{"id":2003,"date":"2017-05-22T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2017-05-25T09:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:14:24","slug":"kent-alumni-and-students-volunteer-to-support-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2017\/05\/22\/kent-alumni-and-students-volunteer-to-support-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent alumni and students volunteer to support homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of 10 Kent alumni and students volunteered at the Catching Lives Day Centre in Canterbury on Saturday 20 May as part of a new initiative in partnership with Kent Union. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1843936875631842\/\">Kent Gives Back<\/a> enables graduates and students to work together for a local community cause and help people and projects that matter to them. It&#8217;s also a fun and rewarding way for alumni and students to share stories about their experiences at and after Kent!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4973.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2005 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4973-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4973-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4973-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4973-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4973-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Volunteers ran social activities with clients and helped centre staff to clean and organise the facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Alumna Jessica Farnham (Rutherford 2002) said of the experience: \u201cIt was great to work with students and fellow alumni and be able to make a very small difference to a fantastic cause by interacting with the service users. I can\u2019t wait to get involved again for future projects\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4977.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2006 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4977-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4977-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4977-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4977-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_4977-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\">Got a project you think Kent Gives Back could help with? Contact Volunteer Management Officer Kasia Senyszyn at <a href=\"mailto:alumni@kent.ac.uk\">alumni@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/Kent-Gives-Back_FB-300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2008 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/Kent-Gives-Back_FB-300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/Kent-Gives-Back_FB-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/Kent-Gives-Back_FB-300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of 10 Kent alumni and students volunteered at the Catching Lives Day Centre in Canterbury on Saturday 20 May as part of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2017\/05\/22\/kent-alumni-and-students-volunteer-to-support-homeless\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":2004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}