{"id":339261,"date":"2025-08-12T19:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339261\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:45:21","slug":"birmingham-homeless-charitys-billboard-plea-for-summer-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339261\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham homeless charity&#8217;s billboard plea for summer support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A homelessness charity that sees a drop in donations during the summer has said the people it helps still need support at this time of year.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sifa Fireside said donations during the summer were vital for running its homeless intervention service, which provides food, clothing, showers, health clinics and housing advice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity&#8217;s campaign, called Homelessness Doesn&#8217;t Take a Holiday, is on billboards across Birmingham, after the company Ocean Outdoor donated media space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robb Sheppard, from Sifa Fireside, said he hoped the campaign would &#8220;stop people in their tracks, encourage them to take a second look, and make a donation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homelessness charity that sees a drop in donations during the summer has said the people it helps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115017516615753966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339261","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=339261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}