{"id":193,"date":"2009-10-19T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/10\/19\/poppy-appeal\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T23:52:00","slug":"poppy-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Poppy Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09101901.jpg\" \/><br \/>Poppies were delivered to the shops last Saturday.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09101902.jpg\" \/><br \/>Last year Abingdon raised an outstanding amount of \u00a320,793.20 for the Poppy Appeal &#8211; a 63.32% increase on the year before giving us a trophy from the Berkshire Country Royal British Legion Manager.<\/p>\n<p>(Abingdon Legion still comes under the Berkshire County Organisation in the British Legion World!!  As it does in the Geneology and quite a few other Worlds).<\/p>\n<p>Mary Cadogan, our co-ordinator would like to thank all the people of Abingdon for supporting the Poppy Appeal and without them we could not have raised such an amazing amount of money.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09101903.jpg\" \/><br \/>The Poppy Appeal is in many peoples thoughts with the present conflict in Afghanistan and we are raising money to help the solders and their families both young and old. <\/p>\n<p>The poppies in Abingdon will be on sale for the next three weeks prior to Remembrance Sunday which is on 08 November 2009.<\/p>\n<p>There will be also be street collectors in the town centre and outside Tescos, Waitrose and Fairacres Retail Park, and door to door sellers around Abingdon from 24 October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone would be interested in becoming a poppy person this year helping sell poppies they can contact Mary Cadogan at the Royal British Legion, Spring Road, Abingdon tel: 07867 658159.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poppies were delivered to the shops last Saturday.Last year Abingdon raised an outstanding amount of \u00a320,793.20 for the Poppy Appeal &#8211; a 63.32% increase on the year before giving us a trophy from the Berkshire Country Royal British Legion Manager. (Abingdon Legion still comes under the Berkshire County Organisation in the British Legion World!! As [&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-193","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\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}