{"id":1926,"date":"2013-09-03T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T09:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2013-09-03T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T09:30:17","slug":"a-warm-welcome-sporty-fundraising-and-the-latest-alalay-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"A warm welcome, sporty fundraising and the latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Falalay.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D1926&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>Last evening I had the pleasure of speaking to an assembled group from the Church of the Good Shepherd Ladies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Group, Bishopston. The ladies (and one honorary man!) were very supportive of my work, had some great future ideas and even made some early Christmas card orders! Thank you to Joanne and the rest of the group for making me feel so welcome.<\/p>\n<p>September is a busy month for Friends of <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smiley-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1934\" alt=\"smiley 2\" src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smiley-2-300x244.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smiley-2-300x244.jpg 300w, http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smiley-2.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Alalay in terms of fundraising. This Sunday (8th September) supporter Laura Swan will be competing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runtothebeat.co.uk\/home-page\" target=\"_blank\">Run to the Beat<\/a> half marathon [sponsor her great running effort <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/Laura-Swan3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>] and later in the month\u00c2 Jay and Oliver will be cycling across Europe and Asia, also for the Bolivian street children! [Find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/rocktorockcycle\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we recently sent out our latest newsletter telling much more about current goings-on in a one-page summary. You can view it <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/newsletter-summer-2013.pdf\">here<\/a> and see previous editions <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?page_id=1036\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Do <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?page_id=38\" target=\"_blank\">contact us<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to receive our newsletter in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your continuing support &#8211; we couldn&#8217;t do it without you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening I had the pleasure of speaking to an assembled group from the Church of the Good Shepherd Ladies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Group, Bishopston. The ladies (and one honorary man!) were very supportive of my work, had some great future ideas and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=1926\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}