{"id":18611,"date":"2020-05-17T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=18611"},"modified":"2020-05-17T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T08:32:15","slug":"a-thank-you-from-the-dorcas-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=18611","title":{"rendered":"A thank you from The Dorcas  Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dorcas.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dorcas.jpeg 293w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dorcas-148x69.jpeg 148w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dorcas-31x14.jpeg 31w, https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Dorcas-38x18.jpeg 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size\"> Thanks to many generous local  donations, and with a focus to fundraise  to enable The Dorcas Dress Project to set up a new sewing and craft hub,  a few Mothers\u2019 Union members were amongst a team of dressmakers local  to our Ducklington branch making scrubs for GP surgeries, NHS staff and  carers in our area. \u00a0It was good fun batch cutting the trousers and  tops, realising there was a wealth of eager seamstresses in the local  area and witnessing the gratitude of all the scrubs\u2019 recipients. \u00a0Here  is a sample of some of the scrubs that made their way to Cheltenham  district hospital. \u00a0Between us we made over 100 outfits and clothed well  over 35 key workers at the same time as securing funds to enable us to  provide the sewing resources and equipment to set up a crafting hub. \u00a0If  your branch is interested in being a hub please let me know. \u00a0Maria  Skoyles (Ducklington branch) and on behalf of The Dorcas Dress Project (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:doracsdressproject@gmail.com\">doracsdressproject@gmail.com<\/a>) <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to many generous local donations, and with a focus to fundraise to enable The Dorcas Dress Project to set up a new sewing and craft hub, a few Mothers\u2019 Union members were amongst a team of dressmakers local to our Ducklington branch making scrubs for GP surgeries, NHS staff and carers in our area.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-covid","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18613,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611\/revisions\/18613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}