{"id":4389,"date":"2025-03-29T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:11:11","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-visits-coral-bookmakers-in-maldon-for-grand-national-charity-bet-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4389","title":{"rendered":"Grand National Charity Bet Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4389\" class=\"elementor elementor-4389\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-232a6531 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"232a6531\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-204420b2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"204420b2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale visited the Coral Bookmakers in Maldon High Street\u00a0 to take part in the Grand National Charity Bet Campaign organised by the Betting and Gaming Council.\u00a0 The Grand National which takes place on Saturday 5th April is the most popular horse race in the world, watched by around 600 million people with an estimated 13 million adults in the UK placing a bet on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>As part of the campaign, Sir John was given a \u00a350 complimentrary charity bet which he placed on &#8220;I Am Maximus&#8221; at 9 to 1. If his horse wins, the winnings and \u00a3250 will go to Maldon HomeStart which is Sir John&#8217;s chosen charity. If it does not win, the BGC will still make a \u00a3250 donation to the charity.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sir John said: &#8220;It was a pleasure to meet Karen, the Coral Area Manager and Colin who runs betting shop in Maldon. Millions of people will enjoy a flutter next Saturday on the National and I am sure the shop will be busy. I am delighted that the BGC have organised this Charity Bet Campaign which means that Maldon HomeStart will receive \u00a3250 and \u00a32,500 if the horse wins!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Sir John is pictured with Karen Hattersley, Coral Area Manager for South Essex.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"822\" class=\"wp-image-4390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Coral-Grand-National-Bet-28-March-2025-1024x822.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Coral-Grand-National-Bet-28-March-2025-1024x822.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Coral-Grand-National-Bet-28-March-2025-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Coral-Grand-National-Bet-28-March-2025-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Coral-Grand-National-Bet-28-March-2025-1536x1234.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Coral-Grand-National-Bet-28-March-2025.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit to Coral in Maldon to support the Grand National Charity Bet Campaign, backing a local charity and highlighting community fundraising linked to the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5468,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/5468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}