{"id":1639,"date":"2025-10-28T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:54:24","slug":"extra-ordinary-general-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/extra-ordinary-general-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra-Ordinary General Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-block_b2f88ac06b975ccd2ba991c4e765c592 class=\"post-page-banner align\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Friends-Badge-Small.jpg\n   )\">\n  <div class=\"container content-container text-center d-flex align-items-center flex-column justify-content-center\">\n    <h1 class=\"text-white\">\n      Extra-Ordinary General Meeting\n    <\/h1>\n    <h2 class=\"h3 text-white\"><time class=\"dt-published\" datetime=\"2025-10-28T16:53:43+00:00\">\n      28 October 2025\n    <\/time><\/h2>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arnold Wills Elected Chairman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At an Extra-Ordinary Meeting of the Friends of Wells Cathedral on Saturday, Arnold Wills was elected as the new Chairman of the Friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"912\" height=\"912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arnold-wills.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arnold-wills.jpg 912w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arnold-wills-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arnold-wills-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arnold-wills-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A vote of thanks was made to the retiring Chairman, Michael Hopkins, who was also presented with a gift by the Secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Chairman Elected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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