{"id":3687,"date":"2022-07-26T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2022-07-26T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:02:32","slug":"chartham-residents-take-part-in-a-walk-in-aid-of-the-parkinsons-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2022\/07\/26\/chartham-residents-take-part-in-a-walk-in-aid-of-the-parkinsons-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Chartham residents take part in a walk in aid of the Parkinson&#8217;s Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 13th July, one of the hottest days of the year so far, a walking group from Chartham took part in a sponsored walk along the River Stour to raise money for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/parkinsons\">Parkinson\u2019s Centre for Integrated Therapy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group raised the fantastic sum of \u00a3275 through sponsorship and a cake sale to support the new Parkinson\u2019s Centre which is set to open this autumn.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Harling, alumna and former staff member of the University of Kent, said &#8220;As a group, we wanted to do something to help those in our community and beyond who are living with Parkinson&#8217;s.\u00a0 Some of the group have experienced first hand how devastating a Parkinson&#8217;s diagnosis can be and we wanted to play our part in helping to raise funds to launch the Centre later this year.\u00a0 The walk was a most pleasant occasion and we enjoyed it all the more knowing we were making a difference to so many people&#8217;s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The University of Kent is most grateful for the group\u2019s efforts and thank them most sincerely for their support.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Elaine Newman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 13th July, one of the hottest days of the year so far, a walking group from Chartham took part in a sponsored walk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2022\/07\/26\/chartham-residents-take-part-in-a-walk-in-aid-of-the-parkinsons-centre\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2419,"featured_media":3688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118123,229063],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687"}],"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\/2419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3689,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}