{"id":35683,"date":"2026-07-25T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35683"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:03:43","slug":"saturday-round-up-charity-fundraising-shop-changes-and-a-busy-market-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35683","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Round-Up: Charity Fundraising, Shop Changes,  and a Busy Market Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/20260702503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI thought I heard the town crier making a proclamation at around 10:30 am this morning, but after walking around the town I was none the wiser as to what the announcement was about. Perhaps it was that <em>Paws &amp; Play @ Willows<\/em> had a fundraising stall for the Against Breast Cancer charity, selling off items from the Paint Abingdon Pink day which\u00a0 has raised about \u00a34,500 so far for the cause.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/20260702502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn Stert Street, Lottie&#8217;s Bakeaway has closed after three and a half years, with the owner saying the business no longer fitted in with family life.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/20260702504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBrown&#8217;s Butchers had a queue when I walked past but not as long as their first day.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/20260702501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTimpsons also had a steady queue of customers for the various services from shoe repairs to key cutting to passport photos that they provide.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/20260702505.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a warm and sunny Saturday, with plenty of people enjoying the caf\u00e9s around the Market Place. There was a story in the Abingdon Herald, saying that Starbucks, one of the many coffee shops, could leave Abingdon later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The British Heart Foundation shop are also at risk of closing, as the British Heart Foundation are reducing the number of shops they operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I heard the town crier making a proclamation at around 10:30 am this morning, but after walking around the town I was none the wiser as to what the announcement was about. Perhaps it was that Paws &amp; Play @ Willows had a fundraising stall for the Against Breast Cancer charity, selling off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683","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=35683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}