{"id":333891,"date":"2025-12-24T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:15:07","slug":"new-street-station-hosts-300-homeless-people-for-annual-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333891\/","title":{"rendered":"New Street Station hosts 300 homeless people for annual meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MLSS is a charity based on the Sikh principle of dasvand, which involves giving 10% of your time and earnings to help those less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Singh added: &#8220;For many people, the festive season is not a time of joy but one of deep loneliness, isolation, and despair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know that suicide rates rise at this time of year, and for those with no family, no home, and no-one checking in on them, Christmas can feel unbearable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are there to serve them, to listen, to show care and compassion, and to make them feel truly special. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In our eighth year working with Network Rail, this meal represents everything we stand for at MLSS: Dignity, equality, and the belief that no-one should feel alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLSS is a charity based on the Sikh principle of dasvand, which involves giving 10% of your time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-333891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333891","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=333891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}