{"id":320401,"date":"2025-08-05T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320401\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:49:09","slug":"cricket-ground-to-boost-security-after-unauthorised-encampment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320401\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket ground to boost security after unauthorised encampment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re meeting with the council this week and researching pop-up barriers,&#8221; Mr Baker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A GoFundMe page launched on Tuesday raised over \u00a34,000 by Thursday, and a post on a local Facebook group drew around 60 volunteers for a thorough clean-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thanks to the fundraising, we&#8217;ll be able to contribute to the costs,&#8221; said Mr Baker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group left the ground on 2 August after being served with a Notice to Quit by Plymouth City Council, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volunteers had since been working to repair tyre divots and restore the playing surface, with hopes of resuming matches this weekend, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four youth cricket matches and two training sessions were cancelled, along with a planned social event and regular bingo night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The biggest loss was to the kids and the community who couldn&#8217;t come to Friday night nets or watch games,&#8221; said Mr Baker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nearby, Wembury Cricket Club hosted a friendly match and donated \u00a3400 from the event, while messages of encouragement came from clubs and businesses nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re meeting with the council this week and researching pop-up barriers,&#8221; Mr Baker said. A GoFundMe page launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-320401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114977424276504171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}