{"id":12512,"date":"2014-10-11T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T20:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2014-10-11T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T20:49:33","slug":"volunteering-for-the-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12512","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering For The Vale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14101101.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteering For The Vale\" \/><br \/>\nThe Chairman of The Vale of White Horse District Council, Councillor Mike Badcock, presented awards today for people recognised for their voluntary service to communities in the Vale of White Horse.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14101102.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteering For The Vale\" \/><br \/>\nThere were awards for two people who Mike said had done a great deal for South Abingdon. <\/p>\n<p>Both Preston Road Community Centre and Thameside School independently nominated Mary De Vere. <\/p>\n<p>Mary also gives a lot of her free time working for Drayton Road Allotment Association and All Saints Church (in North Abingdon).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14101103.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteering For The Vale\" \/><br \/>\nThe other main force at\u00a0 Preston Road Community Centre is Ray Ball. As well as organising a lot of recent improvements to the centre; he runs youth groups, The Vineyard Church, and with Ellie his wife organises community activities such as mother &#038; toddler groups. <\/p>\n<p>There were lots of other examples of people who went above and beyond from other towns and villages in the Vale. That even included  the man who scours the White Horse in Uffington to keep it bright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of The Vale of White Horse District Council, Councillor Mike Badcock, presented awards today for people recognised for their voluntary service to communities in the Vale of White Horse. There were awards for two people who Mike said had done a great deal for South Abingdon. Both Preston Road Community Centre and Thameside [&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-12512","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\/12512","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=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}