AIMS OF BPW

To organise Business and Professional Women to use their abilities and strength for the attainment of the following objectives:

• To work for high standards of service in business and the professions.
• To encourage women and girls to acquire education, occupational training and advanced education, and to use their occupational capacities and intelligence for the advantage of others as well as themselves.
• To stimulate and encourage in women, awareness and acceptance of their responsibilities to the community, locally, nationally and internationally.
• To work for equal opportunities and status for women in the economic, civil and political life in all countries, and to work for the removal of all discrimination. And,
• To promote world-wide friendship, co-operation and understanding between business and professional women.

COLLECT

Keep us, O God, from pettiness,
Let us be large in thought, in word, in deed.
Let us be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking.
May we put away all pretence and meet each other face-to-face, without self-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgement and always generous.
Let us take time for all things.
Make us grow calm, serene and gentle.
Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straightforward and unafraid.
Grant that we may realise it is the little things that create differences.
That in the big things of life we are at one.
And may we strive to touch and to know
the great common Human Heart in us all.
And, O Lord, let us not forget to be kind.