Sussex International Women’s Day – What’s it all about?

We are a non-profit organisation run by volunteers. We organise a one day event for women to meet, celebrate, learn, and have fun together. International Women’s Day is on 8 March. We organise our day on the nearest Saturday each year. The event usually happens in Bognor Regis and Littlehampton in Sussex alternately.

What happens on the day?
The day is free and open to all women. We generally get approximately 200 women from across West Sussex and beyond. Each year we have a theme and our activities are chosen accordingly. Every year we have music, dancing, and singing from around the world for everyone to join in. There are arts and crafts to try, workshops to learn new skills and wide range of therapies for health and well being. Local organisations have stalls with lots of information about what’s going on in our communities and the wider world. Children are welcome (boys up to 12 years) and some special activities are provided for children and their carers. There are no sales stalls as we make this a social day rather than commercial. We offer subsidised food with an international flavour.

Would you like to get involved?
We have lots fun planning and organising the event and developing new skills together. We need more women to join us to bring new ideas and skills and to share the work of making our day a great success. There are lots of ways that women can get involved – you don’t have to make a big time commitment.

We need to volunteers to help before the day
Making food
Giving out leaflets
Getting the venue ready
Putting up posters in your locality
Contacting local organisations
And much more………………

We need help on the day with
Serving food
Clearing up
Reception
Looking after stalls
And much more……….