{"id":655,"date":"2025-01-08T18:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=655"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:26:55","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/","title":{"rendered":"14th Stoke on Trent &amp; Newcastle 2nd Newcastle 1st Basford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to the Basford Scout\u2019s website. We are one of the 14 Groups in Newcastle under Lyme in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/staffordshirescouts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">County of Staffordshire<\/a>. Our District is in the north of the County next to the Potteries and it covers a geographical area of approximately 81 square miles (source&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle Borough Council<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">There has been a constant Scouting presence in Newcastle since 1908 and Basford is the oldest group in the District. We are very proud of our single colour green necker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">14<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Stoke-on-Trent \u2013 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;Newcastle \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;Basford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Preparing young people with #skillsforlife<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Basford Scout\u2019s website. We are one of the 14 Groups in Newcastle under Lyme in the&nbsp;County of Staffordshire. Our District is in the north of the County next to the Potteries and it covers a geographical area of approximately 81 square miles (source&nbsp;Newcastle Borough Council). There has been a constant Scouting presence&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/\">Read More <i class=\"far fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"kia_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-655","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basfordscoutgroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}