{"id":180,"date":"2009-11-01T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/11\/01\/volunteering-information-fair\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T00:27:00","slug":"volunteering-information-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering Information Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09103102.jpg\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ylrwon4\">The Volunteering Information Fair<\/a> was on  at the The Roysse Room in the Guildhall&#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09103104.jpg\" \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190720201909\/http:\/\/www.rcv.org.uk\/\">Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers<\/a> are looking for people able to give a little bit of time to share their enthusiasm or interest &#8211; photography, cooking, astonomy, art or whatever &#8211; with somebody else. They build up a list of able and disabled people and match them up<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09103105.jpg\" \/><br \/>Vinvolved are there to promote volunteering for 16-25 year olds. I know my son is doing a bit of volunteer work because sometimes it is the way to get experience before you can get into a job.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09103103.jpg\" \/><br \/>Among others there were Guide Dogs for the Blind.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09103101.jpg\" \/><br \/>I tried out some special glasses &#8211; intended to help the rest of us understand better what it is like to have various optical conditions. This one is to simulate <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130428095350\/http:\/\/www.opticaladvisor.com:80\/amd.htm\">macular degenaration<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Volunteering Information Fair was on at the The Roysse Room in the Guildhall&#8230;Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers are looking for people able to give a little bit of time to share their enthusiasm or interest &#8211; photography, cooking, astonomy, art or whatever &#8211; with somebody else. They build up a list of able and disabled people and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","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=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}