{"id":815519,"date":"2026-10-27T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815519\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:20:11","slug":"police-investigate-theft-of-charity-sculpture-in-inverness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815519\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate theft of charity sculpture in Inverness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Centred Scotland supports people experiencing mental health difficulties across the Highlands and runs drop-in services and free guided wellbeing walks for people feeling lonely and isolated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity&#8217;s marketing and fundraising executive Alana Kotrys said it had been &#8220;very lucky&#8221; to get the beautiful scrap metal bird made for them by Helen Denerley who is best known for her large metal giraffes sculptures on Leith Walk in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It was amazing for us to get that collaboration with such a well-known artist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kotrys added that they hoped the sculpture might be returned in order to help the charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It would mean a lot to us to get it back, to be able to do with it what was intended, to raise some money to make a difference to people&#8217;s lives,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centred Scotland supports people experiencing mental health difficulties across the Highlands and runs drop-in services and free guided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815519","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=815519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}