SOFT Newsletter 2025

August 2025

Finally the SOFT Newsletter 2025 No 52 has dropped through your Letterboxes for this year again.

Thanks to all who contributed, supported and/or helped in any way to make it happen. It was an experience in itself to follow it through from start to finish.

Here is the process. It starts at the Autumn Break/AGM where someone gets up and says I will do it as a challenge. That’s the hardest part and it gets easier and all down hill after that. Just sit back for a while to mull over what the content might consist of such as the usual including contents list, the committee list, greetings from the chair, tribute book in the middle pages, jokes corner, your newsletter needs you, advertisements, wedding favours, special birthdays, the future of soft, first communion, autumn break , family outing, fundraiser for aj, clontarf golf club charity day, 21km for 21 years, darkness into light, a unique christmas experience, little fingers book review, toy show appeal, vhi mini marathon and to the child in my heart poem. That sounds like that’s it but wait what about the front and back cover. Just as well we were running late this year as out of the clouds came the Cycle & Climb for Little Blue Heroes and S.O.F.T. Ireland. There wasn’t time for a report but it did fill a void on the front and back cover. More about that in next year’s newsletter. Is that it, well no it is not. You still have to lay out thanks to John Lambert Design and for printing Jaycee Print. You are still not finished as envelopes, stamps, address / return labels and heads up letter on autumn break. Don’t forget to put them into the post box our end and wait for them to drop your end.

“Our Newsletter will be posted to all members and will drop through your letterboxes around Mid August. It will be in the new A5 style and Full Colour and be filled with information, stories, outings, fundraising, photos and a great deal more. It’s a great way to communicate with our members and will be a great read. The feedback has been very positive in previous years. The Newsletter will be coordinated by the Chairperson this year for a change. We have collected stories, photos, articles, fundraising ideas and much more. It is with the printers at present. Posting to all members Mid August.”

For next year 2026

We still rely on our members to come up with something no matter how small or disjointed it may be. Try your hand at writing and it doesn’t have to be about SOFT in its entirety as we will take whatever you come up with. There in no specific deadline but end of May 2026 would be ideal. We will have to close soon after that as we need to allow for Lay Up, Printing and Distribution. So when the deadline is gone it’s gone so remember that.

Also an important letter about the Autumn Break in November 2026 will be enclosed to members in the newsletter. If any member did not receive a newsletter copy last year you may just need to update your details including your email address and please contact soft.chairperson@gmail.com and we can help sort it. It will be a great read and long may it continue but only if you support it.

We are looking for sponsorship next year and will leave a page for that. But at the moment it is blank and we are open to offers.

Articles back to soft.chairperson@gmail.com as soon as you can please so get writing. Otherwise it could be filled with Stock Images and Advertisements.