{"id":29321,"date":"2024-04-19T21:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/robert-plant-named-patron-of-uk-homeless-charity\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T21:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:03:24","slug":"robert-plant-named-patron-of-uk-homeless-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/robert-plant-named-patron-of-uk-homeless-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Plant named patron of UK homeless charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-19\/Getty_RobertPlant_041924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tim Mosenfelder\/WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Robert Plant<\/strong> has been named patron of Good Shepherd, an English\u00a0charity that helps the homeless community.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Plant has been a longtime supporter of the organization and last December invited reps from the group to appear at his local concert at The Halls to help raise awareness of their work. He later visited the charity to learn more about the services it provides.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt was good to visit the Good Shepherd and learn more about their work,\u201d Plant shares. \u201cProviding food and a range of other support is a key part of it but something that I think is so important is the focus on rebuilding confidence, self-esteem and spirit.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Good Shepherd is a small local charity, but we have a big impact in our community,\u201d CEO <strong>Tom Hayden<\/strong> says. \u201cHaving Robert support our work in Wolverhampton and the Black Country is incredible for our organization, and we\u2019re extremely grateful he has decided to come on board as a patron.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Plant is helping to support the organization\u2019s new trainee program, which will offer two paid trainee positions to people who have experienced homelessness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe cannot thank Robert enough for becoming a patron and underpinning these trainee roles, and we look forward to keeping him updated on how our program develops,\u201d Hayden adds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Mosenfelder\/WireImage Robert Plant has been named patron of Good Shepherd, an English\u00a0charity that helps the homeless community.\u00a0 Plant has been a longtime supporter of the organization and last December invited reps from the group to appear at his local concert at The Halls to help raise awareness of their<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/robert-plant-named-patron-of-uk-homeless-charity\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}