{"id":10346,"date":"2013-12-16T22:20:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10346"},"modified":"2013-12-16T22:20:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:20:36","slug":"a-party-where-the-presents-were-given-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10346","title":{"rendered":"A Party where the Presents were Given Away &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Steve King for this report, and for the one last week about Stert Street in days gone by &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vwGwdZDpkQA\/Uq9qhGDCqCI\/AAAAAAAAP_I\/OrO_paOjwTw\/s1600\/13121601.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vwGwdZDpkQA\/Uq9qhGDCqCI\/AAAAAAAAP_I\/OrO_paOjwTw\/s1600\/13121601.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t until seven year old Megan (facing the camera) saw a woman sleeping rough on the streets of Abingdon that she realised there are many less fortunate people in the world, not least, children who won&#8217;t be getting a Christmas present this year, so she asked her mum what could she do to help.<\/p>\n<p>They found a charity called &#8220;Kids Out&#8221; who help children caught up in domestic violence situations, and Megan decided to hold a party in aid of them.  She invited her entire class from St Nicolas School, Abingdon, and their families. The only stipulation was that each person should bring a new, ready wrapped Christmas present which Megan would then pass on to &#8220;Kids Out&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-IXt3TpUnnzE\/Uq9q_QkL2TI\/AAAAAAAAP_Q\/FSJNhOFnt7U\/s1600\/13121602.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-IXt3TpUnnzE\/Uq9q_QkL2TI\/AAAAAAAAP_Q\/FSJNhOFnt7U\/s1600\/13121602.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSaturday afternoon saw approximately 40 children plus their parents arrive at Peachcroft centre where they danced and played games to the &#8220;Peoples Party&#8221; disco, had their faces painted by &#8220;Carols&#8221; face painters and ate and drank plenty, courtesy of her Mum, and Nan , and at the end of the day Megan had collected an amazing 74 parcels\/presents for Kid&#8217;s Out !<\/p>\n<p>Granddad Steve says &#8220;<em>Thanks for all those who came and helped out, and to Tesco, Abingdon for their support too. Watch out! This story could be in the Abingdon Herald as well<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Steve King for this report, and for the one last week about Stert Street in days gone by &#8230; It wasn&#8217;t until seven year old Megan (facing the camera) saw a woman sleeping rough on the streets of Abingdon that she realised there are many less fortunate people in the world, not least, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}