{"id":679951,"date":"2026-01-07T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679951\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:57:10","slug":"frome-counselling-charity-for-cancer-patients-at-risk-of-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679951\/","title":{"rendered":"Frome counselling charity for cancer patients at risk of closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A charity which offers counselling for people with cancer and their loved ones is facing closure unless it can raise \u00a355,000 before April.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosses at Frome-based We Hear You (WHY) say rising costs and a fall in income means the charity is in need of more donations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WHY has been running for 31 years and supports about 500 people a year, giving them a space to talk about their illness. The charity says it acts as a &#8220;lifeline&#8221; for those who need it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chief operating officer Lucy Kitchener said she remained &#8220;optimistic&#8221; it could weather the storm and added the team was doing everything it can to &#8220;make sure the doors stay open&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A charity which offers counselling for people with cancer and their loved ones is facing closure unless it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-679951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679951","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=679951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}