{"id":450333,"date":"2026-02-28T13:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450333\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:26:16","slug":"winning-bbc-make-a-difference-award-has-made-incredible-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450333\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning BBC Make a Difference award has made &#8216;incredible difference&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hollie, who raises money for the Silver Star Maternity Fund with her team of family and friends, won the BBC Make a Difference Awards fundraiser category last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team holds a weekly market stall in Bicester and participates in fun days, fetes, carnivals and other events to raise money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She started fundraising after benefiting from its support during her own complicated pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nominations for this year&#8217;s awards are now open until 17:00 GMT on 31 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">See a <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/4qNj2Jw\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full list of categories and our terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp8rzx13ejxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollie, who raises money for the Silver Star Maternity Fund with her team of family and friends, won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-450333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450333","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=450333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}