{"id":460814,"date":"2026-03-06T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:59:09","slug":"maggi-hambling-painting-raffle-raises-22k-for-suffolk-church-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460814\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggi Hambling painting raffle raises \u00a322k for Suffolk church fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raffle tickets for the painting, called Fireworks Above the Sea, were sold for \u00a310. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Cottam, chair of the Friends of St Mary&#8217;s Church, previously said the church wanted to install a low-carbon heating pump, which would also help toward the Church of England&#8217;s net zero target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aside from the raffle, the church has already set aside \u00a3100,000 and raised another \u00a330,000 in donations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rector of St Mary&#8217;s, the Reverend Nigel Prior, said the raffle fundraising was a &#8220;fantastic result&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The prize draw has been our best fundraiser to date and we are so grateful that over 1,000 people have supported us &#8211; not only from Woodbridge &#8211; but every other part of the country,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are particularly grateful to Maggi Hambling for donating this wonderful painting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She generously supports so many charities in this way, and if they are local to Suffolk, even more so.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raffle tickets for the painting, called Fireworks Above the Sea, were sold for \u00a310. Nick Cottam, chair of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460814","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=460814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}