{"id":359,"date":"2015-10-12T21:12:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=359"},"modified":"2015-10-12T21:16:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T20:16:08","slug":"1700-raised-for-scholarship-fund-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"\u00a31700 raised for Scholarship Fund this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two successful fundraising events this weekend in Sheffield and Saddleworth have raised \u00a31700 towards <a title=\"More about the Scholarship Fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?page_id=157\" target=\"_blank\">scholarships for Palestinian women in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Sheffield, the Top Shelalas sang to a packed crowd at the Broomspring Centre, raising \u00a3800.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444677569573_2554\" style=\"color: #141823;\">Saddleworth PWSF had an amazing fundraising event on Sunday 11 October. Over 70 people came to the event and heard a moving and powerful presentation by Dr Mona El-Farra from Gaza. Her description of life under occupation and of the resilience shown by Palestinians spoke to us all. We were also delighted to welcome our local MP, Debbie Abrahams, who also addressed the meeting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/download-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Mona El Farra and local MP Debbie Abrahams with Saddleworth PWSF supporters\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/download-2.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/download-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Mona El Farra and local MP Debbie Abrahams with Saddleworth PWSF supporters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444677569573_2556\" style=\"color: #141823;\">We raised in the region of \u00a3950 (money is still coming in) and, as importantly, raised\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444677569573_2561\" class=\"yiv2745536330\">awareness of life under occupation and the challenges faced by women wishing to gain access to higher education<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444677569573_2562\" style=\"color: #141823;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1444677569573_2563\" class=\"yiv2745536330\">Our thank to everyone who supported the event&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two successful fundraising events this weekend in Sheffield and Saddleworth have raised \u00a31700 towards scholarships for Palestinian women in Gaza. In Sheffield, the Top Shelalas sang to a packed crowd at the Broomspring Centre, raising \u00a3800. Saddleworth PWSF had an amazing fundraising event on Sunday 11 October. Over 70 people came to the event and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u00a31700 raised for Scholarship Fund this weekend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-womens-scholarship-fund"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}