{"id":779796,"date":"2026-09-23T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779796\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:56:09","slug":"theres-no-alternative-families-back-ledbury-charity-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779796\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There&#8217;s no alternative&#8217;: Families back Ledbury charity appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colin is one of hundreds of people who rely on the specialist support for neurological and motor conditions from Megan Baker House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those who come travel from across Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire for sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now families and staff are backing an urgent appeal to secure the charity&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among them is Simon, whose 11-year-old son Ollie has attended sessions at Megan Baker House for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the support helped Ollie learn to walk at the age of four and has provided benefits beyond physical therapy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not just the sessions and what Ollie gets from it, it&#8217;s that sort of social network as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Without Megan Baker House there&#8217;s just no services available.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin is one of hundreds of people who rely on the specialist support for neurological and motor conditions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779796","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=779796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}