nottingham

Saturday of Service

Fifteen members of SI Nottingham marked the Saturday of Service on 10 March by volunteering at the Attenborough Nature Reserve in Nottingham.

The picture left shows us after a very pleasant picnic lunch at the side of the River Trent. This followed a very hard morning’s digging for half the party during which we helped to dig out unwanted bramble roots while the other half of the party were involved in equally hard work cutting down branches and helping to create a ‘hedge’ made of branches and twigs to protect an area used by nesting birds.

After lunch some members swapped over and tried the other activity. The weather was excellent and club members had several chances to spread the Soroptimist word amongst other women who were also volunteering and to the resident guides, Ruby and Claire, who work at Attenborough Nature Reserve and who now know all about SI!

More work of SI Nottingham

Emmanuel House is a Day Centre in Nottingham working with vulnerable & disadvantaged people who may be experiencing problems such as homelessness, mental health difficulties, drug or alcohol dependency and / or learning difficulties. SI Nottingham provides Christmas Presents and last year on Saturday of Service members painted at room at the centre.

Each year about nine of the members provide Mock Interviews for pupils coming up to first job/placement interview at a local comprehensive school

Every six weeks three or four members maintain a Community Garden.

Four or five members assist at the Contact Centre where children of divorced parents can meet the non-resident parent in safety

Annually about a dozen Members act as hostesses for International students at Nottingham University - introducing them to the city and to English life.

The club also supports a local Women's Refuge - providing starter packs for all residents; Christmas presents for women and children. They have also bought a computer, furnished an outside play area and are now re-doing a lounge and showers. 

One School in a box and school tent (UKPAC) for Pakistan will be provided in September.. The club is paying fees for SI Kandy for next three years and Kandy Club is using the money to buy books and teaching for girls in the home which they sponsor. Some of the money for this is raised through a second-hand book stall at club meetings.

For more information on SI Nottingham, visit their website