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Each year the offshore vessels of the Sea Cadets take hundreds of cadets offshore to experience life at sea.

On 19th November POC Howe from F&A joined TS Royalist, the 99ft Square Brig flagship of the SCC, for a week sailing along the South Coast. She had an amazing time, learnt lots of new skills and had a brilliant week sailing a tall ship; something that was only made possible due to bursaries from Area.

The offshore courses are open to everyone over 13 1/2, and we really recommend looking into what funding is available, as it most certainly is the experience of a lifetime!

To read an account of the week, please follow the link below: (you must be a facebook user to view this :S)

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1349769966&sk=notes 

The last week in November saw 3 cadets from F&A travel by train to MOD Caledonia for a 1st Class First Aid course. Well done to POC Blackstaffe, POC Newton and LC Nye for passing the course, it sounds like you had a brilliant time despite the long journey!

Well done to all the cadets that attended the competition, F&A did really well:

Juniors  - joint 3rd

Junior Boys (mixed F&A and Bedford) - 3rd

Junior Girls (mixed F&A and Bedford) - 1st

Senior Boys (mixed F&A and Bedford) - 2nd

Senior Girls (F&A, Luton, Biggleswade) - 2nd

A brilliant day was had by all, good luck to all district teams going to the Area competition!

Thanks to the CO, PO Turner-Weir, CI Day, and CI Wixted for making the day possible.

Thursday 20th saw the unit's AGM and Prizegiving take place. The evening gave both the cadets and their parents the opportunity to see what goes on behind the scenes, as well as giving everyone involved with the unit a chance to celebrate the achievements of the past year.

The following awards were presented:

Boatwork : POC Charlotte Newton

Community Involvement: Cdt  Ryan Horvat-Kelly

Best Junior Cadet: JC Jack Keene

Most Promising Young Cadet: Cdt Ben Lugg

Best Dressed Cadet: POC Charlotte Newton

The Hellawell Cup: POC Jake Blackstaffe  (Awarded to the highest achieving cadet)

Cadet of the Year: POC Emily Howe

The cadets all did themselves proud in terms of their uniform and the ceremonial colours routine, and we'd like to thank Cllr Sally Bacon, Mayor of Ampthill for generously presenting the awards.

This weekend the unit started properly training for the District competition, to be held on 11th December.

We had a really successful weekend and the cadets did themselves proud. Judging by the standard at this early stage, we can hopefully emulate the success of previous years!