{"id":238,"date":"2015-10-08T19:50:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/?p=238"},"modified":"2015-11-17T08:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T08:19:38","slug":"honouring-volunteers-past-and-present-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Honouring volunteers past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to have received a \u00a31000 donation from local resident Mandy Boyce this week, in memory of her father Brian Giblin, who was involved in building some of the original equipment on the playground.\u00a0 Mandy&#8217;s brother Peter and his wife Glenda still volunteer with us, and were also recognised this week with a civic award for their work, alongside volunteer Diane Johnson, our Chair Yanina Koszalinski and trustee Alan Hancock.<\/p>\n<p>Mandy said, &#8220;I thought about having a plaque on a bench to remember Dad, but donating the money to the playground seemed a more lasting tribute to his memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-234\" src=\"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20151007-WA0001\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151007-WA0001.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Architecture students at the University of Sheffield are currently undertaking a &#8220;Live Project&#8221; to design new self-build material equipment for the playground using salvaged and donated materials, and Mandy&#8217;s donation will ensure the designs can be built.\u00a0 Yanina said, &#8220;Self-build is an important part of our history and ethos, and we&#8217;re enormously grateful to Mandy for helping to carry on that tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Student Jess Beresford added, &#8220;The Live Project team are really excited to get this self-build project off the ground. We are asking for donations of spare or recycled materials from within the community and local businesses that might be able to drive our design.\u00a0 Please give generously! Your contribution will help the children in and around Pitsmoor to have a better quality of life that is focused on play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to have received a \u00a31000 donation from local resident Mandy Boyce this week, in memory of her father Brian Giblin, who was involved in building some of the original equipment on the playground.\u00a0 Mandy&#8217;s brother Peter and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/?p=238\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honouring volunteers past and present<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TEo6-3Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitsmooradventure.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}