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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of

Mildenhall Sea Cadet Unit

will be held at the Unit headquarters at Recreation Way, Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 7HG

at 1930 hrs on Wednesday 26^th June 2013

to transact the following business. 

1. Apologies for absence
2. Opening address by either President or Chairman
3. Minutes from 2012 AGM, read and signed.
4. Matters arising from these minutes
5. Chairman’s report
6. CO’s report
7. Treasurer’s report and accounts ratified
8. Election of UMC members
9. Election of Chairman
10. Election of other Officers
11. Date of next AGM
12. Date of next UMC meeting

Cadets, staff, UMC members and Vice-Presidents have worked tirelessly over the past two weeks selling draw tickets and making preparations for the two days of events in order to raise funds for the Royalist campaign. On Saturday 23rd March and Friday 29th March, events were held at the Elveden Inn and Elveden Courtyard Restaurant and were, despite the adverse weather, a great success. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Richard Lawson and his team at Elveden Inn and Steve Pillinger and his team at Elveden Courtyard Restaurant for their help, cooperation and support with this campaign. Following a car wash, activity afternoon, an evening of entertainment, a fete and a prize draw Mildenhall Sea Cadets have pleasure in announcing that they have raised a massive £1282.82.

Sincere thanks have been received from the District Officer and The Captain of the Sea Cadet Corp. 

A list of draw winners are as follows:

1. 1014 Mrs Grey-TV donated by Sainsburys in Mildenhall
2. 1230 S Frost-Family meal for 4 at Elveden Inn
3. 1021 Rosie-£30 meal voucher from Dragon House Chinese Restaurant, Mildenhall
4. 1509 G Hayes-Sunday lunch for 2 at Elveden Courtyard Restaurant
5. 0054 K Smith-Ladies wrist watch purchased with monies donated anonymously
6. 1667 J Thorpe-Stereo system donated by George Hayes
7. 0438 P Kirby-Bog Oak walking stick donated by Arthur Towler
8. 0691 P Clarke-£20 meal voucher from Ghandi Indian Restaurant, Mildenhall
9. 0561 Emma-£20 Bussens & Parkin, Mildenhall voucher
10. 0383 S Abraham-£15 WHS Gift card donated anonymously
11. 0546 M Russell-£15 WHS Gift card donated anonymously
12. 0914 Roy-£10 Ochuns Emporuim, Mildenhall voucher
13. 0017 J Ames-£10 WHS Gift card donated anonymously
14. 0625 S Towler-£10 WHS Gift card donated anonymously
15. 1466 Lawrence & Margaret-£10 WHS Gift card donated anonymously
16. 1545 A Eastwood-£5 Sainsburys gift card donated anonymously
17. 0027 S Starling-£5 Sainsburys gift card donated anonymously
18. 0181 M Denston-£5 Sainsburys gift card donated anonymously
19. 0932 D Last-A trio of wine donated by Sara Kindler
20. 0554 C Hilborne-Ladies necklace purchased with monies donated by anonymously
21. 0857 M Patterson-Haircare basket donated by All About Hair, Mildenhall

Congratulations and thank you all, and also to those that were not so successful, for donating to the campaign. Your generous donations will ensure that the future experiences of Sea Cadets nationwide will continue.

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Mildenhall & District Sea Cadet unit were honoured and proud to be invited to provide a welcome party at this event on Friday 20th July. Following an evening of outstanding music and entertainment staff and cadets helped the Ely branch of SSAFA with their retiring collection. We should like to thank SSAFA for their generous donation of £200 for our efforts.

On Saturday 25th February Councilller Tony Wheble along with the members of the Projects Working Committee from Mildenhall Parish Council attended a Grand Boat Shed Opening. Following photographs, a welcome address and a prayer the Chairman Cllr Wheble cut the ribbon. Also present were friends from the local branch of the Royal British Legion, cadets, staff, UMC members and Parents. Once proceedings had finished everyone retired to the main deck for a lunch.

Also present was Counciller Stephen Frost to inspect the new Trinity 500 boat that he helped to fund.

On Thursday 26th January the CO, Chairman, PO Banks and Mrs Towler drove to RAF Cranwell to collect the new unit Trinity 500. Mrs Towler drove very carefully to make sure that the boat arrived in one piece.

The purchase of the boat was made possible following some vigorous fundraising by the cadets and a very generous £750 donation from Counciller Stephen Frost. We would like to thank Cllr Frost for his support and Sainsburys for allowing us to pack bags just before Christmas, raising £975.

We look forward to training for the District Regatta in May.