{"id":34031,"date":"2025-07-27T22:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34031"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:21:38","slug":"a-day-of-reading-painting-giving-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34031","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Reading, Painting &#038; Giving in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Sarah for this report.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025072702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Sunday, 27th July, two local community groups \u2014 the <em>Abingdon Silent Book Club<\/em> and <em>Crafting Optional @ the Grim Dark Society<\/em> \u2014 came together for a day of calm, creativity, and community spirit. This took place at <em>Paws &amp; Play @ Willows<\/em> in Bury Street.<\/p>\n<p>The day began with the <em>Abingdon Silent Book Club<\/em>. Over a dozen book lovers gathered to share what they were reading before settling into a hour of silent reading, accompanied by delicious milkshakes and bacon baps (or their preferred treats).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025072701.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIn the afternoon, the <em>Crafting Optional group<\/em> led a Bob Ross painting session for charity. Following a Bob Ross tutorial, each participant created their own interpretation of the scene.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025072703.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAs a lasting tribute to the day, the paintings will be hung in the<em> Paws &amp; Play caf\u00e9<\/em> for the public to enjoy \u2014 turning the space into a mini-gallery of community art.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the event raised over \u00a3300 for four local charities:<br \/>\n\ud83d\udc31 Cats Protection<br \/>\n\ud83c\udf97\ufe0f Against Breast Cancer<br \/>\n\ud83d\udc3e Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary<br \/>\n\ud83c\udf0d The Nasio Trust<\/p>\n<p>Sarah says, &#8216;<em>A huge thank you to everyone who attended, donated, and helped make the day such a success!<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Sarah for this report. On Sunday, 27th July, two local community groups \u2014 the Abingdon Silent Book Club and Crafting Optional @ the Grim Dark Society \u2014 came together for a day of calm, creativity, and community spirit. This took place at Paws &amp; Play @ Willows in Bury Street. The day began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-community-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34031","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=34031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}