{"id":18613,"date":"2026-10-10T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=18613"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:19:25","slug":"silver-acorn-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=18613","title":{"rendered":"Silver Acorn Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">A \u2018Silver Acorn\u2019 award, which is Scouting&#8217;s good service award and only awarded after at least 20 years\u2019 service, which should be especially distinguished and appreciably better than outstanding. Was presented to Del \u2018Skippy\u2019 Hurd at the Dartford District Scouts&#8217; AGM on Monday 28th September by the District Lead Volunteer Neil Gearing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">I am sure I am saying a big thank you from all of us to Skippy for his dedication and support to Scouting over the many years he has been volunteering.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18614 size-large\" style=\"border: 0px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1417-970x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1417-970x1024.jpeg 970w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1417-284x300.jpeg 284w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1417-768x811.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1417.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018Silver Acorn\u2019 award, which is Scouting&#8217;s good service award and only awarded after at least 20 years\u2019 service, which should be especially distinguished and appreciably better than outstanding. Was presented to Del \u2018Skippy\u2019 Hurd at the Dartford District Scouts&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=18613\">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-18613","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\/18613","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=18613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18619,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions\/18619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}