{"id":350695,"date":"2026-01-03T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350695\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:52:07","slug":"swindon-woman-wears-1800-hats-in-five-years-for-air-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350695\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindon woman wears 1,800 hats in five years for air ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman has worn a different hat every day for the last five years to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hilary Fleming, from Wroughton near Swindon, has raised \u00a35,000 for the Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance with her colourful challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was inspired to take on the fundraiser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-67894163\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after the charity saved her husband, Shaun, twice,<\/a> once in 2013 and again in 2014, after he fell off a ladder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Fleming, who has worn 1,825 different hats so far, said the air ambulance team &#8220;got him to hospital quickly and basically saved his life. So as a payback I try and raise money&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has worn a different hat every day for the last five years to raise money for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-350695","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\/350695","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=350695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}