Salisbury Soroptimist Club was awarded the inaugural Bluebell award from seven different Soroptimist Club’s throughout the Southern England area for its ‘Making our City Safer.’
The challenge started in 2021 with a group convention at The Chapel which led to an motion plan by which many members of the local people in addition to elected councillors took half.
Chairman of judges, Hilary Ratcliffe OBE mentioned: “Imaginative, strategic, thematic and very practical. Very much Salisbury focussed but model could be transferred and used in another place. An excellent project working to make Salisbury a safer city.”
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Salisbury Soroptimist challenge group’s Liz Batten mentioned: “We had been delighted that the judges famous how our challenge demonstrated good partnership working – with lead companions Safer and Supportive Salisbury in addition to with Wiltshire Council, Salisbury City Council, Wiltshire Police, the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office, Pubwatch, Salisbury BID, Salisbury Street Pastors and FearFree.
“It has been great to have so many sections of our group working with us to make a distinction to ladies in our group.”
The award comes with £1,000 price of prize money which might be spent on creating and increasing the challenge regionally.
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The challenge included night time avenue audits to examine on avenue lighting, by way of work with licensees on enhancing security and elevating consciousness with sports activities golf equipment and corporations, to supporting an area colleges discussion board and a observe up peer to see occasion.
In recent months membership members have been working with Wiltshire Police on ‘Operation Awake’ to develop a bespoke reporting construction for gender abuse for feminine councillors.
The intention of the competitors was to encourage Soroptimist Clubs to ship initiatives which attract new members, significantly younger members. The challenge needed to be a service challenge with a concentrate on ‘doing’ fairly than fundraising, focusing particularly on benefiting ladies and ladies.
The competitors’s intention was that each one members of the Club had been concerned not directly.
In 2023, membership members contributed greater than 400 volunteer hours, held 35 challenge conferences and 25 members of the Club had been actively concerned. They have had 27 articles revealed within the media in regards to the challenge and have recruited 12 new members to the Club since October 2022.
