Identity area
Reference code
AR882
Title
Date(s)
- 1948 - 2002 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
To be confirmed
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
The Croydon Club was chartered in 1927, celebrating its 90th birthday in 2017, and is one of the oldest clubs in the organisation.
Soroptimist International is divided into four Federations: Europe, The Americas, South West Pacific and Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI). Croydon Club is part of SIGBI which more or less includes all the former and current Commonwealth countries.
Croydon Club meets on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month (except August) 19:00 for 19:30. Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are held at the Shirley Park Golf Club, Addiscombe Road, Croydon CR0 7LB.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Croydon Soroptomist Club Projects: Booklets etc
How to .a Guide for Carers in Croydon (1993)
St Piers: the National Centre for children and young people with epilepsy and other special needs (2000)
The Mentoring Scheme at Norbury Manor HS for Girls
Limbs for Life (1999-2003)
Womens Aid (1998-1999)
Westdene Supper Party (1993)
All Work and No Play? (2000-2001)
Women in the Community Award
The Aplastic Anaemia Trust
Croydon Soroptomist Club Project: Dutch Dash 25 - 26 October 1996:
Video, album, negatives, photographs, cuttings
Registers
1994 - 1995
Peace Debate
Various notes, 1997 onwards*
Joyce Stovell, former President
Folder of photographs, cuttings etc
Membership and programmes: various examples
Presidents Dinners etc :
Photographs, menus etc
Soroptomist publications (envelope of 15, national, 1948 - 1999)
plus
The Ancient Olympic Games (Soroptomist International Greece, 2002) (2 copies*)
Croydon Old and New*
75th Anniversary Celebrations:
Invitations, menus, gifts and cards.
Material relating to Friendship Links:
Visits etc: Arnhem, Paris, Mandeville, Tokyo-Azuma, Ballina and District groups
Applications: Federal Way USA; Lagos, Nigeria; Yanai City, Japan
Friendship Newsletters: Arnhem
List of Friendship Links, 2002
Former Friendship Links
Scrapbooks:
London Ontario (closed 1995)
Banff National Park
Santa Paula 1977
Huntingdon Park Area
Services of Thanksgiving
R Margaret F. Adams 1895 - 1983
E. Mary Thomas nee Batchelor 1909 - 1997
Annette Carncross 1932 - 1996
Elsa Cameron 1910 - 2002
Conferences
Golden Jubilee Harrogate 24 October 1984
Conference, Ingleton 1981
Waldorf Astoria Photograph 1956
Benevolent Fund
1987 - 2001 (1 folder)
Minutes
1983 - 1989 (one bundle)
Newsletters
Croydon and District Newsletter 53 -55 (1999 - 2000)
South East England Newsletter 1998 - 2004
Plus examples of Soroptomist, Soroptomist News, International Soroptomist*
63 Residential Club, Bayswater Road, London
Folder of items of interest including ways of raising money to support the renovation and refurbishment.
Development of New S.I.G.B.I Constitution
Folder of notes etc
Venture Club
Reunions 2001 - 6
European Visits
Federation of European Soroptomists, 1958
European Parliament, 1993
United Nations
Miscellaneous notes*
Miscellaneous
Two folders*
Box of artefacts*
Three folders (deposited on 04 November 2006)
Press releases
Agendas, minutes, notes etc (2)