{"id":754309,"date":"2026-08-30T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754309\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:58:17","slug":"fundraiser-launched-for-the-kiwi-fruit-is-cute-crafting-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754309\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser launched for The Kiwi Fruit is Cute crafting shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shop is known for its Make &amp; Mingle sessions, which see people travel from far and wide with their own projects to knit, sew or craft in a group rather than complete the tasks at home alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charities, such as Oscar&#8217;s Community Corner, also use space in the shop for their own crafting projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Westmacott continued: &#8220;We are working other jobs and don&#8217;t take a wage from the business at all, we put everything back in. We are personally pushing our own finances into it to try and keep things going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As much as the business  is growing&#8230; it is a real struggle at the moment. We are in a difficult period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This [the fundraiser] is so we keep open and keep things inclusive and affordable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shop is known for its Make &amp; Mingle sessions, which see people travel from far and wide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-754309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754309","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=754309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}