{"id":2166,"date":"2024-07-01T13:56:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:56:37","slug":"celebrating-leith-rugby-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/2024\/07\/01\/celebrating-leith-rugby-sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Leith Rugby sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Castle Community Bank has been proudly supporting Leith Rugby Youth Development since September 2023. Recently our Chief Executive Adrian Sargent went along to a practice day down at Leith Academy playing fields to see our sponsorship in action.<\/p>\n<p>Leith Rugby Junior Convenor Alex Bowman and Treasurer Russell Duncan gave him a warm welcome and presented Adrian with a framed sponsored Leith Hawks shirt to say thank you for the community investment.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re really pleased to be able to invest in our community through Leith Rugby Youth Development shirt sponsorship. This is just one of the ways we can make difference in our community. Social impact like this is important to both us and our members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2168 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Leith-Rugby-visit.png\" alt=\"Adrian chats with team at Leith Rugby during practice at Leith Academy.\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Leith-Rugby-visit.png 940w, https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Leith-Rugby-visit-480x402.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 940px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s great to have Castle Community Bank as a local supporter and sponsor. Leith Rugby develops youth rugby in Leith and encourages local boys and girls to take up sport and embrace the associated health and wellbeing benefits. We rely on community sponsorship to pay for everything from kits to pitch hire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2170 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Untitled-design-5-576x1024.png\" alt=\"Souvenirs collection in Leith Rugby cub room \" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2171 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LR-club-room--576x1024.png\" alt=\"Trophy cabinet in Leith Rugby club room \" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leith Rugby always need new volunteers to help around the club with various on and off field pursuits. From key roles on the committee that will help to move the club forward to the jobs that may only take an hour or 2 every month or year that help to lighten the load on existing volunteers. If you would like to get involved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leithrugby.com\/news\/volunteers-needed-2794549.html\">find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2181\" src=\"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Little-Leithers-.png\" alt=\"Children playing rugby in sponsored shirts at Leith Academy playing fields \" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Little-Leithers-.png 940w, https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Little-Leithers--480x402.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 940px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2169\" src=\"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LR-badge--1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Photo of Leith Rugby 100 years banner \" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LR-badge--1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LR-badge--980x980.png 980w, https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/LR-badge--480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Executive Adrian Sargent went along to a practice day down at Leith Academy playing fields to see our sponsorship in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castlecommunitybank.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}