{"id":721516,"date":"2026-07-31T19:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721516\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:50:12","slug":"fundraising-weekend-for-late-worcestershire-cricketer-josh-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721516\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising weekend for late Worcestershire cricketer Josh Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Rhymes, the media manager at Worcestershire County Cricket Club, said the weekend would be filled with family-friendly events, as well as a live mural which would be a permanent tribute to Josh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wherever you look, wherever you turn, there&#8217;s people that have been involved in his journey,&#8221; Rhymes said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to do everything we can to remember Josh as a person and a cricketer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking about the JB33 Foundation, Paul said: &#8220;The aim of the foundation is to provide cricketing opportunities where finance is a barrier for that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been supporting coaching, getting coaches coached, where families struggle to get to games, for summer cricket camps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Anything cricket related, we want to support, because that&#8217;s what Josh&#8217;s love was and that&#8217;s what our love is too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Rhymes, the media manager at Worcestershire County Cricket Club, said the weekend would be filled with family-friendly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721516","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=721516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}