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Deserving recipients of the Jack Petchey Awards, A/C Jefferies, A/C Ann and JFC Warnes were treated to a special awards ceremony held at The Great Hall Kensington recently.

A busy weekend was had at Ts. Trafalger, hosting the Southern District Drill and Piping Competition. All that attended had worked hard at their turnout and drills.Resulting in the following,

Junior Piping Team, 1st.JSC's Warnes, Ampousah & Grierson.

Senior Piping. POC Walker& AC Clark. Two of a joint team form Chislehurst & Sydenham Units.

Junior Individual. JSC Warnes.
Senior Individual. POC Walker.

The drill team has gone forward by default due to no other team attending.

Well done to all for their efforts, all will go forward to the Area Competition in April.

Following a special invitation from HMS Ocean our affiliated ship, Cadets and Staff travelled to it's home base at Plymouth for a "Families Day". On arrival at the ship, after being graciously accommodated at HMS Raleigh nearby,including a surprise evening trip to Looe, the group were met and ushered on board for a truly unforgetable day,witnessed at first hand was the leaving harbour routine, led out by tugs, through the very tight channels to the open sea. First was a tour around the various static displays on the vehicle and hanger decks showing various facets of the ship's makeup. Later a simulated attack was carried out on the ship by a Hawk trainer and displays by a lynx and sea king helicopter on landing and take off drills. It was a beautiful warm,sunny day and a packed lunch provided by the ship, was enjoyed up on the flight deck along with many of the families of the ship's company. Further tours around the ship were taken and fire-fighting practise was all part of the fun.A trip around the ship was taken in an LCVP provided by members of 9 Assault Sqdn RM, courtesy of an ex member of TS Trafalgar, set the seal on the day.
An evening return to Plymouth ended what turned out to be an unforgettable day for Cadets and Staff alike. Letters of thanks will be sent to our hosts who are now off on deployment.

Unfortunately, due to various reasons, the P&SA are seriously depleted now but four or five parents have kindly taken on the challeng, but we could still do with more volunteers, Mums, Dads, family or anyone who could give up a small amount of their spare time to assist in fund-raising or preparing the Cadet's "stand-easy" on a Tuesday and Friday evening,or to generaly assisting,to enable the very hard working Staff to concentrate on the classes. Please contact the Unit if you feel you can assist in any way possible.

Members of the local Submariners Association have decided to have their last meeting due to age and falling numbers.
TS Trafalgar are honoured that the remaining members of the Association have requested that their Standard be laid up at the Unit and this has now been handed over.