{"id":151,"date":"2014-09-04T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/?p=151"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:24:54","slug":"our-md-peddles-for-the-pennies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/09\/04\/our-md-peddles-for-the-pennies\/","title":{"rendered":"Our MD Peddles for the Pennies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acorn&#8217;s Managing Director Mark Roberts is taking part in a 100 mile bike ride on the 21st September to raise money for Leeds Children&#8217;s Hospital Appeal.<br \/>\nThis great charity aims to improve the condition of hospitals in the Leeds area, making the wards, theatres, parent waiting rooms &amp; day case areas child &amp; family friendly, along with state of the art equipment that unfortunately budgets don&#8217;t always cover!<\/p>\n<p>The ride starts from Roundhay Park with the route going along country roads to York and on to the Howardian Hills before heading back to the finish (see following map).<\/p>\n<p>Here Mark comments on his challenge&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;At the start of this year I would not have thought I would have been able to tackle such an event, but through a combination of hard work and time on the bike I feel I am ready for the challenge!<br \/>\nIf people feel they would like to contribute to this worthwhile cause then they can do so by either seeing me in person or via my Just Giving site&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/Mark4-Roberts\/\">https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/Mark4-Roberts\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acorn&#8217;s Managing Director Mark Roberts is taking part in a 100 mile bike ride on the 21st September to raise money for Leeds Children&#8217;s Hospital Appeal. This great charity aims to improve the condition of hospitals in the Leeds area, making the wards, theatres, parent waiting rooms &amp; day case areas child &amp; family friendly, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornwebnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}