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Junior Sea Cadets from Hebburn baked cakes and helped to raise £252.17 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month on 24 October 2015 at the Glen Medical Group, Hebburn. The cadets who were all aged between 10 -12, gave up their weekend to bake and decorate over  40 cakes, as they learn more about good citizenship. Cadets then sold them at a cake sale at The Glen Medical Group to raise money for breast cancer research. 

Hebburn Sea Cadets Officer in Charge, Derek Brown said, “We encourage cadets to learn about food, healthy eating and the benefits of taking part in community events. There are countless benefits for eating a healthy diet and staying active, but it is also good to treat ourselves once in a while and we were thrilled to have been able to get involved in this fantastic local event.”

Lynn Crutwell, Glen Medical Group Practice Manager said, “We would like to say a big thank you to Hebburn Sea Cadets for helping our staff with our cake sale last Saturday.  They not only baked some fantastic cakes but came along to sell them and helped us raise an incredible amount of money for a very worthy cause – we couldn’t have done it without them".

Read more from the South Shields Gazette here: Hebburn Cadets cook up a storm for charity

Sea Cadets from all across the UK spent the weekend in London to celebrate Trafalgar Day on Sunday 18 October 2015. 400 young people met in Trafalgar Square to perform impressive displays of skip jump, formal parading with a 60 strong Massed Band to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar from 10.30am – 12.00pm. Up to 2,000 spectators were there.  It's a chance for cadets to show off team working skills and musical talents to dignitaries from the Royal Navy and to London’s spectators and tourists. This year cadets from the Air Training Corps and Army Cadet Force also joined the parade.

For over 100 years, Sea Cadets have marked the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar with a parade on Trafalgar Square, London on the Sunday closest to 21 October.

Some of our cadets have enjoyed the range of summer camps  on offer. Junior cadets from all over the UK enjoyed their camp at Dearne Valley, Kingswood for a week of fun and adventure in August. Dearne Valley is an environmentally sustainable centre near York for adventure activity including ropes, zipwire and watersports - right up our street!

The Chronicle's Wish Campaign enables not for profit groups to receive a share of £30,000 by collecting tokens from the newspaper. We've been selected as a group which will benefit so we're asking all of our cadets, parents and supporters to collect their tokens and bring them in to the Unit. For more information on our fundraising efforts, please go to the support us tab on our homepage.