{"id":173,"date":"2009-08-03T16:50:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=173"},"modified":"2014-10-10T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:03:34","slug":"the-ventures-start","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/1970s-1980s\/the-ventures-start\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ventures Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1985 Dennis Powner and Andy Franks started up a Venture Unit at Porthill.<\/p>\n

\"Venture<\/a><\/p>\n

Niki Johnson being invested as a Venture by David Wood, Andy Franks & Dennis Powner<\/p>\n

By 1986, Steve Padin had left the Troop as he’d been offered a job at the California Institute of Technology (the commute every Wednesday night was a bit much!) and Ken Johnson had taken over as Scout Leader. An Assistant Leader arrived from Longport Scouts by the name of Dave Farr.<\/p>\n

By now the Group was regularly holding Hoe Downs as a means of fund raising. These were successfully run for many year by the core executive team of Mike Gritton, Irene O’Donnell and Maureen Lowndes.<\/p>\n

\"Hoe\"Hoe<\/div>\n
In the second photo, it looks like the Troop has recently won the Allcock trophy from the District!<\/div>\n
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On 26th and 27th March 1988, members of the Troop completed a 15.6 mile hike for their Chief Scout’s Award. You can see the hike log here.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

By mid 1988, the Venture Unit was started up again with the older members of the Troop and some new members.<\/p>\n

\"VentureStephen Johnson being invested by Gill Blaze, ADC Ventures. Also present is Ken Johnson, Malcolm Blaze (Burslem District’s DC), Andy Franks & David Wood.<\/p>\n

\"Venture<\/p>\n

Ventures present at the investiture – Stephen Johnson, David Powner, Chris Palin, Jonathan Gritton, Mathew Potts, Nick Wood, Joanne Patterson, Jeanette (?), one person unknown and Mathew Richards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A month or so later the Ventures are celebrating Andy Franks’ 24th birthday. It can be seen that they are wearing the Venture’s 21st birthday badges.<\/div>\n
\"Ventures<\/a><\/div>\n
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L to R back row – Mathew Richards, Andy Franks, Gareth O’Donnell & Stephen Johnson
\nFront row – David Johnson, Sara ?, Joanne Patterson & David Powner<\/div>\n
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\"21st\"<\/div>\n
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1988 saw the 21st birthday of Venture Scouting and the Unit took part in many activities to celebrate. There was a birthday party at Shugborough which the unit attended as part of the\u00a0District\u00a0and the Everest Challenge which took place at Trentham Gardens in October 1988. The challenge was for Ventures to climb the\u00a0height\u00a0of Mount Everest (29,000 feet or so). At Trentham a scaffolding tower was constructed and teams of 4 Ventures climbed up and down the tower in shifts to represent the climbing of Everest!<\/div>\n

In 1985 Dennis Powner and Andy Franks started up a Venture Unit at Porthill. Niki Johnson being invested as a Venture by David Wood, Andy Franks & Dennis Powner By 1986, Steve Padin had left the Troop as he’d been offered a job at the California Institute of Technology (the commute every Wednesday night was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":112,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PB7Sa-2N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions\/1132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}