{"id":1397,"date":"2025-08-22T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?page_id=1397"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:51:02","slug":"our-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?page_id=1397","title":{"rendered":"Our news"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list is-grid columns-2 has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1385\">Afternoon Tea<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-08-21T17:01:56+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">August 21, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Lovely to see so many people at the Afternoon Tea yesterday at North Hants Golf Club. They gave us a great time, as they have in previous visits. Many thanks to Mavis who organized and ran the whole event and to Richard who put on a raffle having &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1385\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Afternoon Tea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1377\">Donation from Squirrel pub<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-08-21T15:28:39+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">August 21, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Well done and thank you to Melanie, a regular quizzer at the Squirrel pub in Farnborough. Each month the pub chooses a local charity to support and she persuaded the owner to choose us to receive some of the proceeds from the weekly quiz to us. \u00a3270 !<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1372\">Donation from Rushmoor Rotary Club<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-08-21T15:14:57+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">August 21, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">We were blown away at our July monthly social meeting when Andy Blake made a donation to our branch. Andy had been president of the Rushmoor Rotary branch for the past year and in that role he did some fund-raising for a charity of his choice. We knew &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donation from Rushmoor Rotary Club&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1370\">Accessible Boating trips on Basingstoke Canal<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-07-15T14:59:18+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">July 15, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">We&#8217;ve enjoyed two trips with the Accessible Boating Association on their day boat, &#8220;Dawn&#8221;. On both days we were blessed with good weather and we even had a free table for our picnic at Winchfield. A relaxing peaceful way to spend a few hours.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1380\">Open garden success<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-06-25T15:32:32+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 25, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Many of us know Anita Dempsey as the excellent leader of our Move It or Lose It class on Thursdays. She is also a passionate gardener and she opened her garden to visitors in late June. It was during one of our heatwaves with very high temperatures forecast &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open garden success&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1144\">Paul Mayhew Archer : The Incurable Optimist<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-06-22T17:02:00+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">June 22, 2023<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">On June 9th , we were honoured to host Paul Mayhew Archer who presented his \u201cIncurable Optimist\u201d show. Paul is a comedy writer best known as the co-writer of The Vicar of Dibley. Paul was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s in 2011 aged 58 and found that his way of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul Mayhew Archer : The Incurable Optimist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1137\">Cream Tea for World Parkinson&#8217;s Day<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-04-22T16:45:00+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 22, 2023<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">To mark World Parkinson&#8217;s Day in April, we held a Cream Tea at the Key Centre in Elvetham Heath. The idea of having a cream tea came from the Oxford branch. Not sure why it was chosen but it was certainly a good idea. We didn\u2019t run this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=1137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cream Tea for World Parkinson&#8217;s Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=631\">Ukelele concert<\/a><time datetime=\"2018-03-17T19:05:01+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">March 17, 2018<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">What is the best compliment a group can get at the end of a concert? A member of the audience coming up and asking if they can perform at another event! This is what happened when Kevin Manley brought a small ukulele group to our November social evening &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/?p=631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ukelele concert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1397\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkinsons-farnborough.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}