{"id":119682,"date":"2025-09-07T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119682\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:11:14","slug":"red-funnel-launches-book-exchange-for-ferry-passengers-in-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119682\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Funnel launches book exchange for ferry passengers in Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A new book exchange is now up and running for ferry passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Red Funnel has launched the scheme at its Southampton and Hi-Speed terminals, giving travellers the chance to pick up something to read during their journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The idea was suggested by a cabin attendant through the company\u2019s First-Class Ideas programme and has been named the Read Funnel Library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Red Funnel launches Read Funnel Library(Image: Red Funnel)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fran Collins, CEO of Red Funnel, said: &#8220;We love seeing creative ideas like this come from our team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We hope our customers enjoy the new Read Funnel Library; whether it sparks inspiration, adds a touch of adventure, or simply offers a relaxing moment with a good book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25417577.month-long-campaign-will-shining-spotlight-southampton\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:READ MORE: Love the Old Town returns to Southampton with offers and events;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">READ MORE: Love the Old Town returns to Southampton with offers and events<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The scheme encourages donations in lieu of leaving a book, with all funds raised going to the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, Red Funnel\u2019s Charity of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The launch coincides with National Read a Book Day and precedes the Isle of Wight Literary Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new book exchange is now up and running for ferry passengers. Red Funnel has launched the scheme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,57149,57148,565,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-119682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-fran-collins","tag-red-funnel","tag-southampton","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}