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Central Birmingham Soroptimist BBQ

Soroptimist International is a a worldwide organisation for women in management and the professions, working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Founded in 1921, when eighty women formed the first Soroptimist club in Oakland, California, membership has since grown to over 90,000 women across the world. The Central Birmingham Soroptimists have been supporting VSO and its volunteers for some twenty-five years, and here are some photos from their fundraising barbeque, held in June 2008.

Central Birmingham Soroptimist BBQ


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Submit your photos and testimonies

We are always on the look out for eye-catching photos and inspiring quotes to illustrate the fundraising section and entice future fundraisers. If you think you have captured the spirit and emotion of your fundraising event and that it would definitely inspire others to raise money for VSO, we would like to hear from you. For a feature on the photo gallery and the testimonies sections, ideally we would like to have a maximum of 10 photos per event with a brief synopsis (for the photo gallery) or a detailed account of the event (about 200 words for the testimonies) including the amount you have raised. To have your event featured, email the events team.

Supplying images to us

In order to maintain high standards for our web publications and If you would like to send us images for possible use, please follow these guidelines:

All images must be copyright cleared: i.e., you must own the copyright or have written permission from the copyright holder or photographer to reproduce the image.
You must have permission, ideally in writing, from any individual who is recognisable in the picture, or whose creative work is shown.
Image files should have a resolution of at least 280 dpi (dots per inch). We can ‘resample’ images to this resolution, provided the result can be used at a reasonable size. Ideally, images should be in JPEG or GIF format, but we can consider images in other formats.
If you have prints, we can scan these in-house.