{"id":693607,"date":"2026-07-15T20:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693607\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:35:20","slug":"weymouth-home-care-team-raise-more-than-700-for-macmillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693607\/","title":{"rendered":"Weymouth home care team raise more than \u00a3700 for Macmillan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Jurassic Coast Mighty Hike began and ended at Norden Farm in Wareham, taking walkers across rugged coastal terrain and steep climbs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tiffany Meachim, branch manager at Kingsley Home Care in Weymouth, and care co-ordinator Kate Stone took part in the trek.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Meachim said: &#8220;Working in home care means we spend our days helping others stay safe, comfortable, and independent in the place they love most.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Tiffany Meachim and Kate Stone from Kingsley Home Care&#8217;s Weymouth branch have raised more than \u00a3700 for Macmillan Cancer Support after completing the charity&#8217;s gruelling 26-mile Mighty Hike along Dorset&#8217;s Jurassic Coast. (Image: Kingsley Healthcare)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorsetecho.co.uk\/news\/26276806.bittern-breeds-rspb-lodmoor---first-breeding-record-dorset-since-1883\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bittern breeds at RSPB Lodmoor &#8211; the first breeding record in Dorset since 1883<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We see strength, resilience, and courage every single day \u2013 and it&#8217;s those very people who inspired us to take on this challenge.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The route covered more than 2,000 metres of elevation over rocky paths and cliff edges, with Ms Meachim describing the hike as &#8220;the hardest thing I have ever done.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Meachim said: &#8220;We covered a distance of 26 miles with over 2,000m of elevation in blazing sunshine throughout.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was an amazing event with fellow hikers offering encouragement, smiles, and camaraderie and staff and marshals doing an incredible job.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kingsley Home Care is part of the family-owned Kingsley Healthcare Group, which operates care homes across the UK, including four in Dorset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jurassic Coast Mighty Hike began and ended at Norden Farm in Wareham, taking walkers across rugged coastal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-693607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693607","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=693607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}