{"id":605247,"date":"2026-04-15T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:00:08","slug":"mental-health-bench-unveiled-in-godalming-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605247\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health bench unveiled in Godalming park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bench, created by charity Legend on the Bench, is the 110th of its kind in the UK, with another in Godalming&#8217;s Broadwater Park, and others in Guildford, Leatherhead and Woking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Waverley Borough Council said it was &#8220;pleased to help bring this meaningful initiative to Godalming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bench was unveiled by former Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton and Guildford City footballer David Howells on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Howells, who is from Guildford, said: &#8220;This bench gives hope and there are messages that someone is there listening, and there to talk to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it changes one person&#8217;s mind then it has all been worthwhile.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bench, created by charity Legend on the Bench, is the 110th of its kind in the UK,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-605247","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\/605247","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=605247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}