{"id":6421,"date":"2012-04-22T21:56:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T20:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6421"},"modified":"2012-04-22T21:56:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T20:56:39","slug":"clubs-and-societies-day-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6421","title":{"rendered":"Clubs and Societies Day &#8211; 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are some more of the stalls I visited at the Clubs and Societies Day &#8211; organised by Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council..<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12042201.jpg\" alt=\"Clubs and Societies Day\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thenasiotrust.org\/\">The Nasio Trust<\/a> is a UK based charity that works with AIDS orphans and destitute children in Western Kenya. They also have projects to empower and help young people in our own country. A group of teenagers from Abingdon have been doing their own fundraising events culminating in a trip to an orphanage in Kenya. \u00a0They are just back and as well as volunteering to do tasks at the orphanage, they also got to know some of the children they were helping, played football with local teams, and had an amazing life changing experience.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12042202.jpg\" alt=\"Clubs and Societies Day\" \/><br \/>\nAcross from them were Amnesty International who were asking people to sign cards such as this one showing our support for people overseas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12042203.jpg\" alt=\"Clubs and Societies Day\" \/><br \/>\nNear the entrance, The Vale Disability Access Group were there. They campaign for better access to facilities in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12042204.jpg\" alt=\"Clubs and Societies Day\" \/><br \/>\nA more general view of the hall shows Amnesty International, The Nasio Trust , and the Abingdon Marathon organisers in front. Behind them are The Morris Men, Abingdon Film Society, and the Abingdon Hydro Project.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12042205.jpg\" alt=\"Clubs and Societies Day\" \/><br \/>\nLastly for today ( a few more tomorrow), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdon-drama-club.com\/\">Abingdon Drama Club<\/a>&#8216;s next production will be Wife After Death. They have just finished a run of Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco&#8217;s play &#8216;Rhinoceros&#8217; at the Unicorn Theatre. Anybody who went may recognise that the actor manning the stall was The Logician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are some more of the stalls I visited at the Clubs and Societies Day &#8211; organised by Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council.. The Nasio Trust is a UK based charity that works with AIDS orphans and destitute children in Western Kenya. They also have projects to empower and help young people in our own country. 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":[39,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-and-society","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421","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=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}