{"id":5989,"date":"2026-04-14T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:48:16","slug":"charity-bet-campaign-in-coral-maldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=5989","title":{"rendered":"Charity Bet Campaign in Coral, Maldon"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5989\" class=\"elementor elementor-5989\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-682e244 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"682e244\" 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-409514e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"409514e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"300\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sir John<\/span><\/span> recently enjoyed visiting a Coral branch in Maldon High Street to support the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Betting and Gaming Council<\/span><\/span>\u2019s Charity Bet Campaign. Here, he met with the team and discussed this new initiative which will support Family Carers in Maldon and the wider Essex area.<\/p><p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"300\">By placing a \u00a350 bet on Haiti Couleurs for Saturday\u2019s Grand at 16-1, the BGC will donate a minimum of \u00a3250 to Action for Family Carers in Maldon, in addition to any winnings from the bets.<\/p><section class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto [content-visibility:auto] supports-[content-visibility:auto]:[contain-intrinsic-size:auto_100lvh] R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" data-turn-id=\"request-WEB:f47a2c20-b9f6-4fb3-8761-503b942392fe-3\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-8\" data-scroll-anchor=\"false\" data-turn=\"assistant\"><div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"><div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"><div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"><div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"0\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"fe6c79c7-a60b-459c-9e4f-db4c82191235\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-3\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\"><div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"><div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\"><p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"182\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Sir John welcomed the opportunity to see another side of Maldon High Street and particularly valued the discussion on how the Charity Bet Campaign can benefit an Essex-based charity, Action for Family Carers. To find out more about the work they do, please visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/affc.org.uk\/\">website.<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><p data-start=\"593\" data-end=\"858\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Thanks for this visit go in particular to Nicki, the area manager, and staff members Colin and Callie.<\/p>\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>Sir John Whittingdale visits Coral to support the Betting and Gaming Council Charity Bet Campaign, to help raise funds for local carers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5990,"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":[55,54,56,40],"class_list":["post-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-action-for-family-carers","tag-betting-and-gaming-council","tag-maldon-high-street","tag-sir-john-whittingdale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","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=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}