{"id":368796,"date":"2026-04-08T01:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368796\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:59:10","slug":"kidderminster-mental-health-campaign-continues-despite-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/368796\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidderminster mental health campaign continues despite injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Collins had initially planned to walk the full route to 10 Downing Street to deliver the petition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I went down a really steep hill and popped one of the cartilages in my knee,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I walked through Long Marston thinking, &#8216;it&#8217;ll go away, it&#8217;ll go away&#8217; and the next day I could barely walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His wife, Lisa, stepped in to continue the walk, with Rob expecting to rejoin on Thursday to complete the final stretch into central London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family hope to reach Downing Street on Saturday and their eldest son, Drew, plans to walk the last three days with his father. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rob Collins said young people dealing with mental health problems &#8220;deserve better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We would do this a million times over if it could have saved Mitch,&#8221; said Lisa Collins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do not want any child, family or friends to go through what we have gone through.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collins had initially planned to walk the full route to 10 Downing Street to deliver the petition. &#8220;I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-368796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}