{"id":15054,"date":"2019-08-15T16:34:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2024-07-15T21:21:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:21:32","slug":"over-2900-raffle-tickets-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/2019\/08\/15\/over-2900-raffle-tickets-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 2,900 Raffle Tickets Sold!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could really feel the community spirit with so many generous sponsors and donations. Saturday 6 July at Ryde Civic Hall, Ryde District Mums sold over 2,900 raffle tickets and raised over $7,000 for the Hew Family. The day was perfect and over 200 kids showed up for this special fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to help raise funds so that Lauren could get out of hospital and spend her time at home with her family and friends, surrounded by love.<\/p>\n<p>We love her strength and determination throughout such a terrible and emotional 5 years of battling cancer. By seeing such courage, it gives us the hope we can fight anything that comes our way.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15058 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/boptillyoudrop.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/singing-dancing-games-kids-party.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><br \/>\nA big thank you to Ryde District Mums<\/h2>\n<p>Thank you again to Jessica and Jacqui at Ryde District Mums who organised this event and for including us with helping a family in need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15065 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/boptillyoudrop.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/dancing-event-kids-fundraiser.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"520\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We hope we made a difference and were so privileged to be apart of the Fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the ridiculous financial strain that we have been under during the past 4 years, and will continue to be under, I live each day as if it\u2019s my last. I savour every moment with my babies, good and bad. I sit in the warm sun, I breathe in all the scents in the air around me, I squish my toes in the grass, I gaze at the stars and meditate during thunderstorms. I have been given the worst gift in the world, cancer. BUT it has taught me to focus on the NOW, not the LATER.\u201d &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/rydedistrictmums.com.au\/living-terminal-illness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here to read her full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could really feel the community spirit with so many generous sponsors and donations. Saturday 6 July at Ryde Civic Hall, Ryde District Mums sold over 2,900 raffle tickets and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,244,52,53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-blog-sydney","category-fundraising-event","category-in-the-press","category-news","category-our-disco-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.boptillyoudrop.com.au\/central-coast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}