{"id":59711,"date":"2026-08-30T04:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fundraiser-launched-for-the-kiwi-fruit-is-cute-crafting-shop\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:43:17","slug":"fundraiser-launched-for-the-kiwi-fruit-is-cute-crafting-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fundraiser-launched-for-the-kiwi-fruit-is-cute-crafting-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser launched for The Kiwi Fruit is Cute crafting shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shop is known for its Make &amp; Mingle sessions, which see people travel from far and wide with their own projects to knit, sew or craft in a group rather than complete the tasks at home alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charities, such as Oscar&#8217;s Community Corner, also use space in the shop for their own crafting projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Westmacott continued: &#8220;We are working other jobs and don&#8217;t take a wage from the business at all, we put everything back in. We are personally pushing our own finances into it to try and keep things going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As much as the business  is growing&#8230; it is a real struggle at the moment. We are in a difficult period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This [the fundraiser] is so we keep open and keep things inclusive and affordable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz0zr3577glo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shop is known for its Make &amp; Mingle sessions, which see people travel from far and wide with their own projects to knit, sew or craft in a group rather than complete the tasks at home alone. Charities, such as Oscar&#8217;s Community Corner, also use space in the shop for their own crafting projects. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[16516,10734,2656,11931,16515,3986,638],"class_list":["post-59711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-crafting","tag-cute","tag-fruit","tag-fundraiser","tag-kiwi","tag-launched","tag-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59713,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59711\/revisions\/59713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}