Welcome to the Tunbridge Wells Women celebrating 100 years of the first women getting the vote. There will be events throughout the year so follow us to join us
Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay. We will come together to remember people murdered in the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution, and in the Genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
#vote100 Friday marks 100 years since women ( some, not all just yet) voted in a UK election. A month after the Great War ended, it must have been a monumental feeling. @TWWomen100
Our research out today shows 1/3 workers don’t know it is illegal to pay men & women differently for equal work. On the eve of #EqualPayDay, we have launched a fund aimed at providing women on low incomes with legal advice. Support it now: https://t.co/CxNmp5A2zI #GetEqual
Don’t forget to get you tickets for this event: it’s going to be fascinating and inspiring and it’s on a subject we all need to familiar ourselves with as it’s now the leading cause of death in women #dementia#TunbridgeWells#women#Alzheimers . https://t.co/xy3BJfyety
Following the huge success of bestselling memoir, ‘Someone I used to know,’ we r delighted that @WendyPMitchell & her co-author @whartonswords will be in discussion about Wendy’s experience of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s on 16 Oct. Tickets https://t.co/xy3BJfyety #Alzheimer
Absolutely...and thousands of women, well educated and of good intellect, are useful and agreeable members of society and know everything about geometry
Last Open Branch Meeting before the summer break & Conference in September, so what better time to meet for a 'Summer Social!' Join us Tues 17 July, 8pm, at The Compasses 45 Little Mount Sion, TN1 1YP. All members/supporters family & friends welcome #summersocial#TunbridgeWells
Colleagues in the parks team were working hard with In Bloom yesterday and replanted beds outside Lloyds Bank in Royal Tunbridge Wells.
The Vote 100 planters (purple, green and white) planted by Soroptimists and residents of the Chamberlain Court Care Home and sponsored by Lloyds
Today we launch Voice and Vote: Women’s Place in Parliament.
This major new exhibition explores the history of women in Parliament - the campaigns, the protests and the achievements. Book your free tickets (27 June – 6 October).
https://t.co/vIzmQ8BlxC #VoiceandVote#Vote100
#WASPI SILENT PROTEST - BBC Filming next week - Wednesday 4th July.
Same time, same place. Abingdon St. Gardens. Opposite statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, 5pm-7pm.
#WASPI#notgoingwaway#deedsnotwords
Good to see the Friends of Tunbridge Wells Cemetery holding an exhibition in the centenary year of womens’ suffrage commemorating some of the exceptional women buried there. You can see it on Sat 16th & Sun 17th June 2.30pm-5pm @FoHCTW@callyauckland#FoHCTW#exceptionalwomen