{"id":28330,"date":"2021-12-11T22:39:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28330"},"modified":"2021-12-11T22:39:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:39:31","slug":"volunteer-governor-needed-for-christs-hospital-of-abingdon-rotary-club-remembrance-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28330","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Governor needed for Christ&#8217;s Hospital of Abingdon \/ Rotary Club Remembrance Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021121102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch-of-abingdon.org\/\">Christ\u2019s Hospital of Abingdon<\/a>, Abingdon&#8217;s oldest charity  (established in 1553), are looking to recruit a volunteer Governor.  Governors provide strategic oversight of the charity\u2019s operations, and governors are likely to take responsibility for one of their aims and objectives:<br \/>\n\u2022 The care and maintenance of the town\u2019s historical Almshouses.<br \/>\n\u2022 Providing grants to those referred to the Charity by care agencies.<br \/>\n\u2022 Providing educational grants to school pupils from Abingdon in case of special need.<br \/>\n\u2022 Supporting local organizations deemed by the Governors to be of benefit to the residents of Abingdon.<br \/>\n\u2022 Providing a public service to the town by maintaining Albert Park for use by the people of Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>There is more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch-of-abingdon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/New-Gov-Ad-Nov-2021-V4-04122021.pdf\">here<\/a> or on the Christ&#8217;s Hospital website. I do know some people who would love to do this so hopefully they will see this.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/2021121101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Rotary Club of Abingdon Vesper had a stall on the Market Place, where people remembered a loved one by writing a message on one of the ribbons, which then got attached to the Remembrance Tree. Rotary support many local charities and also have overseas projects such as African fuel saving mud-stoves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ\u2019s Hospital of Abingdon, Abingdon&#8217;s oldest charity (established in 1553), are looking to recruit a volunteer Governor. Governors provide strategic oversight of the charity\u2019s operations, and governors are likely to take responsibility for one of their aims and objectives: \u2022 The care and maintenance of the town\u2019s historical Almshouses. \u2022 Providing grants to those referred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330","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=28330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}