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6 cadets and 3 staff went on the annual London Area Summer Camp for a week where they went water skiing, kayaking, bellboating, did seamanship and first aid sessions, travelled to Belgium to take part in the Menin Gate ceremonies, went over France learning about the First World War, and spent a day at Disneyland.

Jack Petchey award ceremony which four from our unit attended.

The Achievement Award Scheme aims to enable schools, colleges and youth organisations to recognise, reward and celebrate the achievements of their young people. Jack Petchey wants young people to raise their aspirations, believe in themselves and make a contribution to their society.

Achievement Awards are designed to recognise a wide range of achievement. It is not just about being clever, or gifted, but about putting the effort in and doing your best. The scheme works well because young people themselves are involved in nominating and selecting the winners.

This year we nominated Cadet 1st class Collins, Cadet Barnard, and APO Bales

5 cadets from Chiswick unit managed to qualify for the NJIRC, the world’s largest indoor rowing competition for Juniors where 2,500+ young people between ages of 11 & 18 enter. Many of the competitors come from youth rowing clubs making winning the competition very tough.

Congratulations to all those who attended and hopefully we get to return next year.

January 7th 2015 is officially the first day that SLt (SCC) Gaynor Pearce RNR steps down as the Commanding officer. This marks the end of her 9 years of service in charge of T.S. Stork - Chiswick SCC. She leaves the unit to take a position in the Western District team as ADO Competitions and will be taking care of the units in the Northern section of Western District. We wish her all the very best with this new challenge.

Her successor PO (SCC) Chris Horton has been part of Chiswick unit almost as long, being one of the founding Cadets.

Chiswick unit has also become so big there was a need to add a third division for the Cadets. This brings new opportunities for our Cadets to take on different roles within the unit such as Duty Senior rate or Quartermaster.

The Cadets named their divisions after three of the serving RN Type 45 destroyers. They are

The annual 5-a-side tournament was held at RAF Northolt again this year and Chiswick unit was able to field 3 teams.

Our senior boys took two from Wandsworth unit to make a combined team and won all their games to finish first. They will represent Western District at Area the following weekend. NEC Bond-Vaughan also won the Senior boys Player of the Tournament trophy for brilliant sportsmanship and teamwork.

Our junior girls played extremely well despite having only 4 players. They finished a respectable 2nd overall.

The junior boys won all their games in their bracket and managed to beat Wandsworth to finish 1st. 

Well done to all that attended and good luck to those going to area.