{"id":531789,"date":"2026-04-15T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:29:07","slug":"mental-health-bench-unveiled-in-godalming-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531789\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health bench unveiled in Godalming park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bench, created by charity Legend on the Bench, is the 110th of its kind in the UK, with another in Godalming&#8217;s Broadwater Park, and others in Guildford, Leatherhead and Woking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Waverley Borough Council said it was &#8220;pleased to help bring this meaningful initiative to Godalming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bench was unveiled by former Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton and Guildford City footballer David Howells on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Howells, who is from Guildford, said: &#8220;This bench gives hope and there are messages that someone is there listening, and there to talk to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it changes one person&#8217;s mind then it has all been worthwhile.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bench, created by charity Legend on the Bench, is the 110th of its kind in the UK,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-531789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531789","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=531789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}