{"id":35500,"date":"2013-11-21T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=316aa974ad55cda58b377f0a7e936a78"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:35:27","slug":"press-release-humshaugh-village-shop-wins-prime-ministers-big-society-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=35500","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Humshaugh village shop wins Prime Minister\u2019s Big Society Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A group of local volunteers formed <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humshaughshop.co.uk\/\">Humshaugh Community Ventures<\/a> and stepped in when the shop faced closure. It now raises enough profit to support other local projects.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bigsocietyawards.org\">Big Society Award<\/a> comes as the volunteers celebrate 4 years since they took over the shop. Since 2009 they have refitted the shop and organised a volunteer workforce of 50 people to run the business. It is open 7 days a week, serving the needs of the community and raising significant profits that are re-invested back in to the community through over \u00a318,000 worth of grants to local projects.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister David Cameron said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Humshaugh village captured the spirit of the big society when they were faced with the closure of their only village shop.<\/p>\n<p>Local people got together to keep this hub of community life open and 4 years on its still going strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m delighted to be recognising the hard work and dedication of Humshaugh Community Ventures with this Big Society Award.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chairman of Humshaugh Community Ventures Dick Moules said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am absolutely thrilled that the community of Humshaugh has been recognised with a Big Society Award.  When we took over the village shop we never dreamt that it would lead to this.  It is thanks to the many volunteers giving a few hours a week that we are able to support a wide variety of village groups and individuals. This award recognises their hard work and dedication and makes it even more worthwhile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Find out more about the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bigsocietyawards.org\/\">Big Society Awards.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Northumberland community group which saved their village shop has won a Big Society Award, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}