Nine City of London Cadets, three Enfield Cadets and two members of staff spent the day at the Lee Valley Park. They started with a couple of hours on the Olympic White Water Rafting Circuit and ended with a chill-out picnic in the Nature Reserve. Imogen Singer said “It was really exciting smashing through the rapids, while concentrating on the orders that you’re being given”.
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Three cadets and one member of staff attended the London Area Summer Camp at Crowborough. The week was packed with activities such as kayaking, adventure training, drill, seamanship, first aid and leadership.
The three cadets came home for a couple of days before travelling to Cornwall with five other cadets from the Unit for a week of more extreme adventure with the London Area Adventure Training Team at Summer Rock. Activities included sea canoeing, coasteering, rock climbing, adventure training and surfing.
Cadet Gabrielle Bueser said that Summer Camp was fun and that she enjoyed making new friends with cadets from other Units. Gabrielle was even more enthused by Summer Rock: "Summer Rock is wicked. I super enjoyed the activities, especially the surfing and coasteering. The location of the camp [RAF St Mawgan] was amazing!". Able Cadet Teddy Janes throughly enjoyed Summer Rock and commented that he particularly loved the rock climbing and the food.
Photo: The way down is easier than the way up!
The Units Parents’ and Supporters’ Association hosted the CFVA’s Summer Social, the event was deemed a great success. Eddie Dibley, the CFVA’s secretary wrote: “My sincere thanks for your efforts in ensuring that last Sunday was a huge success. A feeling shared by all who attended I would like to add!” For an account of who the CFVA represents see the web entry for 21st July 2013.
Thanks are due to PASA committee members Maureen (Mo) Ambler (and husband Tony) and Maria Odete; PASA members Samya Soriel and Gearoid O’Caoimh and Cadets Jonathan, Antony and Callum.
Photo, left to right: Samya, Maria, Callum and Antony
The past couple of months have seen a flurry of good training outcomes:
CADETS
Teddy Janes, Malanie Villacis-Freire, Jonathan Gors-Baldajos, Svetlana Nartey and Grace Whitton have passed the Ropework and Rigging Course.
Able Cadet Zak Bartley passed his RYA Level 2 Powerboat course at the Sea Cadet Training Centre at HMS Rayleigh.
Junior Cadets Raymond Borg, Tommylee Borg, Aron Leader and Alex Amin attained the JSC Green Outdoor and Recreation Badge while camping in the New Forest.
Teddy Janes has passed the Supervised Cox course.
Emilia Temblett has passed both RYA Level 1 and Level 2 Powerboat.
Cadet 1st Class Imogen Singer obtained Offshore- Sail Grade 1, during a week aboard TS Royalist.
Cadet 1st Class Dawid Wozniak passed Marine Engineering Class 2.
ADULTS
Eight adults have passed the Protecting Information Course, including Emilia- now a member of staff.
Dominic Kennedy has passed the Adult Induction Course.
Jason Rochester has passed the Basic Leadership Module and he has also passed the Marine Engineering Advanced Instructor Course.
Well done, all of you!
Photo: On the yardarm, Imogen centre left. Imogen’s trip departed Gosport, taking in Dieppe and Boulogne before returning to the UK.
A small group of Cadets represented the Unit at the International Cargo Insurance Conference held at the picturesque Heythrop Park Conference Centre near Chipping Norton. The organisers had very kindly invited the Cadets to attend the gala dinner. The Cadets piped the other guests to dinner. Able Cadet Bartley delivered a short speech to the Conference about the Unit’s recent trip to the Norfolk Broads. This speech is unlikely to be forgotten by the audience. Though however entertaining AB Bartley might have been, he was not quite capable of eclipsing the official guest speaker, Brian Blessed.
The Unit thanks the guests for their individual generosity and the Conference Organisers for their generous donation to the Unit. Special thanks must go to the Conference Chairman, Aiden Holly of Lloyds.
Photo: Left to right- Zak, James, Imogen and our UMT Chairman, Captain (MN) John L David.
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