TCI newsletter - Tangent Club International · 2018-03-29 · TCI newsletter I number 6 2016-2017 N...

TCI newsletter number 6 2016-2017

INTERNATIONAL

TANGENT CLUB

Summer time!Summer. Finally summer. For those of you who live in warmer parts of the world it’s hard to understand the magic that word holds for us up here in the north. It’s that much too short oeriod when it’s day-light almost 24 hours per day, when you don’t have to wear thick overcoats and long underwear, when everybody is smilig and life is a little easier. It’s also that short perod when everything is happening - all parties, all weddings, all music festivals, everything.

A lot has happened in the Tangent world since we had our AGM in Landshut and I was elected president. We now have a complete new board, sin-ce Tangent Cyprus’ AGM. Welcome aboard Anna - IRO Tangent Cyprus! (Nice name by the way). You can find all contact details in this newsletter. We also have chartered to new Tangent countries - Tangent Club Israel and Tangent Club Sri Lanka. Our Tang-ent world is certainly growing and nothing gives me more pleasure!

It’s such a privilege to be working in this fantastic organisation. The other day I got a friend request from a Tangent in India. She sent me a greeting and we started to chat. I’d never met this lady before but we hit it off instantely, giving proof to the saying: Meeting a new Tangent, is meeting an old friend for the very first time. That truth works both nationally and internationally. So reach out your hand to the Tangent world, go to an international event or attend another country’s AGM and you will find more friendship han you ever could imagine.

This weekend, the TCI VP, Treasurer, Secretary and I will sit down at my home and start to work with the TCI rules and guidelines and work descriptions. But don’t worry, I’ve put in som nice breaks as well. We will do our very best to move this organization forward. But we can’t do it without your help. If you have any input or questions or issues you want us to raise, we are only an email or phone call away. Remember, we are there for you!

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Love to all of you from meAnna Åkesson

President Tangent Club International 2016-2017United in friendship

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TCI newsletter number 6 2016-2017INTERNATIONAL

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The TCI Board 2016-2017

TCI Directory 2016-2017 2

Tangent Club International Board 2016-2017

TCI President Anna Åkesson (Tangent Sweden)

Mobile: +46 709375206 e-mail: [email protected]

TCI Vice President

Gerd-Inger Kaasen (Tangent Norway) Mobile: +47 91 14 24 76

e-mail: [email protected]

TCI Treasurer Niina Hämäläinen (Tangent Club Suomi Finland)

Mobile: +358 40 558 6691 e-mail: [email protected]

TCI Secretary Alex Voller (Tangent Great Britain)

Mobile: +44 7432 061898 e-mail: [email protected]

TCI Board Member Jeanett Korch (Tangent Denmark)

Mobile: +45 27 12 22 96 e-mail: [email protected]

TCI Board Member

Anna Adamidou (Tangent Cyprus) Mobile: +357 99 47 07 17


TCI Directory 2016-2017 2

Tangent Club International Board 2016-2017

TCI President Anna Åkesson (Tangent Sweden)

Mobile: +46 709375206 e-mail: [email protected]

TCI Vice President

Gerd-Inger Kaasen (Tangent Norway) Mobile: +47 91 14 24 76


TCI Treasurer Niina Hämäläinen (Tangent Club Suomi Finland)

Mobile: +358 40 558 6691 e-mail: [email protected]

TCI Secretary Alex Voller (Tangent Great Britain)

Mobile: +44 7432 061898 e-mail: [email protected]

TCI Board Member Jeanett Korch (Tangent Denmark)

Mobile: +45 27 12 22 96 e-mail: [email protected]

TCI Board Member

Anna Adamidou (Tangent Cyprus) Mobile: +357 99 47 07 17


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Calendar 2016-20172016August 25-28 LCI conference in Cape Town, South Africa www.lci2016.org

31-4/9 RTI world meeting in Katmandu, Nepal www.rtiwm2016.org

September 16-18 TCI HYM cruise between Helsinki, Finland and Stock-

holm, Swedenwww.lcsf.fi/site/staticfiles/TCI_HYM_cruise_2016_registration_EN.html

October 1 HYM Tangent GB&I in Leeds, GB&I

13-16 AGM Tangent India & HYM Club 41 International in Bangalore, India

hymindia.org

23-24 HYM Tangent Denmark in Dragør, Denmark tangentdanmark.nemtilmeld.dk/1

28-20 HYM Tangent Sweden in Hooks, Sweden oldtablers.eplanner.se/hym2016

2017January20-22 LCI MTM Nortern Region in Gothenburg, Sweden mtm2017.com

27-29 LCI MTM African Region in Harare, Zimbabwe

February3-5 LCI MTM Middle European Region in Lichfield, GB&I www.mtm2017gbi.com

24-26 LCI MTM Southern European Region in Rome, Italy

March17-19 AGM Tangent Finland, in Hamina, Finland www.otsfagm.fi/index.php/en/

April20-23 AGM TCI & AGM Tangent GB&I in Blackpool, GB&I 41club-tangent-2017.co.uk/

28-30 AGM Tangent Denmark in Herning, Denmark www.lm17.dk

May5-7 AGM Club 41 International in Sun City, South Africa www.41ers.co.za/

25-28 AGM Tangent Sweden in Åre, Sweden www.rmiare2017.se

June8-11 AGM Tangent Norway in Alta, Norway lm2017.no

August24-27 LCI conference in Sønderborg, Denmark www.lci2017.org

If you want to add an event or have any questions, please contact your national IRO or send an email to [email protected]

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Greetings from Tangent SwedenHi Tangent ladies all over the world.I am Susanne Otzen and I am the president of Tangent Sweden 2016/2017. I joined Ladie Circle in 1997 and left in 2014. Two years before that I started as a hangaround in Tangent Sweden just to keep in touch with all the fabulous ladies I´ve known in our organization. When I got the question to become vice president the only answer was Yes, I´ll love it!

The photo is from our AGM when we had a very good meeting led by IPP Åsa Cato. Of course we had some champagne during the meeting, we Swedish ladies love to line up with glamour.

The next hap-pening in Tan-gent Sweden, except from starting the work with the new board, is our Half Year Meeting at Hooks herrgård 28-30th of October. The-re will be many chances to meet new and old friends, both from Tangent Sweden and Old Tablers Sweden. Last year we had a hilarious Saturday afternoon with activities for everyone. The ones who went for a little nap did miss something special. Sign up for HYM Sweden at https://oldtablers.eplanner.se/hym2016/ , the page will be open soon.

Hope to meet you somewhere, sometime…

SusannePresident Tangent Sweden#susannish #tangentsverige

Facts about Tangent SwedenTangent Sweden was founded in 1996. From the beginning we only had single membership but since the AGM in Borgholm in 2012, we also can charter Tangent Clubs. This has been a great success and we are now 14 clubs with more to come and 160 members. The Round Table family in Sweden works closely side by side and at the AGM 2016 Tangent Sweden and Ladies Circle Sweden signed a MOU. For us charity is important and we raise money both for All4Nepal and for the national service project of Ladies Circle. A normal year starts with the president of Tangent Sweden participating in the startup meeting for the new club presidents of Ladies Circle in August. In October we have the Half Year Meeting together with Old Tablers Sweden. In February and March, the board of Tangent Sweden is represented at all 13 Ladies Circle Area Meetings, and in May we have a gigantic side by side AGM. 2016 we were a record breaking 1360 participants! Between these regular events, there are always a lot of happenings at the local level. We Swedes do know how to party. So, please, feel welcome to come partying with us anytime!

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Report from TCI AGM 2016 in LandshutOn a beautiful sunny Saturday the second TCI AGM took place in Germany on the 23th April 2016, the event were hosted by OT 153 Landshut and we had the pleasures of welcoming 65 partici-pants from 8 countries including the LCI President Ruth Hungwe -Rukarwa and the RTI Vice Presi-dent Kaj Kostiander for the TCI AGM.

As always we start the AGM with a glass of cham-pagne A and the OT 153 Landshut showed to be perfect to host the TCI AGM event A

The TCI AGM was visited by the ACI President Thanh Thao who gave greetings for the meeting.

At the AGM the TCI Councillors and the TCI Bo-ard voted in favour of:• Capitation Fee for full member countries in TCI• Open elections for the TCI Board from 2019 Vice President and from 2020 Treasurer and Secretary

Again this year we have received application for membership of TCI and at the AGM we were happy

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to welcome Tangent Israel as associate member of TCI, the Tangents of Israel are already very active – and you should all enjoy visiting their FaceBook group and fol-low the event of Tangent Club Israel. We hope to be able to welcome participants from Tangent Club Israel at the TCI AGM 2017 in Blackpool, England.

It might have been a bit stressful planning the TCI AGM as everything we do is still a lot of first, but af-ter this AGM we will do a lot of seconds – and our new TCI President Anna Åkesson will cement the work done during the past 2 years.

The new TCI Board was inducted and I look forward to follow Anna and her team in the year to come.

For me it is time to say thank you and goodbye, thank you to all Tangents, Circlers, Tablers and 41’ers around the world that for the past 8 years have supported the birth of TCI and helped on the way to our the Charter, the first and the second TCI AGM.

I look forward to see you all and to learn of new friends amongst the world of Tangent in the years to come – and to be able to spend all my time with you.

Extend your hand in friendshipYOURS

Susanne NøragerPresident Tangent Club International 2014-2016

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The Charter of Tangent Israel

This was historic moment in LC Israel - 3 Tangent clubs were founded with lovely Ex-circlers.

During the ceremony President LC Israel Adi Beery and Presi-dent TC Israel Liat Wallenstein signed a treaty organization for full cooperation between Tangent Israel and LC Israel to work together and to continue friendship and service for ever.

Lots of love to all the ladies in the world who have chosen to do something good for someone

voluntarily with big hug

Liat WallensteinPresident Tangent Club Israel

On the 16th of June at the AGM of Ladies Circle Israel, Tangent Club Israel was chartered. Since the charter letter wasn’t ready at that moment, it was signed at a later date. The entusiasm and amount of work already done by the Israelian Tangents is truly remarkable. We look forwatd to meet you at TCI events and encourage all Tangents to fol-low Tangent Club Israel on Facebook. We can all find a lot of inspiration there!

A heartfelt welcomefrom the entire Tangent world

through the TCI Board.

Welcome Tangent Club Israel

In May this year I was contacted by Smita Chopra of Tangent India. She had been in contact with some ex-circlers and wifes of Club 41:ers and told them about Tangent. They became in-terested in forming a Tangent Club themselves and from that moment everything happened very quickly. I volunteered that Tangent Sweden could be Godmother country to Tangent Club Sri Lanka. Through Smita I sent them all information and nec-cessary documents and we formed a Whatsapp goup where we had lively discussions about all matters concerned.

So not more than a month after I was first contacted, I got an urgent proposal from Smita. Could I please be present via Skype on the charter of Tangent Club Sri Lanka on the 25th of June. Of course I could. So thanks to modern technology I had the pri-vilege to be part of this historical moment. It was a both solemn and warm ceremony and the new Tangent country was greeted

by Tangent Club International, Tangent India and by the president of Club 41 Sri Lanka as well as other representatives of Club 41. At the same time Tangent Sri Lanka signed the application form for associate membership in Tangent Club International. Smita has put together a video on the charter, which I’ve posted in the Tangent Club International facebook group. If anyone is interested an this video, I’m more than happy to send it to you.

Smita did a marvelous job with meetings and information. This could not have happened without her! But I was equally impressed by the enthusiasm and eagerness shown by the Sri Lankesian Tangents and I’m sure Tangent Club Sri Lanka will have a bright future. I’m looking forward meeting several of the ladies at Tangent India’s AGM in Bangalore in October.

A heartfelt welcomefrom the entire Tangent world

through TCI President Anna

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The Charter of Tangent Club Sri Lanka

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LittleBigHelpThe board of Tangent Club International has decided to promote a charity project. But since we are such a young organisation, we didn’t want to start our own project but instead has decided to promote the current international service project of LCI, LittleBigHelp.

LittleBigHelp works to create better opportunities and a brighter future for children connected to the street and in slum areas in and around Kolkata, India. They work with children to secure their ba-sic human rights such as education, basic medical care, shelter and nutrition every day.

West Bengal in the Eastern part of India is one of the country’s poorest states with more than 50% of the population being impoverished.

Many of the people living in the State capital of West Bengal, Kolkata, do not have access to ba-sic human rights such as education, clean drinking water, shelter, or food that we in most of the world take for granted. The conditions are even more se-

vere in some of the non-registered slum areas of Kolkata where such rights are non-existent. Children are the most vulnerable group in these areas.

An estimated 12 million children are living on the street in India, whereof an estimated 250.000 children are connected to the street in Kolkata where LittleBigHelp is working. But there has been no official head count of street children in In-dia since hundreds of thousands of them have not even been registered at birth and thus make such head count even more challenging. Help is needed and that is why LittleBigHelp is working in these areas.

To achieve better results, they provide training and assistan-ce to our employees, while they in return acquire invaluable knowledge about local conditions and challenges.

Applying a rights-based approach to their work, they focus on the most vulnerable children in the local communities and the children working on the train platforms. These children have no access to basic human rights and live under extremely chal-lenging conditions. LittleBigHelp work to secure some of their rights such as education, protection and nutrition.

MissionWe change your little help into a big help for people in need.

VisionWe cannot help everybody – but we can help some. And we do it!

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To help develop the potential of every child, participation and sup-port is key in their work. It is essen-tial to try to involve all the children they come across. By giving them an education and teaching them about their rights LittleBigHelp enable them to change their future and increase their chances of a life off the street.

Recognizing the importance of the support and involvement of the local communities, LittleBigHelp do awareness camps at their school on various topics where parents of

the children are taught life-skills and are explained the importance of sending their children to school. It is essential for LittleBigHelp’s work that they enjoy their support.

You can find more information about LittleBigHelp on www.little-bighelp.com

I’ve had a meeting with LittleBig-Help together with the vice presi-dent of LCI, Gry Haugen and told them about our support. I also told them that since this is new to us, I couldn’t give them an estimate of how big a support we would be able to provide. Our goal is to be able to donate the money col-lected at the LCI conferenec 2017 in Sønderborg, Denmark. I hope you will all find that this is a good idea both now and for the future. I would very much like to receive ideas from all of you on how to rai-se funds in the best ways. I know we all raise money for our different national projects, but surely there’s room for one more. And I also know that nwhen we women put our minds to something and work to-gether as one, we can really move mountains.

A little help from you is a bip help for othersLove Anna

PROGRAM – ALL TIMES ARE LOCAL TIMESFriday 16 Sep 201615.00 – 16.30 Registration at the TallinkSilja Olympia terminal, South Harbour of Helsinki17.00 Departure time of M/S Silja Serenade16.45 – 17.30 Coffee buffet in Atlantis Palace bar downstairs (Just Bar), deck 7 incl. coffee, tea, salty and sweet snacks (our welcome drink is served at the TCSF meeting)17.00 – 17.30 Registrations to the TCSF meeting, conference department, deck 617.30 Welcome drink to TC ladies17.30 – 20.00 TCSF HYM20.45 – 21.00 President’s cocktail, Grande Buffet, deck 621.00 – 23.00 Á la Carte dinner, restaurant Tavolata, deck 6

Saturday 17 Sep 20167.00 – 9.30 Breakfast on board9.30 Ship arrives at Stockholm (Värtahamnen) Free program14.00 – 15.00 Coffee buffet, Atlantis Palace bar downstairs, deck 715.00 – 18.00 TCI HYM, conference department, deck 616.45 Departure time of M/S Silja Serenade from Värtahamnen harbor of Stockholm19.30 – 21.30 Buffet-dinner, Grande Buffet, deck 6 Ready-reserved tables for TC ladies

Sunday 18 Sep 20167.00 – 9.30 Breakfast on board9.55 Arrival in Helsinki

Welcome aboard!Tangent Club Suomi Finland

Come cruise with us!Tangent Club Finland side by side with Ladies Circle Finland are hos-ting the TCI Half Year Meeting on Silja Serenade 16-18 of September. Come join us for a weekend filled with meetings, discussions, laugh-ter, sisterhood, good food and maybe a glass of bubbly or two!

Please fill in your registration at www.lcsf.fi/site/staticfiles/TCI_HYM_cruise_2016_registration_EN.html

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HYM 2016Hooks Herrgård 28-30 oktober

oldtablers.eplanner.se/hym2016

Welcome! Susanne & Philip, pres 2016/2017Tangent Sweden & Old Tablers Sweden

Tangent Danmark – Efterårsmøde 2016 afholdes i samarbejde med The Ladies i dagene 23. og 24. september på Dragør Fort

Fredag den 23. september: Ankomst og tjek ind på badehotellet fra kl. 15:00. Kl. 18:00-‐01:00: Middag m. 2-‐retter samt øl, vin, vand og kaffe/the ad libitum. Der spilles op til dans J

Lørdag den 24. september: Kl. 08:00: Dragør badeanstalt for de morgenfriske (med eller uden badetøj), derefter morgenmad. Kl.10.00: Alle mødes ved Dragør Fort til byvandring blandt mange velbevarede historiske bygninger. Kl. 11.30 (Dragør Fort): MINI KVINDE-‐KONFERENCE med fokus på kvinden i samfundet i dag.

Vi vil igennem dagens indlæg udfordres og søge, at blive klogere på og finde frem til hvordan kvinders offentlighedsprofil styrkes og hvordan kvinders viden, erfaring og ekspertise synliggøres. Hvordan definerer vi os selv? Hvilken rolle spiller vi i udfordringen med kvinders undertrykkelse i verdensbilledet? Tager vi vores ansvar -‐ eller, er vi "blevet en flok satte kvinder der bare helst vil hygge os"?

Vi får bl.a. besøg af: Nina Groes, direktør for KVINFO -‐ som bringer viden, research og analyse om ligestillingsdebatten ind som en definerende værdi i vores samfund -‐ læs evt. mere på www.kvinfo.dk. Og af: Heidi Hultgreen, der studerer socialvidenskab på Roskilde Universitet og som vil præsentere os for forums spil, hvor emnernes kompleksitet kan folde sig ud. Glæd Jer til et Efterårsmøde sprængfyldt med potentiale for udvikling.

Der serveres frokost undervejs, 2 små retter inkl. 1 øl/vand. Når det detaljerede program er fastlagt sendes en digital invitation direkte til alle medlemmer af Tangent Danmark. Mødet slutter kl. 17:00.

Tilmelding og det praktiske: Priser: Fredag kr. 495.-‐ Lørdag kr. 295.-‐ Begge dage kr. 750.-‐ Dertil kommer overnatning inkl. morgenmad Dobbelt værelse 850.-‐ (425.-‐ pr. pers.) Enkelt værelse 750.-‐ Se mere på www.badehotellet.dk Der fordeles efter først til mølle princippet. Ovenstående bestilles på: www.tangentdanmark.nemtilmeld.dk/1 Tilmeldingsfrist Søndag den 4. september 2016 Kontaktpersoner fra The Ladies: Alice: [email protected] Mette: 40815108

Invitation to the Half Yearly Meeting in Denmark. For more information, see tangentdanmark.nemtilmeld.dk/1 or contact the danish IRO, Jeanett Korch.

Invitation to the Half Yearly Meeting in Sweden. For more information, contact the swedish IRO Anna Åkesson

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