{"id":4106,"date":"2020-08-02T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2020-08-08T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T20:39:21","slug":"bct-aspire-supporting-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/?p=4106","title":{"rendered":"BCT Aspire supporting the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BCT Aspire have been working towards the Enrichment Programme, an initiative from Stockton Borough Council and in partnership with Billingham Town Council, to provide initially 50 healthy packed lunches to designated school children in the area during the summer school holidays. Due to the success of the project, we are now delivering over 100 packed lunches.  <\/p>\n<p>The lunch bags are put together in the John Whitehead Park Community hub by a team including Billingham Town Council catering staff and BCT volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Packed-Lunches.jpg\" alt=\"Packed Lunches\" width=\"778\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Packed-Lunches.jpg 778w, https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Packed-Lunches-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Packed-Lunches-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BCT Aspire, along with help from the Billingham community have been delivering the packed lunches since mid July, four days per week (Tuesday-Friday). <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lunches-Activity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"362\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lunches-Activity.jpg 760w, https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lunches-Activity-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Along with this we have extended to scheme to include &#8216;Boredom Buster&#8217; packs, to engage with both children and parents. The themed packs include a healthy drink and some snacks along with activities and challenges to keep them entertained. We also set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BCTBoredomBusters\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page<\/a> so families can share their projects&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4111\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BCT-BoredomBusters.jpg\" alt=\"Example of contents of a boredom buster pack\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BCT-BoredomBusters.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BCT-BoredomBusters-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BCT-BoredomBusters-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BCT-BoredomBusters-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example Boredom Buster pack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We wish to thank Billingham Rugby Club, Johnson Mathey, FujiFilm and Greggs Bakery for their support on this initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCT Aspire have been working towards the Enrichment Programme, an initiative from Stockton Borough Council and in partnership with Billingham Town Council, to provide initially 50 healthy packed lunches to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bct-aspire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bctaspire.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}