{"id":41,"date":"2012-02-08T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-02-26T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T14:05:42","slug":"bowled-over-by-primary-schools-fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/2012\/02\/08\/bowled-over-by-primary-schools-fundraising\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowled over by Primary School’s fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"

As reported in the Melton Times<\/p>\n

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A PRIMARY school has donated money towards widening children\u2019s experiences in Uganda by teaching them to play cricket.<\/p>\n

Redmile Primary School\u2019s council handed over a cheque for \u00a372.55, which was raised at the school\u2019s Christmas raffle, to Darren Bicknell of the Belvoir Castle Cricket Trust.<\/p>\n

The money will go towards the Cricket Without Boundaries Aids awareness charity, which is dedicated to helping, educating and developing local communities around the world through the spread and growth of cricket.<\/p>\n

Darren said: \u201cThe money was a wonderful gesture and will help us buy cricket equipment to be given to schools in Uganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he came to collect the cheque, Darren bought a selection of bats and balls with him for the children to sign and has promised to send photos of the Uganda children paying with them.<\/p>\n

A further amount was raised at the Christmas raffle for the St Peter\u2019s Church roof restoration fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As reported in the Melton Times A PRIMARY school has donated money towards widening children\u2019s experiences in Uganda by teaching them to play cricket. Redmile Primary School\u2019s council handed over a cheque for \u00a372.55, which was raised at the school\u2019s Christmas raffle, to Darren Bicknell of the Belvoir Castle Cricket Trust. The money will go towards the Cricket Without Boundaries Aids awareness charity, which is dedicated to helping, educating and developing local communities around the world through the spread and growth of cricket. Darren said: \u201cThe money was a wonderful gesture and will help us buy cricket equipment to be given to schools in Uganda.\u201d When he came to collect the cheque, Darren bought a selection of bats and balls with him for the children to sign and has promised to send photos of the Uganda children paying with them. A further amount was raised at the Christmas raffle for the St Peter\u2019s Church roof restoration fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwbblogs.com\/uganda2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}