{"id":793796,"date":"2026-10-06T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793796\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:24:20","slug":"bradley-lowery-holiday-home-finally-opens-doors-after-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793796\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Lowery holiday home finally opens doors after delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradley&#8217;s mother Gemma Lowery said a series of setbacks had delayed the project meaning the foundation had to continue raising money for longer than expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were just about to start the build and Covid happened,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Then the cost of labour and materials quadrupled, it was crazy the amount that went up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had the money fundraised to the point where it was enough, but then when the cost went up we didn&#8217;t so we had to continue fundraising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the &#8220;incredibly emotional&#8221; opening marked the culmination of years of fundraising and hard work to create a lasting legacy for her son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There have been challenges along the way, but knowing what this home will mean to so many children and their families makes every moment worthwhile,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t change what these families are going through, but we can give them somewhere to step away from it for a little while, be together and make memories that will last a lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradley&#8217;s mother Gemma Lowery said a series of setbacks had delayed the project meaning the foundation had to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793796","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=793796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}