Programme Action

Programme Action is very much at the heart of what S.I.Birkenhead is about and it very much drives the activities that the club is involved in.

We have a very strong link with our Friendship Link club Port Elizabeth and have a fundraising programme to help support the various projects that they are involved with particularly the House of Resurrection Aids Haven which we have opened a separate Building Fund account which will be used to help them become a Childrens Home /Centre which will not only be caring for HIV/AIDS positive children but also children who have been abandoned and abused. We also support many of the other projects with money, gifts of clothes,toys, stationery and toiletries. These include :Khyalethu Street Childrens Project, Khya Cheshire---a project helping severely handicapped children, Lindas Little Angels—a project for children of women prisioners, St James School Food Fund which provides food for the children without families etc. The club is also providing a bursary for a gifted pupil who wants to train to be a doctor, which we hope to do until she is through university.

We support projects in our local community such as Charles Thompsons Mission which provides food and support for the homeless. We also support R.A.S.A. which is a local centre supporting rape victims. The Zero Centre in Birkenhead is also one of the local projects we support which is a family support centre helping women in abusive relationships. Stick n Step is a centre in New Ferry also very much in need of support . It provides help and education for children with Cerebral Palsy and numerous children are helped here ,many from outside the Wirral.

Every year we support World Food Day with a cake sale the proceeds going to Charles Thompson’s Mission. We also hold an event for World Water Aid and also for World Aids Day.

One of our most ambitious projects has been setting up the Wirral Moonlight Walk for Breast Cancer. With a lot of support from the public we have been able to give £ 13,419 to Breakthrough Breast Cancer, provide a T.V. for our local breast screening unit (£1000 ) and provide a piece of equipment for the MacMillan Lymphodemia Clinic to assist breast cancer patients (£1000). We have not yet finalised this years walk and money is still being sent in. Next year we plan to shorten the walk in the hope that even more people will join in and support the fight against this terrible disease.

Trip to South Africa

As part of the club's ongoing Programme Action the four club members visited the House of Resurrection Aids Haven .

 The members took with them baby clothes and a gift of R2000 to help with everyday expenses.Teddy bears were given to all the babies in the nursery and these had been brought out from England having been knitted by a 98 year old lady supporter. 

The members also visited the Khayaluthu Street Children Project which the club supports in a small way financially.

After this a visit was made to the Khaya Cheshire Project which is for severely handicapped children and is supported by the club with small financial gifts. 

St. James' School was the next visit where our members support a food fund for orphan children or head of household children.A gift of R4500 was given to help with this project as the money we had left at Christmas had already been used up.

  At the same school we help to support two gifted girls, LINATHI would like to be a doctor and the CEDRINANO an engineer with a Bursary.

In appreciation of the visit a group of girls performed some traditional dancing.

Finally, a visit was made to the Reality Project, which is part of the women's refuge organisation where women are trained to give them means of acquiring independent financial support. 

The club has purchased 400 jam spoons and 100 cake forks which it is hoped will sell at conference in Cardiff to support this project for abused women. 

The next day the 3 children who are being sponsored: Siya, Abongile and Inga, were visited and given presents of new shirts and a jumper for Abongile.