{"id":16091,"date":"2016-04-25T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16091"},"modified":"2016-04-25T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:55:08","slug":"clubs-and-societies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=16091","title":{"rendered":"Clubs and Societies – 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Clubs
\nThe Didcot, Abingdon and Wantage Talking Newspaper – DAWN – record and produce local news for people who are blind or partially sighted. It can be listened to by anybody visiting their website<\/a>, and is distributed to about 100 recipients using memory sticks. Volunteers record news and other features of interest at the Health and Wellbeing Centre on Audlett Drive in Abingdon.
\n\"Clubs
\nUniversity of the 3rd Age<\/a> – U3A – have over 300 members in Abingdon. Thay have weekly talks at Preston Road Commnity Centre. The next ones are:
\nMon May 9th – Investigation of Insurance Fraud
\nMon May 16th – James Sadler: Oxford Pastry Cook & First English Aeronaut
\nMon May 23rd – The Spanish Guitar
\nThey also have many other smaller groups for people with special interests.
\n\"Clubs
\nAbingdon-on-Thames Festival of Science and Technology is an annual week-long event run by ATOM<\/a>. They also have monthly talks. Next one is 19:30 to 21:00, 28 April 2016 at the Barn Room, Crown & Thistle, Abingdon, when Professor Jon Butterworth from UCL will discuss physics at the \u2018energy frontier\u2019. (Free for members. \u00a33 for non-members.)
\n\"Clubs
\nThe Rotary Club Vesper are well known for running the annual Dragon Boat Racing on the first Sunday of September. They also run the Abingdon Food Festival <\/a>. It began at Miele for the first two years, and is moving to Rye Farm Meadow, Abingdon this year on Saturday 25th June 2016. The Rotary Club Vesper are experts at advertising and running large events. They also raise a lot of money for good causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Didcot, Abingdon and Wantage Talking Newspaper – DAWN – record and produce local news for people who are blind or partially sighted. It can be listened to by anybody visiting their website, and is distributed to about 100 recipients using memory sticks. Volunteers record news and other features of interest at the Health and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091","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=16091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}