{"id":16971,"date":"2013-10-18T14:07:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=16971"},"modified":"2013-10-18T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T14:07:19","slug":"wool-power-welsh-show-great-support-for-knitting-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2013\/10\/18\/wool-power-welsh-show-great-support-for-knitting-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"WOOL POWER: Welsh show great support for knitting campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crafty folk in Wales have cast on their knitting needles to help fund support for vulnerable older people during the winter months.<\/p>\n<p>Participants of the Big Knit Campaign 2013 have knitted thousands of miniature woolly hats to adorn innocent smoothie bottles and raise money for Age Cymru.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hat-clad bottles will go on sale in November and for every drink sold 25p will go to the charity.<\/p>\n<p>Iwan Rhys Roberts, a spokesman for Age Cymru, said: \u00a0\u201cMoney raised by the Big Knit helps Age Cymru provide services for older people right across Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had 42,051 hats sent in by the public \u2013 this is a fantastic achievement and we\u2019re very grateful to the people of Wales for their support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on taking part please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/thebigknit.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/thebigknit.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older people in Wales feel the woolly warmth of their local communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2461,2973,2974,2975,2976],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-life","tag-campaign","tag-kniting","tag-older-people","tag-smoothies","tag-woolly"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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