DUAL membership. SISEAP Soroptimists can now be paid members of two SISEAP clubs at the same time. Dual membership supports struggling clubs and enables Soroptimists to give service at the club level in two clubs.
Click HERE to find Dual Membership Information Sheet.
This is the 2023 Membership Best Practice Award winners.
Winner
Club: SI Fiji
Congratulations to SI Fiji on a successful 2022 extension programme, with two new Clubs Chartered. Well done for the highest overall Region membership increase of 167% since 2011.
Winner
Club: SI Moreton North Inc
Congratulations to SI Moreton North for diversity and inclusivity of membership, utilising the SISEAP categories to increase membership, welcoming members from other countries and including a wide range of ages. Recruitment and retention methods that ensure members join and stay.
Some 30 students registered to participate in 6 heats across 6 campuses from April through to May. Culminating in 6 articulate and confident women making the ‘floor theirs’ in the Grand Final of the SIWA The Floor is Yours public speaking competition for women enrolled in a tertiary institution. The 70 people who attended the grand final were informed, challenged and entertained by each of the speakers who spoke on topics around leadership, equity, equality or more specifically gender equality.
This was the 5th year of the competition that is a collaborative project by 5 clubs and supported by the Region of WA. This year representatives from the 5 clubs formed a committee that met regularly online to plan, support each other and implement the project.
This year was also a turning point in the competition as the name of the competition was changed to The Floor is Yours; the scope of the competition was broadened to include all tertiary enrolled women, not just University students; and a dedicated Instagram account was opened - siwa_thefloorisyours. Please follow us.
There is one last component of this competition to be completed, the Leadership and Networking Seminar. All students registered for the competition, this year and last year, along with supporters from the various tertiary institutions are invited to attend the seminar. A number of experienced and successful women are invited to join with Soroptimists to provide networking and leadership skills to the students. It is also an opportunity for all the students to meet each other and begin to build their own networks.
Elizabeth Butson AM
SEAP Membership Australia 2022-2024
2023 Thriving Futures Program:
An eight month program to build Soroptimist leadership in the volunteer sector, membership capacity and capability, consisting of webinars, a 3 day face-to-face training, and undertaking a project supported by a coach. There is an extension program to train facilitators of the program.
The SI Aotearoa New Zealand Leadership Programme (2022 - 2023) was successfully completed on 23 February when 13 participants reported back to each other on their project, the leadership approaches they used and the lessons they learned. Congratulations! And a big thank you to Anthea Penny, Pip Mules and Sandy Stephens for the training and coaching.
Thriving Futures Program, Asia is an exciting SISEAP membership initiative to support leadership and project management capability, with a goal for membership development. It includes webinars, face to face training and coaching. See the flyer below for more information.
Announcing the SISEAP Leadership program - The Thriving Futures, your future and SISEAP's future. The aim of this program is to build capacity and capability for Soroptimists at all levels to ensure the organisation’s future sustainability. Current and future leaders will participate in a program that is delivered across 4 months. At the beginning of the program two webinars will be held; one of which focuses on the Soroptimist mission, values, programs, membership and structure. This is followed by a three-day face-to-face workshop with the following content
In addition, participants will be required to identify a recruitment project, set goals and action steps for leading change in their own club, region or country and receive coaching via Google Meet while they undertake this. They will be expected to present their projects and what they have learned from the process on a webinar at the end of the programme before they receive their certificate.
Developers and Facilitators are Soroptimists Anthea Penny, (Master.H.M.Hons and, Federation Director); and Dr Pip Mules PhD who have developed and led the successful SIANZ National Leadership Programmes in 2021 and 2022.
The extended programme will also include Training Coaches, and Train the Trainers - so that local trainers are empowered to lead the programme. Funding has been approved to hold a Thriving Futures Program in Kuala Lumpur in 2023.
For further information contact Yvonne Simpson, Membership Convenor.
This campaign runs from 1 March - 1 October 2023. Our best recruiters are Club members and this will be our 2023 focus.
We are very excited to announce another step towards creating online Clubs. The New Zealand and Australian initiatives will become part of an SISEAP pilot online community, that is now available for all SISEAP countries.
An online community is for Soroptimists who can’t access a traditional Club that meets face to face. Once there are at least 15 members, the community could then go on to Charter as an Online Club.
If you are reconsidering your membership, or have family or friends who may be interested in joining an Online Community, then we encourage you to explore this option. The SISEAP online community will be available from 15 January 2023.
Please register your interest at to the online community coordinator
Further information contact Yvonne Simpson, Membership Convenor