“It was a very powerful day. It felt like the community got so much from it.”<\/p>\n
He said: “This year one of the team said ‘are we going to do this again?’ and we all said ‘of course we are, we’d be silly not to'”<\/p>\n
This year has gone “crazy” with people offering to donate, he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s incredibly humbling, when you have an idea that you think might help other people, and everyone else jumps in and says they want to be a part of it as well, it’s incredibly validating,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had donations from Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Asda, but also members of the public. I think it’s what Chorley does well. <\/p>\n
“When someone needs help this is the sort of area and the sort of football club where that just happens because it’s the right thing to do. <\/p>\n
“But there’s a bigger message there – it’s the time of year where it’s not just about looking after yourself, it’s about considering what other people are going through.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It was a very powerful day. It felt like the community got so much from it.” He said:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-326245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326245","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=326245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}