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A fantastic evening with The Mayor of Poole who is also our Patron, Peter Miles and his Macebearers.
Learning about the town's historic civic regalia and it's history was fascinating.
The appropriate location was the parish church of St James in the Old Town.
Thank you very much for arranging such a wonderful evening.

We are asking for your support for our planning application for the proposed new HQ building.
Please read the attached and if you can send a supporting email to BCP Council:
planning.poole@bcpcouncil.gov.uk
Our reference number is:
APP/24/01295/F

Many thanks

POOLE SEA CADETS EMBRACE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – March 8th.

Poole Sea Cadets is proud to continue naturally embedding the aims of International Women’s Day within its day-to-day activities.

Sometimes the Sea Cadets, which is a national charity, is incorrectly perceived to be male dominated. This perception is entirely wrong and in Poole more than half of our cadets and volunteers are female.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to us and lie at the heart of our mission to help our sixty young people achieve their potential.

The 2025 International Women’s Day campaign theme is 'Accelerate Action' for gender equality. Within Poole Sea Cadets we perceive this as entirely natural as we implement many activities that positively impact the advancement of women.

We try positively to recruit, retain, and develop diverse talent. In doing this we support all our cadets with both women and girls being involved in leadership and decision-making whilst giving everyone access to quality education and maritime-orientated training.

Trustee Michelle said, “The great benefit of the Sea Cadets is that equal opportunities are taken for granted. My son has done extremely well but also have girls who joined at the same time as him. They all get on so well together. My daughter Emily, who was a sea cadet is now a Petty Officer and helps teach sailing during the summer. She was offered work through the Marine Society and Sea Cadets on Royalist, the Sea Cadet’s sailing training ship, during the offshore season as temporary cover bosun. “

The colour for International Women’s Day is symbolically purple, which signifies justice and dignity and was also worn by the Suffragettes, who campaigned for women’s right to vote, in the early 20th century.

International Women’s Day, which itself has been around since 1911, will be an important annual opportunity for us to elevate and amplify the focus on gender equality, which is something all our volunteers and cadets wholeheartedly embrace.

Poole Sea Cadets were amongst 20 recipients in this year’s Hall and Woodhouse Community Chest Awards.

Grants totalling over £30,000 were distributed at an event held at the brewery in Blandford which was also attended by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset Michael Dooley and civic dignitaries from across the region.

To date, the H&W Community Chest has awarded over £800,000 to more than 900 causes across the south of England.

Mark Woodhouse, family director, said: “Our Community Chest Awards celebrate the amazing people doing fantastic things in our local areas and are a chance to thank and to give back to those who go above and beyond to help others. We are proud that the Community Chest is now in its 23rd year and we have already committed to returning the awards for 2025, extending our support further with another grant fund.”

Lee Hardy, Chairman of Poole Sea Cadets said, “Our charity is extremely grateful for the generosity of such a long-standing and well-respected Dorset company. It takes a huge effort from our volunteers to look after our 60 girls and boys ranging from 10-18 years of age. It is very costly too, especially as we are hoping to expand soon into a proposed new headquarters for which every penny raised will count.”

A little late we came across this photo of our band playing Carols on Poole Quay just before Christmas, and couldn't resist re-posting it.
Thank you to the Custom House Poole - Bistro & Bar - for taking this and to the Old Town Poole Community Group for their organisation for what started as a "chilly" evening but soon warmed up! The mince pies were excellent incidentally!