{"id":9794,"date":"2015-03-31T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=9794"},"modified":"2015-03-31T16:08:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:08:44","slug":"2015-03-31-climbing-wall-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=9794","title":{"rendered":"2015-03-31 &#8211; Staircase Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akdcontracts.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9795\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/AKD1.jpg\" alt=\"AKD\" width=\"64\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DartfordBoroughCouncil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DartfordBoroughCouncil.jpg\" alt=\"DartfordBoroughCouncil\" width=\"139\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a>\u00a0As you will recall, the 5th Dartford Scout Group were generously gifted a fantastic bespoke\u00a0steel staircase by Adam Clarke of\u00a0<a title=\"AKD Contracts Ltd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.akdcontracts.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">AKD Contracts Ltd<\/a>.\u00a0 We are pleased to confirm the staircase has now been completed and brought in to use and we can hardly begin to thank Adam and his team of committed engineers for bringing this project to fruition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to ensure only authorised and supervised access, we felt we had to include fencing and a lockable gate to protect the young folk in our care; once again Adam was quick to respond and upon visiting our site on Friday 20th March, he drafted plans and a quotation.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take us long\u00a0to consider who best to approach to fund this additional work, and our first thought was Councillor Jeremy\u00a0Kite, Leader of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartford.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dartford Borough Council<\/a>, who once again generously approved the funding under the council&#8217;s\u00a0Salute to Youth community plan. This went through in record time and Adam&#8217;s team have almost completed; that&#8217;s planning, funding approval and completion within a fortnight!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We will update this post as soon as it&#8217;s completed, but we felt it was so important to publicly thank Councillor Kite and\u00a0<a title=\"AKD Contracts Ltd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.akdcontracts.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">AKD Contracts Ltd<\/span><\/span><\/a>. on behalf of all the young people in our community who will benefit from this fabulous and safe addition to the adventurous activities the 5th Dartford Scout\u00a0Group offers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thank You.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stair_Cage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stair_Cage.jpg\" alt=\"Stair_Cage\" width=\"1600\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stair_Cage.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stair_Cage-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stair_Cage-1024x579.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stair_Cage-500x283.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stair_Cage-900x509.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0As you will recall, the 5th Dartford Scout Group were generously gifted a fantastic bespoke\u00a0steel staircase by Adam Clarke of\u00a0AKD Contracts Ltd.\u00a0 We are pleased to confirm the staircase has now been completed and brought in to use and we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=9794\">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":[6,7,11,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaver-blog","category-cub-blog","category-explorer-blog","category-scoutnews","category-scout-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","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=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9800,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions\/9800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}