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Nelson Weekly
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TUESDAY 1 April 2014
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Women’s service group turns 50
A Nelson service club is preparing to host its 50th anniversary celebrations this weekend, when they can reflect on a significant impact on the city. Soroptimist International of Nelson was chartered on April 4, 1964, when membership cost two guineas. Internationally, Soroptimist International has more than 83,000 members in 127 countries and 32 of those members are from the Nelson group. Over the past five decades the group has remained relatively strong in numbers and still raises and donates thousands of dollars to charities each year. Their most enduring fundraiser is the Christmas puddings, which this year will celebrate 30 consecutive years in action. Soroptimist members make the puddings from a recipe that was given to them 30 years ago from a Soroptimist member in the United States. But their largest fundraiser was Toy Fantasia, which was held four
times over eight years in the mid80s and early 90s. That fundraiser earned them $66,000 in total and the interest earned from that money is still distributed to local charity groups each Christmas. In the early years, members of the newly-formed group fundraised to provide amenities for an occupant in the extension of Whareama Hospital in Stoke and their first international project was to provide money for furnishing a nursery for disabled children in Saigon. More recently, the group has been responsible for the Teen Parent Unit at Auckland Point School, assisting both in financially and in time and man-power in helping get the unit off the ground. Organiser of the anniversary celebrations, Gay Northcott, says delegates from around New Zealand will be in town for a lunch and slide show presentation and they are hoping it will include a foundation member, Joy Anderson.
Members of the Soroptimist International of Nelson group are from left, Gay Northcott, Linda Anderson, Megan Riddell, Rachael Taylor and Nicky Borras. Photo: Andrew Board.
? ? sk An xpErt ?A ? ? ? ?E? “We decided we’d have a lunch and a slide show, we didn’t want to bore people with really long
speeches and history but the slideshow will show the history of the group and what we’d done.”
If you’d like to become a member of the Soroptimists, email Joy at sinelson@siswp.org.
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