{"id":7351,"date":"2012-09-20T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7351"},"modified":"2012-09-20T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:41:00","slug":"wren-grant-finances-improvements-at-preston-road-community-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7351","title":{"rendered":"Summer improvements at Preston Road Community Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a330,000 worth of refurbishment work has been completed at Preston Road Community Centre over the summer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12091902.jpg\" alt=\"Preston Road Community Centre\" \/><br \/>\nThe ladies\u2019 toilets have been completely refurbished by local business, Abingdon Bathrooms.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12091903.jpg\" alt=\"Preston Road Community Centre\" \/><br \/>\nNew energy efficient boilers have been installed, new doors added, and more storage created for community groups by better use of space.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12091901.jpg\" alt=\"Preston Road Community Centre\" \/><br \/>\nThis picture shows the ex leader of The Vale of White Horse District Council (2009-2011) , Tony De Vere, helping to paint the new storage area this afternoon. His wife Mary is one of the main stays of \u00a0the Community Centre and Tony is often on hand to help out when needed.<\/p>\n<p>The recent work was funded by WREN \u2013Waste Recycling Environmental &#8211; to the sum of \u00a0\u00a321,000. The Vale of White Horse District Council gave \u00a32,607 and Abingdon Town Council gave \u00a31,000. \u00a0The rest of the money was raised by the Community Centre.\u00a0Previously WREN grants have helped refurbish the men&#8217;s loos (2008) and the kitchen (2006).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prcca.org.uk\/\">Preston Road Community Centre<\/a> is the local community centre for 11,000 inhabitants of Abingdon \u2013 one third of the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a330,000 worth of refurbishment work has been completed at Preston Road Community Centre over the summer. The ladies\u2019 toilets have been completely refurbished by local business, Abingdon Bathrooms. New energy efficient boilers have been installed, new doors added, and more storage created for community groups by better use of space. This picture shows the ex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-community-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351","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=7351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}