{"id":25878,"date":"2020-08-20T21:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T21:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25878"},"modified":"2020-08-20T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T21:44:26","slug":"delight-as-turf-cut-at-new-site-to-save-canoe-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25878","title":{"rendered":"Delight as turf cut at new site to save canoe club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082003.jpg\" alt=\"Turf Cut\" \/><br \/>\nDelighted to see that work has begun on a new home for the Kingfisher Canoe Club. The club has battled hard and long since being evicted from the army rowing club land on Wilsham Road. A previous plan had fallen through at Rye Farm Meadow, nearby, but finally they gained planning permission to build a timber framed canoe storage and changing facility on Abingdon Lock Island.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082001.jpg\" alt=\"Turf Cut\" \/><br \/>\nIn April 2020, mid pandemic, they got the welcome news of a National Lottery \/ Sport England grant of \u00a336,000. This is in addition to grants from many local and national organisations, and from the club&#8217;s own fund raising activities. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/kingfishercc.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/kcc-press-release_nlse-grant-helps-keep-club-afloat-270420.pdf\">April press release<\/a> details all the donors.<\/p>\n<p>This will ensure the sustainability of a club that, over the last 45 years, has taught many people locally to use canoes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020082005.jpg\" alt=\"Turf Cut\" \/><br \/>\nTheir new home is close by some of the best white water on the River Thames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delighted to see that work has begun on a new home for the Kingfisher Canoe Club. The club has battled hard and long since being evicted from the army rowing club land on Wilsham Road. A previous plan had fallen through at Rye Farm Meadow, nearby, but finally they gained planning permission to build a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878","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=25878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}