{"id":25100,"date":"2026-08-03T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=25100"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:08:45","slug":"meta-charity-golf-day-celebrates-another-successful-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/meta-charity-golf-day-celebrates-another-successful-year\/","title":{"rendered":"META Charity Golf Day celebrates another successful year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Merseyside Electrical Trades Association (META) has once again delivered a successful Charity Golf Day, bringing together leading names from across the electrical industry in support of children\u2019s charities including Claire House, Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital, Zoe\u2019s Place and the Electrical Industries Charity.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event, held in July at Blundell&#8217;s Hill Golf Club, saw strong participation from manufacturers, wholesalers and buying groups. Teams from Hager, Marshall Tufflex, ProjectEV, Edmundson Electrical, independent wholesalers and, for the first time, the IBA Buying Group all took part, reflecting the growing reach and impact of the annual fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2026 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li><strong>Team Winners:<\/strong> IBA Group (Captains: Andy Huddlestone &amp; Carl Lee)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Team Runners-Up:<\/strong> SED Liverpool (Captain: Marc Redfern)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Individual Winner:<\/strong> Paul Hughes, Hager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>META also acknowledged the generous support of event sponsor Ansell Lighting, alongside contributions from Aico and\u00a0Wiska. A dedicated team of volunteers included LCA&#8217;s Lawrence Crawford, Andrea (Ansell), Georgia (Elucian), Dave McBride (Stearn), and Steve Fletcher (Teum).<\/p>\n<p>Organisers emphasised that anyone can support the charities involved &#8211; whether through time, expertise or donations. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meta-fundraising.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meta-fundraising.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With a confirmed date of 8 July 2027, META is already looking ahead to another memorable day next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Merseyside Electrical Trades Association (META) has once again delivered a successful Charity Golf Day, bringing together leading names from across the electrical industry in support of children\u2019s charities including Claire House, Alder Hey Children\u2019s Hospital, Zoe\u2019s Place and the Electrical Industries Charity. This year\u2019s event, held in July at Blundell&#8217;s Hill Golf Club, saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1784885834228.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25103,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25100\/revisions\/25103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}