{"id":294802,"date":"2025-11-16T08:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294802\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:48:07","slug":"wirrals-mums-call-for-lifeline-gym-creche-to-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294802\/","title":{"rendered":"Wirrals mums call for &#8216;lifeline&#8217; gym creche to be saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Hughes said using the creche was a &#8220;generational&#8221; thing in her family.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;My mum came here with me, and I am 32 now \u2013 that&#8217;s how long it&#8217;s being going.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She uses the creche every week with her two year old son Finley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Hughes said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a community for our children. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My son knows all the children and staff there. West Kirby Concourse is supposed to be a community place, so why take away the one thing here which is for the community?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Natalie added: &#8220;It means everything to me. I was a first time mum, quite isolated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I worked out before I was a mum, and this was the only place that enabled me to carry on with that part of me. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For me, motherhood hit me so much harder \u2013 your life completely changes, so being able to carry on with a hobby kept a part of myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wirral Council said: &#8220;Like many other local authorities, we continue to face severe financial challenges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Setting a legal and balanced budget for 2025-26 required financial support from the government and for councillors to agree a package of savings worth more than \u00a325m.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Hughes said using the creche was a &#8220;generational&#8221; thing in her family. She said: &#8220;My mum came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-294802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}