{"id":626761,"date":"2026-10-10T22:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626761\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T22:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:08:17","slug":"founder-of-mental-health-community-cafe-in-kettering-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626761\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of mental health community cafe in Kettering to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The founder of a community cafe that provides mental health counselling is stepping down after 11 years at the helm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnny&#8217;s Happy Place in Kettering, Northamptonshire, was set up in 2014 by the family of Johnny Mackay, who died aged 29 after years of drug and alcohol addiction and undiagnosed mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His mother, Denise Mackay, 78, said she had decided to retire for health reasons, but the cafe, on Rockingham Road, would go on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even though I didn&#8217;t want to walk away, I knew that I had to because I couldn&#8217;t put the energy and the effort into all the things that I did successfully,&#8221; she told Annabel Amos on BBC Radio Northampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of a community cafe that provides mental health counselling is stepping down after 11 years at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-626761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626761","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=626761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}