{"id":8946,"date":"2020-12-21T12:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T12:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/web\/?p=8946"},"modified":"2020-12-21T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T12:37:04","slug":"prestigious-award-for-a-true-living-legend-press-recognises-esb-honorary-vice-president-and-trustee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/prestigious-award-for-a-true-living-legend-press-recognises-esb-honorary-vice-president-and-trustee\/","title":{"rendered":"Prestigious Award for \u2018a true living legend\u2019 \u2013 Press recognises ESB Honorary Vice-President and Trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Further recognition has come in for ESB\u2019s Honorary Vice-President and Trustee, Merriel Halsall-Williams following her recent award of a Fellowship of the prestigious Girls\u2019 Schools Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"633\" src=\"\">Not only has Merriel received a congratulatory letter from Her Majesty\u2019s Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Anna Turner JP, praising her for her outstanding achievements but her work has also been acknowledged in the Shropshire Star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/web\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/merriel-1019x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8948\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been involved with ESB for more than 60 years, Merriel continues to support learners to develop key oracy and literacy skills. ESB\u2019s qualifications inspire a level of confidence which is key to unlocking their potential and raising achievement. The development of effective communication skills, alongside an accredited qualification, gives learners a clear advantage when applying for a place in college, university or in the job market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further recognition has come in for ESB\u2019s Honorary Vice-President and Trustee, Merriel Halsall-Williams following her recent award of a Fellowship of the prestigious Girls\u2019 Schools Association. Not only has Merriel received a congratulatory letter from Her Majesty\u2019s Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Anna Turner JP, praising her for her outstanding achievements but her work has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}