{"id":10556,"date":"2015-11-25T06:06:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T06:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2020-01-21T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T16:43:08","slug":"christmas-events-and-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/11\/christmas-events-and-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Events and Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Christmas looming ever nearer on the horizon, here are some of the things that are going on locally in the lead up to the festive season:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not Home Alone at Christmas are looking for a choir, poster distributors and also minibus drivers. You can find out more about them and their opportunities on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Not-Home-Alone-at-Christmas-592434510882751\/?fref=ts\">facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li>West Marsh Community Centre are holding their Christmas Spectacular on Friday 4th December, from 4.30-7pm, and Saturday 5th December, from 1-4pm.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/11\/grimsby-philharmonic-society-at-grimsby-minster\/\">Grimsby Philharmonic Society<\/a> are performing Handel&#8217;s Messiah on 12th December at Grimsby Minster<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CAROLS-BY-CANDLELIGHT-DECEMBER-2015.doc\">St Mary&#8217;s Catholic Church<\/a> are holding their Carols by Candlelight service on 16th December<\/li>\n<li>Grimsby Minster have the Les Springall Band making an appearance on 5th December<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/11\/grant-thorold-community-library\/\">Care4All<\/a> are part of a new group that have taken on Grant Thorold Library. The official opening is on 8th December, but if you would like to attend please RSVP by 4th December.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/11\/linkage-has-christmas-wrapped-at-grimsby\/\">Linkage<\/a> are offering a gift wrapping service in Freshney Place Shopping Centre.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/11\/christmas-veg-box\/\">Green Futures<\/a> are taking orders for their Christmas Vegetable Box. The box costs \u00a327 and needs to be delivered\/ collected on 21st or 22nd December. Please note that the deadline for orders is 11th December.<\/li>\n<li>10th-13th December sees the Winter Wonderland arrive at Meridian Park, Cleethorpes. You can find out more about what is happening and opening times on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleethorpeswinterwonderland.com\/\">Winter Wonderland<\/a> website. The organisers are looking for volunteers to help support the event, if you would like to volunteer please email <a href=\"mailto:volunteer@vanel.org.uk\">volunteer@vanel.org.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CARE are running their Toys for Joy scheme again this year. If you work for an organisation supporting families you can contact CARE to <a href=\"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Toys-For-Joy-Scheme-Poster-to-workers-2015.pdf\">refer the parent to the scheme<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like us to share your event then please email details to <a href=\"mailto:editor@vanel.org.uk\">editor@vanel.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-10556\" data-postid=\"10556\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-10556 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A round up of some of the activities and events taking place in the lead up to Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[123,192,323,177,190,174,181],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-2Kg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10566,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions\/10566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}