'Some things are more important than money': Row as 80-year-old Scout group faces closure due to church land sale
direct to your inboxAn 80-year-old Scout group faces closure after failing to raise enough money to buy the land on which its hut stands.The 9th Sale Scouts needed to find £150,000 by July 31 this year after St Anne's Church announced it was selling off the land to help fund repairs.But after the group's fundraising efforts were badly hampered by the Covid pandemic leaders have now admitted 'time is running out'. Scout group chair Christine Gleaves, who has been involved with the 9th Sale troop for almost 40 years, said: "The church want to sell to fund repairs and I can see their point of view, but this is a thriving Scout group in a deprived area.