{"id":8888,"date":"2018-12-04T18:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2018-12-04T18:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:55:51","slug":"dames-in-spain-hold-their-traditional-christmas-fair-and-carol-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/dames-in-spain-hold-their-traditional-christmas-fair-and-carol-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Dames in Spain hold their Traditional  Christmas Fair and Carol Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Moj\u00e1car got its Christmas calendar officially underway with the annual Dames in Spain Christmas Fair and Carol Concert held at the town\u2019s Centro de Usos Multiples.  It is a very traditional event that brings the local international community together, with a morning filled with the most popular carols and seasonal stories that can be heard all over the United Kingdom at this time of year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\tIt also provides the perfect setting to hold a charity fair, including a raffle where the prizes are gifts given generously by local establishments, with greater numbers collaborating with their support each year.<br \/>\nMoj\u00e1car\u2019s Town Band, opened up the event with a selection of old and new typical Spanish carols. Carol Threlfall, speaking on behalf of The Dames in Spain, thanked everyone for coming along to support what is, one of their biggest fund raising events of the year to help various charities.<br \/>\nThis year, donations were given to MACS, the Association that helps cancer patients and families, the carers\u2019 support group, Stepping Stones and Equinac, another non-profit organisation that attends to marine creatures, mainly turtles, whales and dolphins.<br \/>\nThe Dames President also thanked Moj\u00e1car\u2019s Mayor, Rosmar\u00ed Cano and Mar\u00eda Luisa P\u00e9rez, the Councillor assigned to the Mayor&#8217;s Office, who also helped out with translations when the donations were presented.<br \/>\nMoj\u00e1car Council works together with Moj\u00e1car\u2019s Dames in Spain on many of the charitable activities they are involved in, which highlights the efforts made by the members from all institutions to collaborate and work together for the welfare of the area.<br \/>\n\tThere are  more than sixty, mostly British, women in Moj\u00e1car\u2019s Dames in Spain Association, who for three decades have devoted a great deal of their time and efforts to organizing activities throughout the year with the aim of donating the proceeds to deserving causes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moj\u00e1car got its Christmas calendar officially underway with the annual Dames in Spain Christmas Fair and Carol Concert held at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}