{"id":33983,"date":"2025-07-16T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33983"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:29:10","slug":"flexicare-charity-celebrates-40th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33983","title":{"rendered":"Flexicare Charity Celebrates 40th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025071701.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFlexicare held a party to celebrate their 40th birthday. Over 100 people went along \u2014 families, supporters, and team members, both present and past , including some from when the charity began in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>There was party food, crafts, balloon animals, model trains, a sensory tent, and a visit from some Shetland Therapy Ponies.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting the birthday cake, were two of the founders, Sara Hall and Sue Kenrick, joined by Paul, one of the first Flexicare children.<\/p>\n<p>Flexicare (Oxford &#038; Abingdon) is a charity that offers free, flexible support to families with disabled children. They provide trained sitters so that parents and carers can take a break, knowing their child is in safe hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flexicare held a party to celebrate their 40th birthday. Over 100 people went along \u2014 families, supporters, and team members, both present and past , including some from when the charity began in 1985. There was party food, crafts, balloon animals, model trains, a sensory tent, and a visit from some Shetland Therapy Ponies. Cutting [&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-33983","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\/33983","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=33983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}