{"id":52515,"date":"2025-12-08T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/?p=52515"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:17:01","slug":"fusion-lifestyle-in-bid-to-spread-christmas-cheer-for-nourish-food-bank-dyslexia-research-trust-paddock-wood-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/2025\/12\/08\/fusion-lifestyle-in-bid-to-spread-christmas-cheer-for-nourish-food-bank-dyslexia-research-trust-paddock-wood-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Fusion Lifestyle in Bid to Spread Christmas Cheer for Nourish Food Bank, Dyslexia Research Trust &#038; Paddock Wood Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"52515\" class=\"elementor elementor-52515\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20903d14 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"20903d14\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e2e8f1a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e2e8f1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">With the cost of living crisis making Christmas challenging for families all over the UK, Fusion Lifestyle, the charity that manages Tunbridge Wells Sports Centre, The Weald Sports Centre and Putlands Sports &amp; Leisure Centre has teamed up with Nourish Food Bank, Dyslexia Research Trust and Paddock Wood Church and is calling on members and local residents to help spread some festive cheer by dropping off gifts at their local leisure centre.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">Gifts can be dropped off at the centre until 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0December before they are passed on to the charities for distribution to their benefactors, helping bring smiles to faces during the holidays.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">The Fusion Lifestyle team know children all over the area will be waking up without any toys or gifts to unwrap this year and want to try and do something about this.\u00a0\u00a0Fusion are delighted to try and make a difference to children by delivering them a Christmas surprise and would urge people to consider adding one more gift to their shopping lists and dropping it off at the leisure centre.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;\">Anthony Cawley, CEO of Fusion Lifestyle, commented: \u201cChristmas is a wonderful time of year, and we want to help bring the community together and make sure everyone has something to unwrap this year.\u00a0\u00a0Our centres are looking forward to collecting as many gifts as possible for great local causes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the cost of living crisis making Christmas challenging for families all over the UK, Fusion Lifestyle, the charity that manages Tunbridge Wells Sports Centre, The Weald Sports Centre and Putlands Sports &amp; Leisure Centre has teamed up with Nourish Food Bank, Dyslexia Research Trust and Paddock Wood Church and is calling on members and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":52516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,358,357],"tags":[],"directory-category":[],"event_categories":[],"class_list":["post-52515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-community","category-fundraising"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 15:36:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52520,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52515\/revisions\/52520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52515"},{"taxonomy":"directory-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory-category?post=52515"},{"taxonomy":"event_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-kent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_categories?post=52515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}