{"id":154260,"date":"2023-02-11T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfm.com\/?p=154260"},"modified":"2023-02-09T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T10:54:47","slug":"studio-guests-throw-spotlight-towns-food-bank-helping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/?p=154260","title":{"rendered":"Studio guests throw spotlight on how town&#8217;s food bank is helping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Paul Golder writes for the Brentwood Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-08-Brentwood-Gazette-Billericay-Foodbank-scaled.jpg\" data-id=\"154261\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-154261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-08-Brentwood-Gazette-Billericay-Foodbank-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2013\" height=\"2560\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a visit last week from Jim Rose and Steve Jordan from Billericay Foodbank to tell us all about their fundraising ceilidh.<\/p>\n<p>When I see the word ceilidh I always think of the very spit-and-sawdust pub I went to in Stirling a long time ago where I was offered a free drink by the barman if I could pronounce the word correctly.\u00a0 Luckily I&#8217;d been tipped off by one of the locals who had helpfully put Kayleigh by Marillion on the jukebox just before I was asked.\u00a0 I never thought I&#8217;d see a ceilidh as far south as Billericay though.<\/p>\n<p>Jim and Steve came in to see Bob Simpson on his regular One 2 Three lunchtime show.\u00a0 Bob has been presenting shows on Phoenix FM since 2011 and he is also one of the fantastic volunteers at the foodbank.<\/p>\n<p>Steve is also involved with The Mayflower\u00a0Morris\u00a0Men of Billericay and the two organisations have got together to arrange the event at the Canon Roach Pastoral Centre in Billericay which will provide some much-needed funds.<\/p>\n<p>He also brought along his melodeon and gave us a tune in the studio!<\/p>\n<p>You can hear the interview again at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixfm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.phoenixfm.com<\/a>\u00a0and Billericay Foodbank has an official web page at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billericaychurches.org\/sjd\/services-and-activities\/food-bank.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.billericaychurches.org\/sjd\/services-and-activities\/food-bank.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Golder writes for the Brentwood Gazette We had a visit last week from Jim Rose and Steve Jordan from <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/?p=154260\"><b>read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2005],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154262,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154260\/revisions\/154262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.phoenixfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}