{"id":96286,"date":"2025-08-27T12:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96286\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:26:11","slug":"celebrity-martin-clunes-to-appear-at-weldmar-summer-fete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96286\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Martin Clunes to appear at Weldmar Summer Fete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Martin Clunes will be joining Weldmar Hospicecare&#8217;s fundraising event at the Weldmar Hospicecare Inpatient Unit, Herringston Road, Dorchester on Saturday, September 13 from 11am to 4pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This will be Weldmar&#8217;s 28th traditional summer fete and will feature fun, games, prizes, entertainment and more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A variety of bands and musicians will perform, there will be a selection of stalls, food and drink and an entertainment area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There will also be prizes to be won\u00a0in the\u00a0mystery box draw.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Clunes, star of Doc Martin and Men Behaving Badly, lives in west Dorset and has been a long-term supporter of Weldmar, which provides free end of life care for adults with a life limiting illness, and support for their loved ones.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Organisers say: &#8220;Martin will be delivering a welcome message, getting involved in some of the traditional fete games we have on offer, and he&#8217;s always happy to stop for a selfie or two!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Martin Clunes\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Martin Clunes\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We&#8217;re all set for it to be a fantastic day of fun, community spirit and fundraising to support the specialist end of life care we provide for adults with life limiting illnesses in Dorset, and their loved ones.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Come along, enjoy the summer celebrations, and who knows &#8211; you might even beat Martin at the human fruit machine&#8230;&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Entry is \u00a32 for adults and it&#8217;s free entry for children under 16.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There is no parking on site but visitors can use a free park and ride service which will run roughly every 25 minutes from Dorchester South Railway Station from 10.30am to 3.55pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Clunes will be joining Weldmar Hospicecare&#8217;s fundraising event at the Weldmar Hospicecare Inpatient Unit, Herringston Road, Dorchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-96286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96286","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=96286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}