{"id":118156,"date":"2024-08-01T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/01\/taylor-swift-fans-organize-fundraiser-for-victims-of-uk-stabbing\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T00:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T00:01:19","slug":"taylor-swift-fans-organize-fundraiser-for-victims-of-uk-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/01\/taylor-swift-fans-organize-fundraiser-for-victims-of-uk-stabbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift fans organize fundraiser for victims of UK stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-31\/Getty_TaylorSwiftStabbing_073024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Flowers at a makeshift memorial for the victims; James Speakman\/PA Images via Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the tragic stabbing deaths of three children in Southport, England, during a <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>-themed event, Swifties in Europe and the U.K. are coming together to help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cristina Jones<\/strong> and<strong> Holly Goldring<\/strong>, who run the Taylor Swift U.K. and European Union Facebook groups, have posted an online fundraiser at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/page\/swifties-for-southport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JustGiving.com<\/a>. According to the website, the funds are being raised in conjunction with Alder Hey Children&#8217;s Hospital and all the money will go to the families impacted by the murders via the hospital&#8217;s charity. At press time,\u00a0more than $400,000 had been raised.<\/p>\n<p>Jones told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgl7kv9jrppo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC Newsbeat<\/a> that the group was &#8220;very, very happy&#8221; with how much had been raised and that she would be speaking to the hospital about the funds &#8220;very, very shortly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, a 17-year-old man is in custody after the stabbing deaths on Monday, which took place at the Taylor Swift Yoga &amp; Dance Workshop for kids ages 6 to 11. Three girls, ages 6, 7 and 9, were killed; five other children and\u00a0two adults are in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor wrote on her Instagram Story Tuesday that she was &#8220;completely in shock,&#8221; adding, &#8220;These were just little kids at a dance class. I am at a complete loss for how to ever convey my sympathies to these families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers at a makeshift memorial for the victims; James Speakman\/PA Images via Getty Following the tragic stabbing deaths of three children in Southport, England, during a Taylor Swift-themed event, Swifties in Europe and the U.K. are coming together to help. Cristina Jones and Holly Goldring, who run the Taylor Swift<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/01\/taylor-swift-fans-organize-fundraiser-for-victims-of-uk-stabbing\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}