{"id":19700,"date":"2025-07-24T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19700\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:48:10","slug":"east-anglias-childrens-hospices-launches-book-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19700\/","title":{"rendered":"East Anglia&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospices launches book giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Free Books for Kids campaign is being run by East Anglia\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospices (EACH) across its 53 shops in East Anglia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The scheme allows children to visit an EACH shop and choose a book to keep during the summer holidays.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Genine Woodcock, retail central support manager at EACH, said: &#8220;We\u2019re thrilled to be running this fabulous initiative again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It\u2019s a regular school holiday event for us, and, as ever, we hope it encourages and entertains young readers throughout the summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It\u2019s always popular and well-received, particularly during the school holidays when families may be struggling for low-cost ideas to keep children entertained.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  EACH supports families and cares for children with life-threatening conditions across East Anglia through its three hospices: The Nook in Framingham Earl, The Treehouse in Ipswich, and Milton near Cambridge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The charity relies heavily on public support, needing to raise \u00a38million this year from donations and fundraising, and a further \u00a39.8m from retail income.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Only 15% of its funding comes from government sources, including county councils and the NHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Free Books for Kids campaign is being run by East Anglia\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospices (EACH) across its 53&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-19700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700","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=19700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}