{"id":30616,"date":"2024-10-19T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T09:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?p=30616"},"modified":"2024-10-19T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T09:36:31","slug":"1st-stoke-on-trent-newcastle-st-andrews-porthill-scout-group-1908-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2024\/10\/19\/1st-stoke-on-trent-newcastle-st-andrews-porthill-scout-group-1908-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Stoke on Trent &#038; Newcastle St. Andrews Porthill Scout Group 1908 &#8211; 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23979\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2017\/01\/02\/hello-2017-were-back\/1908-jpeg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?fit=1787%2C1312&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1787,1312\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"1908 jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?fit=640%2C470&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23979\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?resize=300%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?resize=768%2C564&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?resize=1024%2C752&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?w=1787&amp;ssl=1 1787w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is with great sadness that we announce the closure of the Group. We&#8217;ve been unable to attract new Leaders and we don&#8217;t have enough to safely continue. Added to this, our meeting place since 1909, St. Andrews Church Hall, is sadly being closed at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been a part of Porthill&#8217;s community for 116 years and we are proud to have played a part in thousands of young people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who has been a member, a parent, a helper and Leader, you&#8217;ve all been brilliant! Thank you to St. Andrew&#8217;s church for its constant support over the years.<\/p>\n<p>1st Porthill Scouts won&#8217;t be forgotten!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we announce the closure of the Group. We&#8217;ve been unable to attract new Leaders and we don&#8217;t have enough to safely continue. Added to this, our meeting place since 1909, St. Andrews Church Hall, is sadly being closed at the end of the year. We&#8217;ve been a part of&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2024\/10\/19\/1st-stoke-on-trent-newcastle-st-andrews-porthill-scout-group-1908-2024\/\">Read More <i class=\"far fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"kia_subtitle":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-group"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgGvD-7XO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1908-jpeg.jpg?fit=1787%2C1312&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30617,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616\/revisions\/30617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}