{"id":10685,"date":"2014-01-29T00:24:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T23:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2014-01-29T00:24:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T23:24:25","slug":"your-local-community-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10685","title":{"rendered":"Where Bingo meets the University of The Third Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-fz8kH-Tou-o\/UugxB5BQIPI\/AAAAAAAAQiU\/XbbwNH6xqtw\/s1600\/14012803.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-fz8kH-Tou-o\/UugxB5BQIPI\/AAAAAAAAQiU\/XbbwNH6xqtw\/s1600\/14012803.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEvery Tuesday at Preston Road Community Centre there is Bingo. Eyes down at 8:00 pm. Unlike the online Bingo it is a community event where people get together with friends and chat between games. Its twitter hashtag is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23prestonroadjackpot&#038;src=hash&#038;f=realtime\">#prestonroadjackpot<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uHM4Niywcbs\/Uugy1mX9pmI\/AAAAAAAAQic\/z6nB3RToVbw\/s1600\/14012801.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uHM4Niywcbs\/Uugy1mX9pmI\/AAAAAAAAQic\/z6nB3RToVbw\/s1600\/14012801.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn Friday the Blood Donation Service take over the centre for the day so I would guess the usual Friday Youth Club for South Abingdon has a week off.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-T9QmSVdX0gE\/Uug0C1kyj2I\/AAAAAAAAQik\/3h8zkxqZKsU\/s1600\/14012802.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-T9QmSVdX0gE\/Uug0C1kyj2I\/AAAAAAAAQik\/3h8zkxqZKsU\/s1600\/14012802.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Abingdon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u3a.org.uk\/\">U3A<\/a> meet at Preston Road Community Centre. The University of the Third Age is for people who have retired and still want to learn and discover new things.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/--BPChy4fT30\/Uui9J_tzq6I\/AAAAAAAAQi0\/deuwucoRTLk\/s1600\/14012800.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/--BPChy4fT30\/Uui9J_tzq6I\/AAAAAAAAQi0\/deuwucoRTLk\/s1600\/14012800.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere are lots more groups who use Preston Road Community Centre. The centre is run by a small group of volunteers, who would welcome new volunteers, and is there for the local community. New sliding partitions have been recently installed so that different areas are soundproofed and the large hall can be divided in two, as can the lounge, or it can all be opened up for one big event &#8211; very configurable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Tuesday at Preston Road Community Centre there is Bingo. Eyes down at 8:00 pm. Unlike the online Bingo it is a community event where people get together with friends and chat between games. Its twitter hashtag is #prestonroadjackpot. On Friday the Blood Donation Service take over the centre for the day so I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685","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=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}