{"id":2949,"date":"2025-12-15T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/?post_type=community&#038;p=2949"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:32:05","slug":"salvation-army-toy-drive","status":"publish","type":"community","link":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/community\/salvation-army-toy-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation Army Toy Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to take a moment to share some incredible news from the Annual Salvation Army Toy Drive, and to thank all of you for making it such a huge success.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we brought our CertaPro trailer out with the goal of filling it with toys\u2026 and thanks to the generosity of our community and the hard work of our team, we filled it not once, not twice, but <strong>three times!<\/strong> The amount of toy donations literally <strong>tripled<\/strong> compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, monetary donations reached an amazing <strong>$40,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>CertaPro also hosted a matching hour from 4:00\u20135:00 PM where we committed to matching up to $1,000. I\u2019m proud to say that hour alone brought in <strong>over $3,300<\/strong> \u2014 far surpassing what we expected. What an unbelievable show of support!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again to everyone who helped organize, participated, or supported this initiative. It was an incredible day, and it wouldn\u2019t have been possible without this amazing team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2949 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/community\/salvation-army-toy-drive\/attachment\/toy-drive-crew\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1130\/2025\/12\/toy-drive-crew-169x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"CertaPro Team at the Salvation Army Toy Drive\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1130\/2025\/12\/toy-drive-crew-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1130\/2025\/12\/toy-drive-crew-576x1024.jpg 576w, 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This year, we brought our CertaPro trailer out with the goal of filling it with toys\u2026 and thanks to the generosity of our community<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/community\/salvation-army-toy-drive\/\">Read the full article <em class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","categories":[20],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-2949","community","type-community","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/community\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/community"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/community"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/community\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}