{"id":50972,"date":"2024-04-19T16:41:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=50972"},"modified":"2024-04-19T16:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:41:15","slug":"hitch-hiking-student-group-raise-over-34000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/hitch-hiking-student-group-raise-over-34000\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitch-hiking Student group Raise over \u00a334,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of students who hitched their way from the Steel City to Portugal&#8217;s second largest city have raised a staggering \u00a334,000 for charity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The University of Sheffield&#8217;s hitch-hiking society, Bummit, have raised the cash on their &#8216;big bummit&#8217; to Porto, Portugal over the Easter break. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bummit, founded in 2003, is the world&#8217;s largest student organised hitch-hiking group, and in it&#8217;s history has raised over \u00a31.1million for local South Yorkshire charities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year they raised money for Weston Park Cancer Charity, Snowdrop, Bens Centre and Sayit, with 150 students taking part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bummit run two main hitch-hiking events per year, in November they went to Glasgow, raising over \u00a325,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students who hitched their way from the Steel City to Portugal&#8217;s second largest city have raised a staggering \u00a334,000 for charity. The University of Sheffield&#8217;s hitch-hiking society, Bummit, have raised the cash on their &#8216;big bummit&#8217; to Porto, Portugal over the Easter break. Bummit, founded in 2003, is the world&#8217;s largest student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":50997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[191,5,132],"tags":[461,73,12,462],"class_list":["post-50972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-bummit","tag-charity","tag-sheffield","tag-universityofsheffield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51030,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50972\/revisions\/51030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}