{"id":28637,"date":"2022-02-27T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T21:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28637"},"modified":"2022-02-27T22:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T21:12:46","slug":"friends-of-st-helens-church-agm-and-surprising-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=28637","title":{"rendered":"Friends of St Helen&#8217;s Church &#8211; AGM and Surprising secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022022702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe AGM on Saturday 5th March 2022, in the South aisle of St Helen\u2019s church, will be followed at 3.45pm by a talk entitled \u2018Surprising secrets: a tour of St Helen\u2019s hidden rooms and archives\u2019, given by the former church archivist, Anne Smithson.<\/p>\n<p>The Friends of St Helen&#8217;s Church help preserve St Helen\u2019s Church for future generations. Routine repairs cost between \u00a310,000 and \u00a315,000 each year, and the friends help pay for these. <\/p>\n<p>The Friends want to encourage membership amongst people who live and work in the wider Abingdon community, and further afield. They run regular social and fund-raising events, and ensure that members are kept in touch with news of the church. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AGM on Saturday 5th March 2022, in the South aisle of St Helen\u2019s church, will be followed at 3.45pm by a talk entitled \u2018Surprising secrets: a tour of St Helen\u2019s hidden rooms and archives\u2019, given by the former church archivist, Anne Smithson. The Friends of St Helen&#8217;s Church help preserve St Helen\u2019s Church for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28637","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=28637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}