{"id":70156,"date":"2025-10-15T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/general-synod-2026-to-be-held-in-stirling\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:24:00","slug":"general-synod-2026-to-be-held-in-stirling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/general-synod-2026-to-be-held-in-stirling\/","title":{"rendered":"General Synod 2026 to be held in Stirling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The annual General Synod meeting of the Scottish Episcopal Church is to be held outside Edinburgh for the first time in over 20 years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">From 11-13 June 2026, General Synod will be held in the main conference facility at the Stirling Court Hotel, on the University of Stirling campus.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The move away from Edinburgh takes place after difficulties emerged in recent years over securing accommodation in Edinburgh during June, with availability becoming increasingly limited and room rate costs soaring.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Provincial Standing Committee assessed the options for 2026, listening to concerns about the costs and practical challenges that are brought by meeting in Edinburgh in June. After then considering key factors such as access, capacity and accommodation, the committee opted to host next year\u2019s Synod at the Stirling Court Hotel.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As well as offering excellent facilities and affordable room rates, the campus is centrally located, allowing easier travel access for many General Synod members<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The campus also offers attractive surroundings where Synod members could spend time together way from the business of the meeting.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;This is a welcome opportunity to try a new venue that will help us to be in community together,\u201d said Cathy Johnston, Convener of the Provincial Standing Committee. \u201cIt will be quite different from meeting in central Edinburgh, and that might stimulate fresh ways of thinking as we develop the way forward for our church.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The General Synod Office will manage bookings of accommodation on behalf of attendees directly with the Stirling Court Hotel so that synod members do not have to book for themselves or cover the cost of accommodation. The General Synod Office will provide further details, including information on accessible accommodation, in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Photo courtesy of Stirling Court Hotel<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual General Synod meeting of the Scottish Episcopal Church is to be held outside Edinburgh for the first time in over 20 years.\u00a0 From 11-13 June 2026, General Synod will be held in the main conference facility at the Stirling Court Hotel, on the University of Stirling campus.\u00a0 The move away from Edinburgh takes [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}