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7 / 6 / 2015
Latest Lobby Update
The lobby against sex for sale advertising is still going strong.
View the latest Progress Report and Signatures Bar Chart.
4 / 5 / 2015
Aviva Vote
The success of SI Poole’s bid for an Aviva Community Fund grant depends on the outcome of the public vote. A big thank you to everyone who voted for our Loves Me Loves Me Not project. We will know the result at the end of June.
About Loves Me Loves Me Not
We are running a project to educate people in Dorset – particularly young people – about healthy relationships and respect. We also want to raise awareness of grooming and trafficking. A key part of the project will be a competition for school students in years 8-10 to develop printed materials, videos or mobile phone apps to inform themselves and their peers about this subject.
We need money for competition packs, which will be distributed online and as printed packs, and also for prizes for the winners in each category.
We have printed materials available already and they are in need of updating, so we also need money for reprinting them. Our aim will also be to obtain the PHSE Association’s Quality Assurance mark for the items. This will encourage more schools across the UK to use such items for relationship education.
3 / 4 / 2015
SI Medway ‘Open your Eyes’ Human Trafficking Conference
On Thursday 25 June 2015 Medway Soroptimists are holding a Human Trafficking Conference in conjunction with Kent and Medway Police. They are inviting representatives from businesses, organisations, statutory agencies, health and education etc to come and be informed so as to then be able to cascade the information on to their frontline staff who are probably coming into contact with traffickers and victims in their day to day work/lives without realising it.
For more information email SI Medway.
3 / 4 / 2015
Independent Review of Overseas Domestic Workers
The Home Secretary has called for an independent review of the Overseas Domestic Workers Visa.
An invitation to contribute to the review is here. Written evidence is required by 31 May 2015 and you should indicate by 24 April 2015 if you wish to attend a regional evidence discussion forum.
3 / 4 / 2015
Latest Lobby Progress Report
Thank you to everyone who’s been lobbying to ban sex for sale advertising on Purple Teardrop Campaign’s behalf. Our petition now has 34,756 signatures thanks to you.
Our latest Progress Report brings you up-to-date not only with the lobby but also all the recent awareness raising and fund-raising by our supporters. We hope you find our March post-code bar chart of interest too.
A big thank you and a Happy Easter from us all at the Purple Teardrop Campaign.
29 / 3 / 2015
Congrats UKC Against Human Trafficking
UKC Against Human Trafficking raised awareness of human trafficking at the University of Kent (Canterbury) Refreshers event and signed up more than 60 students to their cause. The Purple Teardrop Campaign was delighted to provide posters and leaflets to support this successful event.
UKC Against Human Trafficking subsequently held a fund-raising pub quiz at Woody’s Bar on the university campus and donated some of the monies raised to the Purple Teardrop Campaign. A big thank you to all concerned from the Purple Teardrop Campaign team both for your donation and for the signatories to our lobby to ban sex for sale advertising. Many congratulations on your work.
28 / 3 / 2015
SI Heswall £600 Donation
Sincerest thanks from all at the Purple Teardrop Campaign team to the President and members of SI Heswall who have donated a very generous £600 to the Purple Teardrop Campaign.
Pictured left to right are Angela Murphy; Anne McDonald; Jenny Wilson; Heidi Hughes.
28 / 3 / 2015
SI Jersey IWD Breakfast
Congratulations Jersey Soroptimists on collecting over 100 signatures for the Purple Teardrop Campaign lobby against sex for sale advertising at the very well attended IWD Women’s Refuge Breakfast. Every signature counts so sincere thanks to SI Jersey from all the team at the Purple Teardrop Campaign.
3 / 3 / 2015
SI Barnstaple partners with the NFU
SI Barnstaple has announced its partnership with the National Farmers Union regarding the raising of awareness of human trafficking. NFU members are on the frontline to notice if anything out of the ordinary is occurring in the countryside.
The NFU has agreed to publicise the need for vigilance in the countryside by way of their monthly magazine which goes to 10,000 farm businesses in the South West, or via their email newsletter which goes to over 5,000 businesses.
Jenny Arnold and Irene Hockin provided a hundred Purple Teardrop Campaign leaflets plus a number of SI Barnstaple’s cards with the Crimestoppers number on them to the Barnstaple office of the NFU.
3 / 3 / 2015
Soroptimist Scottish Conference
On 25th April, Scottish Soroptimists are holding a conference on ‘Women Working Together to Change Lives.’
The afternoon sessions focus on human trafficking with speakers:
Rhoda Grant MSP – Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Major Anne Read – Salvation Army Anti-Human Trafficking Co-ordinator
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