{"id":541,"date":"2008-11-18T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/11\/18\/champion-fund-raiser\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T00:07:00","slug":"champion-fund-raiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Champion Fund Raiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08111702.jpg\" \/><br \/>Andrew, on the left, is a young fund raiser who stages the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100121073422\/http:\/\/www.eventaid.org:80\/8599\/\">Play2Give football tournament<\/a> . He is ably assisted by Maxine in the center.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was treated for a brain tumour and since then has become a champion fund raiser for the Oxford Children&#8217;s Hospital. Each year he and friends also select a second good cause, and this year it was the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901171421\/http:\/\/www.abingdontownabc.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Town Amateur Boxing Club<\/a> Gym Fund.<\/p>\n<p>After the presentation to the hospital, Alison, on the right, another champion fund raiser, was there to receive the money on behalf of the boxing club.<br \/>&#8230;&#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08111701.JPG\" \/><br \/>One event missed on Saturday was a remarkable queue on Stert Street. <a href=\"http:\/\/mostly-books.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/amazing-monsieur-blanc.html\">The Mostly Books Blog<\/a> has the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew, on the left, is a young fund raiser who stages the annual Play2Give football tournament . He is ably assisted by Maxine in the center. Andrew was treated for a brain tumour and since then has become a champion fund raiser for the Oxford Children&#8217;s Hospital. Each year he and friends also select a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}