{"id":7334,"date":"2016-09-24T23:09:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/russell-brand-gives-his-east-london-cafe-to-charity\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T05:59:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T23:59:36","slug":"russell-brand-gives-his-east-london-cafe-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/russell-brand-gives-his-east-london-cafe-to-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand gives his east London cafe to charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Russell Brand is donating a not-for-profit cafe he opened last year to a charity which supports ex-prisoners and people struggling with addiction.<\/p>\n

The comedian joked that he hoped the move might secure him a \u201ccushy job in the library\u201d if he ever ended up in jail.<\/p>\n

The Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust, known as RAPt, described the donation as a \u201cwonderful opportunity\u201d for them to boost their work.<\/p>\n

Russell Brand at the opening of the cafe (Nick Ansell\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Russell, who is patron of the charity, launched the Trew Era Cafe on the New Era estate in Hoxton, east London, more than a year ago, hailing it as a \u201cfully self-supporting, new economic enterprise\u201d.<\/p>\n

The cafe, which fuses the estate\u2019s name with that of Russell\u2019s YouTube show, The Trews, will become one of RAPt\u2019s so-called recovery enterprises, which are staffed and managed by recovering addicts.<\/p>\n

The cafe being donated (Nick Ansell\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

David Bernstein, RAPt chairman of trustees, said: \u201cThis is a wonderful opportunity for RAPt to further strengthen our employment and enterprise activities for ex-offenders and recovering addicts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re enormously grateful to Russell for his generosity in donating the cafe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russell said: \u201cI\u2019m donating this cafe to RAPt \u2013 a great charity that helps prisoners stay clean. If I ever get sent down I hope this\u2019ll mean I get a cushy job in the library.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russell Brand is donating a not-for-profit cafe he opened last year to a charity which supports ex-prisoners and people struggling with addiction. The comedian joked that he hoped the move might secure him a \u201ccushy job in the library\u201d if he ever ended up in jail. The Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust, known as RAPt, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}