The Lignum Vitae
Club is a non-profit organisation run by professional Jamaican
women, whose purpose is to provide and deliver opportunities
for women to champion, support and develop projects/activities
to benefit their communities locally and globally.
The Lignum Vitae Club, named after one of Jamaica's national
emblems, was established in the UK over 35 years ago and its
members are devoted to the principle of service, the
advancement of the individual and of Jamaican communities both
nationally and internationally.
promote, celebrate and
elevate the contributions and achievements of Jamaican
women within the context of the wider Jamaican community
support and promote the
interest and development of young people of Jamaican
heritage
provide a voice for Jamaican
women, and a wider awareness of issues facing the Jamaican
community
offer opportunities for
social and professional networking as well as for
individuals to develop and demonstrate leadership skills
fund-raise in order to
contribute to charitable and humanitarian causes
compliment the work of
partner organisations and the charity sectors serving the
Jamaican community.
"Exchanging
skills/ideas and working with professional women
is important to me and offers my daughter who is
in her 20's the opportunity to develop the
confidence she needs in a competitive society".
"I run a small
marketing business and the organisation gives me a
good customer base to promote my business"
"I wanted to put
something back into our community and with Lignum
Vitae I have the opportunity to contribute in a
number of ways to supporting a variety of
charitable causes that benefits Jamaican"
