{"id":393836,"date":"2026-01-07T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393836\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:06:08","slug":"frome-counselling-charity-for-cancer-patients-at-risk-of-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393836\/","title":{"rendered":"Frome counselling charity for cancer patients at risk of closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A charity which offers counselling for people with cancer and their loved ones is facing closure unless it can raise \u00a355,000 before April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosses at Frome-based We Hear You (WHY) say rising costs and a fall in income means the charity is in need of more donations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WHY has been running for 31 years and supports about 500 people a year, giving them a space to talk about their illness. The charity says it acts as a &#8220;lifeline&#8221; for those who need it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chief operating officer Lucy Kitchener said she remained &#8220;optimistic&#8221; it could weather the storm and added the team was doing everything it can to &#8220;make sure the doors stay open&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A charity which offers counselling for people with cancer and their loved ones is facing closure unless it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-393836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}