{"id":2186,"date":"2017-01-20T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2017-02-22T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T08:55:34","slug":"community-centre-together-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/community-centre-together-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Centre – Together @ Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our first Christmas Day event couldn\u2019t have gone any better! We opened the Community Centre @ Christ Church from 12-3pm in order to host a 3 course meal
\n<\/a>including Christmas singing and ending with the Queens speech. Quite aptly the Queen spoke about Community spirit which we had managed to capture within our
\nbuilding that day too. There was fun, laughter and food provided for 40 people who would have otherwise been on their own on Christmas Day. Not to mention the 25 volunteers who were also fed.<\/p>\n

There was an amazing buzz around the Centre that day and I felt particularly humbled by the whole day and by the amount of kindness from everyone in the
\nroom. It is amazing how generous people can be when you try to do something nice for others at a time of year that should really be held in a family friendly environment.Volunteers gave up their time on the day itself and before, others gave financial backing to the cause whilst others donated particular items. It was amazing to see
\nthe whole community come together. We have received so much positive feedback after the event from both volunteers and attendees alike and will be looking to make this an annual event.<\/p>\n

<\/a>If you would like to volunteer at next year\u2019s event please do get in contact with me.<\/p>\n

Chris Smith \u2013 Email: chris.smith@ccccswindon.co.uk or Tel: 01793 617237<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our first Christmas Day event couldn\u2019t have gone any better! We opened the Community Centre @ Christ Church from 12-3pm in order to host a 3 course meal including Christmas singing and ending with the Queens speech. Quite aptly the Queen spoke about Community spirit which we had managed to capture within our building that day too. There was fun, laughter and food provided for 40 people who would have otherwise been on their own on Christmas Day. Not to mention […]<\/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-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}