{"id":11811,"date":"2015-11-23T00:23:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11811"},"modified":"2015-11-20T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T12:32:56","slug":"free-christmas-community-event-by-radio-solent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/free-christmas-community-event-by-radio-solent","title":{"rendered":"Free Christmas community event by Radio Solent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">Radio Solent will be hosting a special live broadcast of a community event, inspired by a lonely pensioner, Bill Palmer. The local radio station will be getting together with the local charities to host the free community event for this Christmas, on 9<sup>th<\/sup> December, as &#8220;The Big Christmas Cuppa&#8221;, to be hosted at the Southampton Guildhall (O2 Guildhall). The free event is open to all and guests will get to enjoy mince pie and a cuppa with Alex Dyke and Katie Martin, the presentators. Activities at the event include a physical M.O.T. for above 60s, an afternoon tea dance and also meeting of many local charities and services. They include The Silver Line, Hampshire Fire Services and Age UK.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">The inspiration for the event came when a 95 year old pensioner, Bill Palmer, a listener to BBC studios, participated in &#8216;Love later in life&#8217;, a phone-in show, where he chatted to other listeners. He told of his loneliness and his loved one in a care home. Bill&#8217;s story made the national headlines. The radio station hopes to attract older people, in an effort to fight loneliness and isolation of people in the area. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastleighnews.co.uk\/2015\/11\/radio-solent-to-host-free-christmas-event\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free tickets<\/a> are available for the programme by calling on 023-80631311 to the BBC Radio Solent. Or call on 023-80632601 for the box-office at O2 Guildhall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Solent will be hosting a special live broadcast of a community event, inspired by a lonely pensioner, Bill Palmer. The local radio station will be getting together with the local charities to host the free community event for this Christmas, on 9th December, as &#8220;The Big Christmas Cuppa&#8221;, to be hosted at the Southampton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11812,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions\/11812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}