{"id":3391,"date":"2014-06-05T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T10:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T10:06:48","slug":"volunteers-week-story-so-much-more-than-meals-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2014\/06\/volunteers-week-story-so-much-more-than-meals-on-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers Week story &#8211; so much more than Meals on Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Like all of the VANEL staff team, Paula Grant &#8211; Chief Officer at VANEL, has been out volunteering this week as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/volunteersweek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">national Volunteers&#8217; Week<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paula was helping out with Fresh Start Meals and Care to prepare and deliver meals on wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Paula says, &#8220;UNTIL you get out there on the front line and see what it&#8217;s all about, you have no idea how much we can help people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Grimsby Telegraph<\/a> covered her volunteering experience and you can<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk\/Helping-people-duty-Voluntary-Action-North-East\/story-21191944-detail\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> read the entire article about this on the Telegraph website just here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All VANEL staff involved in the week have expressed similar feelings &#8211; that actually doing being out volunteering really brings it home what is needed, what the experience is like and how valuable each and every volunteer is.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like more information about volunteering, please learn about our <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/volunteering\/\">Volunteer Centre<\/a> based in Grimsby and get in touch.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3391\" data-postid=\"3391\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3391 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grimsby Telegraph covered Paula Grant&#8217;s experiences helping out with Meals on Wheels during Volunteers&#8217; Week.<\/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":[11,152],"tags":[153],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-SH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391"}],"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=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}