{"id":51628,"date":"2014-12-15T13:04:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=01f7d01485ccc45e0a493be674bd4028"},"modified":"2014-12-15T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:04:54","slug":"news-story-dvla-raises-funds-for-wales-air-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51628","title":{"rendered":"News story: DVLA raises funds for Wales Air Ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>As 2014 comes to a close, we\u2019re proud to announce that through the support and generosity of DVLA staff and our partners, we\u2019ve raised \u00a321,389 for our Charity of Choice 2014 &#8211; The Wales Air Ambulance (WAA). <\/p>\n<p>The money was raised through a variety of activities and events during the year.<\/p>\n<p>DVLA\u2019s Chief Executive Oliver Morley, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s through the exceptional efforts of everyone here at DVLA that we\u2019ve exceeded our original target of \u00a313,000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On hearing the news, Mark Stevens, WAA fundraising manager, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">All of us here at Wales Air Ambulance were delighted to be chosen as DVLA\u2019s Charity of Choice for 2014. This has really made a difference and we will use the funds to buy a scanning machine for our helicopter based in Swansea. It has been a fun and memorable time with DVLA over the year and from everyone at WAA, we would like to thank all the staff at DVLA who supported us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oliver added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s important that we continue to focus on charities that really mean something to staff and we will be announcing our Charity of Choice for 2015 shortly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVLA staff and partners raise over \u00a321,000 for their 2014 Charity of Choice.<\/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\/51628"}],"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=51628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}