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The Unit's AGM will be held upstairs at The Shipwrights' Arms (Tooley Street, opposite Marks and Spencer) at 18 30 on Thursday 10th October. All parents are welcome but, as this is licensed premises, please no under-18s. This will be a good opportunity to meet the Management Committee and other parents, nibbles will be provided.

A group of Cadets spent the day orienteering their way around the North Downs. Some of this group will be competing in the Area Adventure Training Competition next weekend. Good luck boys and girls!

Photo: Left to right- India Steel, Martin Spensley, Savior Onuorah and Gemma Knowles.

After months of preparation and training, the six Cadets took to the water at Wateringbury. Operating as a self-contained team, without adult supervision (except when going through locks), they paddled for six hours to Allington. At Allington they set up camp and fed themselves, before all got together around the camp fire.  On the Sunday the group cooked themselves breakfast, struck camp and paddled, against the current, back to Wateringbury. At Wateringbury the group gave a presentation on what they had learnt about the history of the Medway.

The group passed with flying colours, throughout they were an absolute credit to themselves, the Unit and the Sea Cadet Corps.

Thanks are due to Bexley SCC for the use of their site at Allington and to Ben Bullen, of Ben Bullen Adventures, the expedition leader and assessor.

Photo: Teston Lock. Left to right: Menglin Zhou, PASA Committee Member; Dominic Kennedy, Unit Boating Officer; Imogen Singer; Savior Onuorah;  Yasmine Leblebici; Ben Bullen, Expedition Leader and Alex Smith. Missing are Dawid Wozniak and James Ambler who are on the upstream gate opening the sluices. 

More Photos in the gallery section under Boating, Navigation and Events.

A small group from the Unit’s Parents’ and Supporters’ Association manned a water station for a walk by two local Scout Troops to raise money for breast cancer research. The walk was organised by Mary Cosgrove, Community Life Champion at the Isle of Dogs ASDA store.

Photo- Left to right: Barbara Smith, Unit Fund Raising Officer; Able Cadet Alex “Smudge” Smith and Denise Steel, PASA member.

Fiona Twycross visited the Unit, this visit was kindly arranged by Lt Cdr (SCC) David Lewis MBE JP RNR, Parliamentary & Local Authority Liaison, London Area. The Unit Management Team is very keen on projecting the wonderful things that the Unit offers its young people into the wider community. Fiona’s visit was entirely in line with this purpose. The "civilian" side of the Unit was represented by Menglin Zhou and Steve Borne of the PASA Committee.

Fiona saw all the aspects of a Unit parade night and the cadets were quite at ease chatting with her.  The evening was very informative for all involved. Fiona presented the cadets with some of the qualifications that they earned in France. In her talk with the cadets Fiona emphasised the “making friends” aspect of the SCC- a view that the Unit is happy to whole-heartedly endorse!

Photo- Fiona with the senior cadets