{"id":216,"date":"2025-05-21T18:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalleyinbloom.co.uk\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:45:34","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whalleyinbloom.co.uk\/?page_id=216","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-custom-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e08084cccb5be9758cf9e0ee34572ee6 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Whalley in Bloom was established in 2011, as a not-for-profit voluntary community association as part of the RHS Affiliated Society scheme<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6449d9e8739b658f1394e467bdf9bc8e wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We have 35 members from all walks of life and meet weekly on a Friday morning for planting, pruning, weeding, propagating, picking up litter, removing plant waste, maintaining equipment and 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