{"id":49070,"date":"2024-05-14T13:35:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=49070"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:18:32","slug":"cllr-reverend-julian-macro-jp-elected-new-verwood-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/2024\/05\/cllr-reverend-julian-macro-jp-elected-new-verwood-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cllr Reverend Julian Macro JP elected new Verwood Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verwood Town Council has appointed Cllr Reverend Julian Macro JP as the new town Mayor.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll serve for 2024\/2025 representing Verwood and Three Legged Cross, replacing Cllr Toni Coombs who was elected Deputy Mayor at the public event last night.<\/p>\n<p>The Lake Road resident grew up and went to school in Wimbledon and then studied at universities in Wales and Oxford, taking degrees in Classics and Theology.<\/p>\n<p>Following Ordination he served as Minister of United Reformed Churches in Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p>He moved with his wife Dorothy to Verwood in 2005 and now serves on a number of Church and Charity boards.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed a JP at the age of 28 and served as a Magistrate and in related roles with the Probation and Prison services. Cllr Julian has also been a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of a Housing Association with some 10,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>His charities this year will be the Trussell Trust working within Verwood and the Samaritans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verwood Town Council has appointed Cllr Reverend Julian Macro JP as the new town Mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-49070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-verwood-town-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49075,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49070\/revisions\/49075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martin.mx\/verwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}