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January 2017 saw the unit training for the upcoming Drill and Piping competitions. These are hard fought competitions with cadets putting in many hours of training to hopefully become the best. This year the unit entered a colour party, piping teams and individuals. All of their hard work and commitment paid off , as they all won the first competition which was District. The next stage was area, the standard of competition then gets tougher , again the cadets showed true commitment and came out with a third in Individual piping (bronze medal) and fourths in the others - Well done to all the cadets and staff involved in a tremendous achievement

We would like to say a big thank you to Mr Tipper for pressure washing the pontoons. They look very much better all we need to do now is solve the Duck  and Sea Gull issue.

Monday 06^th February 2017, the Youth Theatre at the Oasis Academy was the venue of choice to hold the postponed 2016 Cadet Annual Award Ceremony.

The band opened the show with a short set performed by the newest members of the band with the majority being Junior Sea Cadets and some who have only joined the band this year. A great effort from them all well played.

After a few domestic notices and course adverts, don’t forget there are literally hundreds of opportunities for our cadets to attend courses in dozens of subjects at other exciting venues, so if you want a new challenge as a cadet or for you cadet speak to a member of staff at the Unit.

We moved on to the main event, firstly cadets were presented with qualifications and awards that they have worked for and been awarded over the last few months, these included Catering, First Aid and a first for the Unit an Home grown Musicians Award, finishing with the presentation of two Btec Awards.

The Officer in Charge Sub Lieutenant (SCC) Bassett RNR then presented the annual awards, some of which are voted for by the Unit Staff, some by the Cadets of the Unit and some are just awarded on statistical data recorded over the year.

The awards presented varied from The Best Musician for the band, to the Best Dressed Male and Female Cadet, Best attendance (statistically), the Mayor’s Oar for Boating awarded to the cadet that is the Highest achiever in afloat activities, The CPO (SCC) Curtis, Citizenship Award for commitment and activity in Community events attended by the unit.

The Grand Finale of the Awards in any year is the awards that are voted for by the Unit Staff, being the Best Junior Sae Cadet of the Year and the Best Sea Cadet of the Year. Then the cadets vote for the Cadet’s Cadet of the Year.

An evening of great celebration of achievement by the cadets of Southampton and we will be back in 2017 to celebrate the achievements to come from this year.

Once again this year the Unit supported one of our favorite charity events.

The Seafarers UK Royal Marines Christmas Band Concert at the O2 Guildhall in Southampton, our cadets support the charity selling programmes and raffle tickets and the band play warm up and in the interval for the Royal Marines.

As previously reported the Unit had one Junior Sea Cadet in the Wessex District team that went forward to the Southern Area Competition, held at HMS Temeraire in Portsmouth, the traditional home of the Royal Navy Physical Training Branch.

The results are in and the Wessex District Junior Sea Cadet Boys Team won their class with our very own Junior Sea Cadet First Class T. winning two Gold Medals and two Silver Medals, very well done.