I was invited to attend the Soroptimists’ charity coffee morning in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall on Saturday 19 January. I arrived with the Mayoress at around 10.30 a.m. to find the Chamber almost full with visitors. We paid £1each for a cup of coffee and a piece of cake, a real bargain compared with what it costs anywhere else in town. These coffee mornings give us the opportunity to meet people not just from those living in or around the Town but visitors from further away. One couple who regularly visit come from Marcham, near Abingdon and they come here as it is a nice and friendly town . Of course, Abingdon was at one time the county town of Berkshire until someone decided Reading was more appropriate and then the Boundary Commission decided to make it an Oxfordshire town.
We stayed there for over an hour and I believe that the Soroptimists raised over £150 which would be donated to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Incidentally, the Soroptimists are an international group of business and professional women founded in the USA. It is the ladies group which mirrors the men’s Rotary organisation.
We stayed there for over an hour and I believe that the Soroptimists raised over £150 which would be donated to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Incidentally, the Soroptimists are an international group of business and professional women founded in the USA. It is the ladies group which mirrors the men’s Rotary organisation.
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