15 / 10 / 2021
Inspirational work by SI Paisley
Purple Teardrop Campaign / Love Me/Love Me Not Bookmarks and Credit Cards.
SI Paisley ordered 2,000 bookmarks with the Scottish Domestic Abuse Helpline number on them, and 600 credit cards which had labels with the Scottish Helpline number added to them.
The following groups were given cards/bookmarks:
STAR project (local women’s support group) 100 cards / 100 bookmarks
Renfrewshire Women’s Association for AGM
Reclaim the Night goody bags 250 bookmarks
Renfrewshire Council 100 bookmarks
Local libraries 500 bookmarks
Women’s Aid 100 cards / 100 bookmarks
Women and Children First 100 cards / 100 bookmarks
Glasgow Airport Police 50 cards / 150 bookmarks
More will be distributed as appropriate.
SI Paisley supported Renfrewshire’s first ever Reclaim the Night walk on Monday 25 November. Members provided support as marshalls on the walk, and manned a stall at Paisley Town Hall to promote Soroptimism, the Purple Teardrop Campaign and Human Trafficking and collected a small number of signatures for the ban sex for sale advertising petition.
The first picture includes five Paisley Soroptimists with the Provost and the second picture shows SI Paisley’s President on the left.