{"id":1035,"date":"2013-12-08T00:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T22:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2014-01-10T00:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:14:12","slug":"partnership-project-reaches-its-target-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/partnership-project-reaches-its-target-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership Project reaches its target &#8230; and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Project.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-full wp-image-1037\" alt=\"Project\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Project.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Project.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27480%27%20height%3D%27319%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20480%20319%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27480%27%20height%3D%27319%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Project-210x139.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Project-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Project.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>This was the culmination of the Partnership Project when we promised last February to raise \u00a35000 to help disabled people in Palestine and Lebanon through the aid agency, Christian Aid. \u00a0If we raised \u00a35000 then it would be matched three times over by EU funding so the challenge was set. \u00a0In the three churches, Bath Road, Christ Church and Immanuel all kinds of innovative ways of fund raising began from car boot sales to cake sales, a Ready, Steady Cook fun evening to a Pop up Italian restaurant evening and many people opened their gardens for viewing. \u00a0We worked hard and we learned a lot about the Middle East and we exceeded our target and raised the grand sum of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a310,354.32p<\/span>. \u00a0The photograph shows the organising group ie Margaret Williams from Christ Church, Jean Batten from Immanuel and Eric Sparkes from Bath Road \u00a0giving the cheque to Katrine Musgrave from Christian Aid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the culmination of the Partnership Project when we promised last February to raise \u00a35000 to help disabled people in Palestine and Lebanon through the aid agency, Christian Aid. \u00a0If we raised \u00a35000 then it would be matched three times over by EU funding so the challenge was set. \u00a0In the three churches, Bath Road, Christ Church and Immanuel all kinds of innovative ways of fund raising began from car boot sales to cake sales, a Ready, Steady Cook fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}