CLUB BULLETIN SI POOLE

SEPTEMBER 2017

Quiz

Our next meeting will be on Monday 11th September at Salterns Hotel at 7.30pm. Our speaker will be Tricia Marlow from Bees Abroad . Their strap line is Relieving poverty through Beekeeping. As many of you know beekeeping is close to the hearts of more than one of our members! The aim of Bees Abroad is to provide education and technical advice in beekeeping and the relevant business skills. They are particu-larly keen to ensure that their intervention provides long term potential financial security. This should be a fascinating talk . As usual supper in the bar from 6.15pm—see you there! 'Please start to collect up pre-loved men's ties! These will be used by

the Purple Community Fund to make items such as glasses cases and waistcoats. The items are made by human trafficking survivors, giving them a skill and an income. Please bring ties to the 5th October

conference at The Lighthouse where there will be a collecting box. Alternatively, Jane Walker, founder and CEO of Purple Community Fund, is our speaker at our Charter Dinner so it'd be fine to bring them along then too. Many thanks , Liz Rodgers

CHARTER DINNER 16th OCTOBER 2017

Invitations have all gone out—

please shout if you haven’t received yours!

Last year’s event at Poole Yacht Club was a great success with

excellent food, lovely surroundings and of course

fantastic company! .

Jane Walker from the Purple Community Fund is our guest

speaker and will I am sure entertain us thoroughly as well as

giving us some more food for thought.

Birthdays

No September birthdays, but Jane

and Mary both celebrated theirs in

August - belated birthday wishes

to you both.

As always, we welcome guests at our meetings, so please let me know if you would like to bring anyone along on Monday. Thank you, Helen.

We have been out and about in

our ‘quiet’ month and a half Lots

of fun …..and lots of good works—

just how it should be !

This edition of the bulletin

combines photos of what we have

been up to with lots of information

on what is coming up.

Those of you who know Gra-ham Starr from Poole Lions will be sad to know that his lovely wife Sylvia died

suddenly on 15th August at Forest Holme. Her funeral is on Tuesday 12 September 2017 at 1:00 at St Johns Church, Broadstone followed by a private family committal at Poole Crematorium. Donations to Forest Holme can be made via the Tapper Funeral Service website.

What we have been up to

Some people just went shopping!

Ana and Julie went to ASDA to spend the money which we raised from our recent raffle for AOK rucksacks. They both had great fun—as you can see—and made a special effort to buy matching items for their start up packs. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to the raffle and to Julie and Ana for the time they gave to shopping. Ana has been trying to get to AKA rucksacks to deliver the items but they have been on holiday.

COFFEE MORNING JULY 23rd

There was a fantastic turnout at Carol’s house and everyone was very generous with

contributions and—looking at the photo! - portions!

This is an extract from Mar’s email to us all.

“I am delighted to say that we made a grand

total of £360 !! As you know the money raised

will pay for more bras to be shipped onwards on

their journey to Mozambique, El Salvador and

Uganda.

£360 will enable us to ship over 70 kilos of bras,

roughly 1000 bras, enough to set up 10 more

survivors of sex trafficking in their own small bra

selling business. This will earn them a decent

living wage and by taking them out of poverty,

will keep them safe from being re-trafficked.”

'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players' . Julie, Jane and Liz were in the audi-ence ’ when Brownsea Open Air Theatre put on ‘As you Like It’ in July and August - and Alison backstage in charge of the amazing props. Clearly a lovely summer evening!

WIMBORNE ST GILES AFTERNOON TEA

The Enjoyment theme continues !

A magnificent £500 + profit was realised last Sunday at Wimborne St Giles.

Really generous donations of excellent cakes and other goodies means that our

charity fund is now more healthy. Everyone’s individual contributions on the

day were really appreciated—too many to name. There were many

compliments on our welcome and also—crucially—the quality of the cakes and

other food which was provided! Well done and thank you so much to everyone

for time , organisation, culinary expertise and being wonderful people. We were

delighted to see friends from other organisations who also came to help and

support us. Looking forward to next year!

In the back room doing the

preparation.

Incognito (?) in another

corner setting up the

tombola stall.

Everything under control?

Those in the power house—

washing up and making and

serving endless tea and coffee!

REQUESTS / INFORMATION and DETAILS from MEMBERS

.

EVENTS COMING UP— Can you support / take part/ help?

Note these dates in your diary:

September 15th Wimborne

Queen Elizabeth School Wimborne Rotary Fashion Show

( See additional note) October Week 1

Online survey on Human Trafficking. October 5th am

Lighthouse Poole Conference on Modern Slavery and Human

Trafficking October 6th 2.30

Book Club All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Douerr

Marion’s house October 7th 7pm

Broadstone Gully’s Place Quiz St John’s Church

Broadstone ( see attachment )

October 8th Bournemouth

SI Bournemouth water station at the Bournemouth Half Marathon, Volunteers

wanted—please ask for details at Club Meeting. November 10th

Poole Street collection day for Poole Christmas parcels

fund ( see separate note)

November 25th Poole Falkland Square

Poole Safer Partnership Domestic Abuse Awareness event ( More in next bulletin.)

Saturday 9th December The Minster Wimborne

PTC Fund Raiser, Broadstone Community Band, Wimborne Minster, 7.30pm,

FROM HELEN

I am looking for volunteers to be

at our publicity table at the

Wimborne Rotary fashion show, Friday 15th

September at Queen Elizabeth's School

Wimborne. You get in free of charge - come at

about 5.45 to set up the display - and as well as

talking about SI Poole to the ladies there, you can

see the fashion show. It's a good excuse to dress

up and get out to see what Fab Frocks, Beach &

Body and Ronnie Morgan are showing this season.

Email me or chat on Monday.

FROM PAULINE

Dear Members, if you would like to help make up a table of 6 for Gully’s Place quiz on 7th October, (see flyer) please let Jackie know asap, as this event is very popular and tends to fill up quickly. I already have a table of 6 friends going, so – let the battle commence!

FROM JUDY

Poole Christmas Parcels Fund The Street Collection Day will be on Friday

November 10th at the ASDA store Poole

between 8am and 2pm I know many people

have helped before and look forward to

being alongside you again .

Online survey on Human Trafficking Awareness.

Ana has been heavily involved with this and

would like you to take tme to look at the

instructions on the PDF sheet which is attached to

the September Bulletin. More information at the

September 11th meeting .

AND FINALLY some information which doesn't really fit in to other sections.

Club Auditor/Reviewer - please read very carefully and consider whether you can help

From Jane Club Treasurer

We have struggled to find someone to replace Ray Baldachinno who kindly examined our annual accounts free of charge for many years. At the executive meeting on Monday it was mentioned that at least one other Soroptimist club uses their own member (s) to review the accounts. The executive committee agreed to raise this idea with the club for discussion for our own accounts. If this proposal was agreed we would be seeking a volunteer (s) from anyone who felt able to be a reviewer.

A short summary of a guideline to carrying out an examination is given below:

Receive accounts and working papers

Scan the accounts for obvious errors

Confirm last year’s figures agree to signed accounts

Check totals from cash books have been transferred to trial balance and accounts correctly

Review lead schedules, e.g. bank reconciliation and other balance sheet item and agree to rec-ords and accounts

Check a sample of receipts and payments to underlying documentation

The reviewer will sign the following statement:

‘I have examined the financial statements on pages 1 to 3 of SI of Poole. In my opinion they are properly drawn up and are in agreement with the books and records of the club.’

Signed and dated.

There is a fairly quick turnaround as the accounts have to be prepared after the year end which is the last day of

February and they need to be reviewed and signed off in time to be circulated for the AGM. As an estimate I would say we would be asking for the accounts to be reviewed over the second or third week in March.

The current year is likely to be a quiet year and so it would be a good year to begin with. Jane will bring last year’s file which was given to Ray to the meeting on Monday 11th September.

As the term ‘audit’ had professional regulations/responsibilities it is proposed that we come up with a different term to auditor. Something like reviewer may be more appropriate. Certainly similar organisations to ours have gone down this route .

TREASURER’s REPORT

Bank balances as at 31st August 2017

£

General Account

Balance b/f 30/06/2017 1410.44

Bankings: Linked member fee for attending meeting 12.00

Payments:

Salterns Hotel : Room Hire for June meeting -50.00

SIGBI conference registration fee for voting member -162.00

Balance c/f 31/08/2017 1210.44

Charity Account

Balance b/f 30/06/2017 159.33

Bankings: Raffle for AOL Rucksack 44.00

Donation for Out of Afrika summer food parcel 15.00

Donation 10.00

Carol's coffee morning 365.00

Payments:

Good purchased with raffle proceeds for AOL Rucksack -44.00

Donation to Out of Afrika for summer food parcel -15.00

Out of Afrika direct debit July and August -40.00

Purple Teardrop Campaign (proceeds of coffee morning for bra shipping costs) -365.00

Balance c/f: 31/08/2017 129.33

HSBC Business Manager Account

Balance b/f 30/06/2017 3891.17

Interest received: 0.26

Balance c/f: 31/08/2017 3891.43