{"id":347688,"date":"2026-01-02T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347688\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:07:10","slug":"new-years-day-tractor-convoy-raises-money-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347688\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Day tractor convoy raises money for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 120 tractors turned out for a New Year&#8217;s Day drive to raise money for an air ambulance trust and a mental health charity supporting farmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organised by the Somerset Tractor Runners, the vehicles paraded through Kingsbury Episcopi, East Lambrook, Merriott, Long Sutton and Drayton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now in its sixth year, organisers said they were hoping to raise up to \u00a310,000 for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance and Somerset-based mental health charity Farmerados.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year 122 tractors joined the run, and volunteers with buckets collected donations from members of the public along the route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 120 tractors turned out for a New Year&#8217;s Day drive to raise money for an air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-347688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347688","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=347688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}