{"id":18113,"date":"2017-02-25T00:32:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T23:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18113"},"modified":"2017-02-25T00:32:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T23:32:20","slug":"south-abingdon-family-centre-south-abingdon-childrens-centre-south-abingdon-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18113","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating South Abingdon Children&#8217;s Centre (a day for the diary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17022501.jpg\" alt=\"Family Centre\" \/><br \/>\nIt began life as the Family Centre and was run by the NCH (National Children&#8217;s Home). There was quite a controversy when PACT took over running the centre back in 2006.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17022502.jpg\" alt=\"Family Centre\" \/><br \/>\nAs well as being a centre for young families, it was also a place with meeting rooms for community groups in South Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17022503.jpg\" alt=\"Family Centre\" \/><br \/>\nThe Family Centre became the Children&#8217;s Centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17022504.jpg\" alt=\"Family Centre\" \/><br \/>\nLots of family and child support has been happening there over the last decade. I often went there to report events like the apple days organised by the Abingdon Carbon Cutters.<\/p>\n<p>There will be an event on Saturday 18th March between 1 &#038; 3 pm to Celebrate the work of the South Abingdon Children&#8217;s Centre which is in danger of closing.  People are very sad that this brilliant local facility is being cut off in it&#8217;s prime. This will be a chance to look back at all it has achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Other groups are still trying to work out a future for the much needed centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It began life as the Family Centre and was run by the NCH (National Children&#8217;s Home). There was quite a controversy when PACT took over running the centre back in 2006. As well as being a centre for young families, it was also a place with meeting rooms for community groups in South Abingdon. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113","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=18113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}