{"id":168,"date":"2015-05-03T13:33:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T12:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2018-04-24T18:07:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:07:51","slug":"about-the-club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/?page_id=168","title":{"rendered":"About The Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>About The Club<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Pennine Training Area (PTA)\u00a0was formed\u00a0in 1960 and is\u00a0part of the Northern Golden Retriever Association (NGRA). We are a Club run by the\u00a0Committee (and Members)\u00a0for the Members. Our aim is\u00a0to train gundogs. All Retriever breeds are welcome to take part.<\/p>\n<p>The Club\u00a0provides tuition for everyone from complete novices to\u00a0experienced handlers.\u00a0Classes are\u00a0held regularly throughout the year at venues in Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, and near Sheffield.\u00a0All locations offer a good variety of ground and cover\u00a0&#8211; providing opportunities to\u00a0train in fields, in water, through woods and undergrowth, over fences and walls, and in the company of other dogs and handlers.<\/p>\n<p>All you\u2019ll need to take part is a dog, a dog whistle, a lead, and probably some waterproofs and wellington boots. Indeed you don\u2019t even have to have a dog \u2013 if you\u2019re interested in gundog training \u2013 you\u2019re welcome to come along to watch, learn,\u00a0and ask for advice.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Please browse our website. There&#8217;s more information about our training programme, and our Events Calendar\u00a0will\u00a0let you know\u00a0you\u00a0what&#8217;s on and when.\u00a0Please get in touch with us\u00a0if you&#8217;d like to get involved, or if you need to know more.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">In order to contact\u00a0the Club\u00a0please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/?page_id=33\">Contact<\/a> page for options. We&#8217;ll endeavour to answer all queries, or direct you to another source of information that might help.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Perhaps we&#8217;ll see you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About The Club The Pennine Training Area (PTA)\u00a0was formed\u00a0in 1960 and is\u00a0part of the Northern Golden Retriever Association (NGRA). We are a Club run by the\u00a0Committee (and Members)\u00a0for the Members. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-c.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"https:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penninetrainingarea.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}