{"id":18418,"date":"2026-04-21T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=18418"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:04:11","slug":"2026-03-23-platinum-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=18418","title":{"rendered":"2026-03-23 &#8211; Platinum Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday 23rd March, District Lead Volunteer, Neil Gearing, attended the Johnston ESU&#8217;s section evening to present 6 Chief Scout Platinum awards to Caitlin, Dilan, Kaden, George, Maisie and Leo. Platinum awards are not easily achieved and to put things in perspective, these were the first awarded in 5 years, so very well done to all of you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18420 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.30.37.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1151\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.30.37.png 1151w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.30.37-300x193.png 300w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.30.37-1024x659.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.30.37-768x494.png 768w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.30.37-466x300.png 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1151px) 100vw, 1151px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18421 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.32.00.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1244\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.32.00.png 1244w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.32.00-300x166.png 300w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.32.00-1024x567.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.32.00-768x425.png 768w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-04-21-at-22.32.00-500x277.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1244px) 100vw, 1244px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 23rd March, District Lead Volunteer, Neil Gearing, attended the Johnston ESU&#8217;s section evening to present 6 Chief Scout Platinum awards to Caitlin, Dilan, Kaden, George, Maisie and Leo. Platinum awards are not easily achieved and to put things &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=18418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scoutnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18423,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18418\/revisions\/18423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}