{"id":381465,"date":"2025-08-29T02:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381465\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:09:14","slug":"frog-on-the-water-homeward-bound-raising-money-for-the-pituitary-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381465\/","title":{"rendered":"FROG ON THE WATER: HOMEWARD BOUND &#8211; Raising money for The Pituitary Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68b0691f6a6eb.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            FROG ON THE WATER: HOMEWARD BOUND is a walking\/performing JustGiving project, raising money for The Pituitary Foundation.\n        <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px\">In 2018, Simon \u2018The Human\u2019 Woolham had a Pituitary brain tumour removed followed by bouts of PTSD. Coincidentally a year previously Simon\u2019s alter-ego The Frog emerged, and the secretion of frogs is used to help heal PTSD!<\/p>\n<p>Walking\/performing as The Frog from the University of Huddersfield (where Simon\/The Frog works) to Macclesfield (where Simon\/The Frog lives) will take three days and will happen on Friday 26th, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th September.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day route will be along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Peak Forest Canal and Macclesfield Canal.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The rough plan will be:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Day 1. (Friday 26th September) \u2013 University of Huddersfield School of Arts and Humanities to Standedge Tunnel and Visitor Centre: Leave University of Huddersfield at 11am (arrival for Standedge Tunnel boat trip at 2pm) &#8211; Approx 3hrs of walking<\/p>\n<p>Day 2. (Saturday 27th September) \u2013 Marsden\/Diggle to Stalybridge &#8211; Approx 3hrs of walking, then Stalybridge to Marple Bridge &#8211; Approx 3hrs of walking<\/p>\n<p>Day 3. (28th September) \u2013 Marple Bridge to Macclesfield &#8211; HOMEWARD BOUND! &#8211; Approx 5hrs of walking<\/p>\n<p>The project is in partnership with the Canal &amp; River Trust and the University of Huddersfield.<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Here&#8217;s the link to the Just Giving page of &#8216;Frog on the Water: HOMEWARD BOUND&#8217;:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FROG ON THE WATER: HOMEWARD BOUND is a walking\/performing JustGiving project, raising money for The Pituitary Foundation. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[45552,381,748,2508,132617,393,4884,132618,111492,17448,269,12,50897,9440,16,15,55552],"class_list":{"0":"post-381465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-advertise","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-cheshire","12":"tag-congleton","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-holmes-chapel","16":"tag-knutsford","17":"tag-macclesfield","18":"tag-music","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-poynton","21":"tag-radio","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-wilmslow"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115109623766120149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381465","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=381465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}