{"id":1012,"date":"2015-11-03T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T16:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2015-11-11T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:16:21","slug":"michael-welcomes-ncs-ambassador-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"NCS Ambassador Welcomed to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1013\" style=\"width: 5760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Michael-Fallon-Amy-Edwards-NCS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Michael-Fallon-Amy-Edwards-NCS.jpg\" alt=\"Michael meeting Amy in Parliament\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3840\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Michael-Fallon-Amy-Edwards-NCS.jpg 5760w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Michael-Fallon-Amy-Edwards-NCS-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Michael-Fallon-Amy-Edwards-NCS-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Michael-Fallon-Amy-Edwards-NCS-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael meeting Amy in Parliament<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael welcomed Amy Edwards, who has been selected to become one of the National Citizen Service\u2019s (NCS) national ambassadors, to Parliament last week.<\/p>\n<p>Amy, a pupil at Knole Academy, is one of just 100 young people across the country to become a national ambassador from the 80,000 that took part in the NCS programme in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2011 to create a more responsible society, NCS is a three week programme that brings together 16 and 17 year olds from a range of backgrounds to face outdoor challenges, learn skills for life and work, extend their social networks and make their mark on their community.\u00a0 NCS provides programmes across the country that cost no more than \u00a350, with volunteers spending 30 hours delivering a project of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u00a0said: &#8220;I was delighted to meet Amy.\u00a0 I congratulated her on her achievement and I look forward to supporting her efforts to promote and expand NCS in my constituency in any way I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael welcomed Amy Edwards, who has been selected to become one of the National Citizen Service\u2019s (NCS) national ambassadors, to Parliament last week. Amy, a pupil at Knole Academy, is one of just 100 young people across the country to become a national ambassador from the 80,000 that took part in the NCS programme in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1012\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NCS Ambassador Welcomed to Parliament&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[443,442,434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}