{"id":15522,"date":"2017-10-19T14:11:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2017-10-19T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:11:58","slug":"friendship-at-home-running-a-raffle-to-win-an-original-oil-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2017\/10\/friendship-at-home-running-a-raffle-to-win-an-original-oil-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship at Home running a raffle to win an original oil painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

We at Friendship At Home are very excited and fortunate that local professional artist Les Porter has donated one of his fabulous oil paintings for us to raffle.<\/p>\n

See the poster below to see the painting.<\/em><\/p>\n

The painting, \u201cWinter Colors\u201d can be seen in the photograph with Les.\u00a0 This will be raffled by Friendship at Home between October and Wednesday 20th<\/sup> December 2017, when it will be drawn at our annual members Christmas Dinner for older people in the community.<\/p>\n

Tickets will cost \u00a31 a book (five tickets) and can be bought direct from me, David, by contacting me on this email, or Mob 07970 727469.<\/p>\n

They will also be available from F@H staff, friends and colleagues of Friendship at Home.
\nIf you would like to buy tickets or help in selling them, please do contact me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you would please be so kind as to help promote this raffle by printing the poster and putting it in your staff room and even circulating this email further to your friends, family and work colleagues.<\/p>\n

Also if you would like some books to sell, then please do get tin touch with me.<\/p>\n

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated!\u00a0 We need all the help we can get!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"poster<\/a><\/p>\n

All monies raised will go to support the work that Friendship at Home provides across the Borough supporting older people, for example, clubs, activities, outings, volunteers and befrienders.<\/p>\n

As you may know, Les is a retired fireman who has painted most of his life for enjoyment.\u00a0 However due to an operation over fifteen years ago, he had to retire from the Fire Service and started painting professionally and teaching.\u00a0 Les teaches and paints in all mediums, oil, water colors, pencil, and of course subjects include landscapes, people, seascapes, people and animals.\u00a0 Les has had corporate commissions from Conoco, Tor Line and several others as well as undertaking private commissions in the UK and several other countries including Belgium, Norway, Sweden, America and Australia.<\/p>\n

Les also now runs classes at New Waltham Village Hall and Wendover Hall Humberston.\u00a0 If you would like more information on his classes, please contact Les on 01472 882168.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your help.
\nDavid Walker<\/em><\/strong>
\nChair, Friendship at Home<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Friendship At Home are very excited and fortunate that local professional artist Les Porter has donated one of his fabulous oil paintings for them to raffle. Read on to see the painting and to find out how you can enter the raffle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-42m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15524,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions\/15524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}