{"id":2166,"date":"2011-05-20T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2011-05-20T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:50:31","slug":"ashville-pupils-get-tills-ringing-in-aid-of-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/20\/ashville-pupils-get-tills-ringing-in-aid-of-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashville Pupils Get Tills Ringing In Aid Of Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong><strong id=\"sm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2169\" title=\"ashville\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ashville1-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/>Classmates and teachers, will be setting up a shop to raise funds for the Malawi Open Arms Project.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><ins><ins id=\"aswift_0_anchor\"><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p><em>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"bd\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prlog.org\/\">PRLog (Press Release)<\/a><\/em> \u2013  <em>May 20, 2011<\/em> \u2013 Pupils from a Harrogate school will be hoping to  hear the ringing of tills this Saturday, (May 28) as they set up a shop  to raise money for Malawi\u2019s Open Arms Charity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From 10.30am-4pm, Ashville College students and teachers will be  occupying the Wesley Chapel\u2019s Lower Hall, where they will be selling  CDs, clothes, books toys and bric-a-brac.<\/p>\n<p>The shop is the latest in a series of fund-raising initiatives being carried out in aid of the African-based charity.<\/p>\n<p>In July, a group of 19 students and three staff members from the  independent school will be spending almost a month at the Open Arms  Infant Home in Blantyre, which is managed by former Ashville teacher,  Neville Bevis.<\/p>\n<p>Other fundraising efforts to date have included selling I Love Malawi T-Shirts, bag-packing at ASDA and a car-wash.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds of last September\u2019s annual sponsored walk are also  going to the charity, which Mr Bevis has been directly involved with for  more than 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>Ashville College pupil Anna Hartley, who, with fellow pupil Lucy  Gould, has organised the shop, said: \u201cAhead of our month in Malawi, we  are pulling out the stops to raise a significant amount of money for the  Open Arms Charity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hoping we can pull in the customers and sell plenty of  items, all of which have been donated. There will be about 20 of us  involved in the day. Some will be manning the tills, others making sure  the stock is looking at its best, while the rest help drum up custom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to raising money for the charity, it\u2019s a great  team-building event and we are looking forward to opening for business  at 10.30am on the dot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 12 years, 200 pupils have visited the project, based  on the shores of Lake Malawi. During that time, Ashville College pupils,  teachers and parents have raised in the region of \u00a3160,000 for the  charity<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classmates and teachers, will be setting up a shop to raise funds for the Malawi Open Arms Project. FOR IMMEDIATE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[587,588,205],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-profit-organizations","tag-ashville-college","tag-fundraising","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}