{"id":72187,"date":"2024-02-02T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/?p=72187"},"modified":"2024-02-02T11:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T11:06:57","slug":"lifeguard-christian-prepares-to-take-the-plunge-in-21-mile-charity-swim-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/lifeguard-christian-prepares-to-take-the-plunge-in-21-mile-charity-swim-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifeguard Christian prepares to take the plunge in 21-mile charity swim challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bournemouth lifeguard Christian Mitchell will be swimming 21 miles &#8211; the equivalent of crossing the channel from England to France &#8211; in a charity challenge next week.<\/p>\n<p>Together with students Arief McKenna and Justus Dirks, he&#8217;ll be raising money for Julia&#8217;s House children&#8217;s hospice.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is on Wednesday February 7 in the pool at Stokewood Leisure Centre where Christian works.<\/p>\n<p>It will be in memory of seven-year-old Sophie Kline who died from a brain tumour nine years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Christian said: &#8220;We\u2019re really excited about this challenge and want to offer a huge thanks to BH Live for making this fundraiser possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BH Live Active, Stokewood is managed by registered charity BH Live, in partnership with BCP Council.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Saner, Stokewood\u2019s Centre Manager,\u00a0said:<em> &#8220;<\/em>Christian is a fantastic colleague and a friendly face to all of our customers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wish him and his friends all the best with this fundraiser and hope they raise lots of money for an incredible cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura Maidment, Public Fundraising Manager for Julia\u2019s House, added: &#8220;We are incredibly grateful to Christian, Arief and Justus for taking on this mighty challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The funds they raise will help to provide vital care and support to local seriously ill children and their families, so thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wishing them all the best of luck!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Further information on the fundraiser and donations can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/justgiving.com\/page\/adam-gulliver\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bournemouth lifeguard Christian Mitchell will be swimming 21 miles &#8211; the equivalent of crossing the channel from England to France &#8211; in a charity challenge..<\/p>\n<p>Together with students Arief McKenna and Justus Dirks, he&#8217;ll be raising money for Julia&#8217;s House children&#8217;s hospice.<\/p>\n<p>Next week&#8217;s challenge is in the pool at Stokewood Leisure Centre where Christian works.<\/p>\n<p>He said he&#8217;s looking forward to taking the plunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":72189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-72187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bhlive_uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72190,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72187\/revisions\/72190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}