{"id":2300,"date":"2018-03-12T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T11:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2018-03-12T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T11:32:25","slug":"pali-supports-local-special-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/pali-supports-local-special-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pali Supports Local Special Needs Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Pali is proud to support a fundraising event that is taking place in April which will be raising funds for a small Special Needs Charity on the Wirral called The Belvidere Centre.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2305 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2f5e488e-3b05-4d44-b2e1-9ef0fe831840-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The Belvidere Centre was founded in 1971 as a place for children and young adults with additional needs to\u00a0socialise. The centre has evolved since then and now strives for social\u00a0inclusion for everyone and welcome people of ALL abilities. The Belvidere Centre is no longer supported by the council so rely solely on fundraising, donations and other independent income to stay open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Sadly, due to lack of funding, each year the Belvidere Centre never knows\u00a0if it will be able to run the holiday club. The holiday club is a big part a lot of families lives who have children<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u00a0with additional needs as it enables parents who work contin<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">ue to go to work in the holidays and it allows parents who don&#8217;t necessary work\/work full time to have a well needed break whilst their child\u00a0is in safe hands, having fun and mixing with other children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Pali are supporting Steve, husband of Pali&#8217;s Marketing Director Jo Milne, who is going to be taking part in the Dirty Reiver 130km off road cycling challenge on 21st\u00a0April 2018.\u00a0The Dirty Reiver challenge\u00a0is based on the Gravel Grinder format found predominantly in the mid-west of\u00a0America. Steve is a keen cyclist however this is by far the biggest challenge he has ever attempted. Steve told us\u00a0 &#8216;I know it is going to be incredibly hard, but I am doing it for\u00a0a worthy cause that is very important to me and my family.\u00a0I am taking on this cycling challenge\u00a0to raise money for the Belvidere Centre, that\u00a0my son, George, attends.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Other businesses supporting the cause include BBH Legal, a law firm who are organising a dress down day with a raffle where all proceeds will go to the charity and Copeland Group Services, a security firm who generously donated a whopping \u00a3500 to the fundraiser.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2304 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Logos-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"> Steve is going to try and raise \u00a32000 to make sure the Play-scheme can continue to run for this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">If you would like to support Steve and his fundraiser for the Belvidere Centre please visit his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/steve-m78\">Just Giving Page here.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read how Pali proudly supports local Special Needs Charity, The Belvidere Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,54,45,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-charity","category-conveyancing","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paliltd.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}