Rugby Sea Cadets

The cadets and staff of Rugby Sea Cadets this weekend presented Birmingham Children’s Hospital with over £100 of gifts for sick children. The cadets, aged from 12 to 18 live in tand around the Rugby area decided to donate the gifts as part of their community projects. The cadets wrote to local businesses asking for donations to purchase the gifts. The gifts were presented to Malcolm Faulkner the Community Fundraising Manager for Birmingham Children’s Hospital and he said that the presents will be given to the children who are too sick to go home over Christmas and will be given to Santa Clause when he visits the sick children on Christmas Day.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital provides specialist child and adolescent care for children within the UK and Ireland and is internationally recognised in specialist areas including liver transplantation, cardiac surgery and neonatal surgery. Special thanks must go to the local businesses who donated gifts, these were; Joto, Boots, The Range in Coventry and Deichmann shoes who donated all the gift boxes.

The project was Co-ordinated by Leading Cadet Amy Suddens and overseen by Sub Lieutenant (SCC) Stuart Glover RNR and Sergeant (SCC) Sian Scholes, two of the unit’s senior members of staff.

A number of the cadets and adult instructors from Rugby Sea Cadet Unit took time to talk with and play games with residents of the Rugby Care Centre on Clifton Road tonight. Sub Lieutenant (SCC) Stuart Glover RNR, the Unit’s First Lieutenant, tasked the Senior Cadets in delivering a local Community project to raise awareness of the Sea Cadet Unit in Rugby and the cadets chose the Care Centre.

Guided by Sub Lieutenant Glover, the cadets, planned and carried out the activity themselves and made contact with Manor Bakeries in Rugby, who were kind enough to donate some cakes and biscuits.

Sub Lieutenant Glover said ” It’s important for the cadets to get out into the community and give something back.  If we have helped the residents at the care home, have a better Christmas, then we have achieved everything that the cadets set out to do.”

The Mayor of Rugby, Councillor Bill Sewell and his wife, the Lady Mayoress of Rugby, were kind enough to host our Junior Sea Cadets this evening at the Town Hall in Evreux Way, Rugby.  Having met the Mayor on several civic occasions this year, the Juniors got to take a tour of the council chambers and ask the Mayor and Mayoress about their roles within the community, over tea and biscuits.  The Junior Sea Cadets were escorted by Chief Petty Officer (SCC) Dean Marshall, the Unit Training Officer and Petty Officer (SCC) Linda Parsons, the Junior Sea Cadet Instructor at Rugby Unit.

The evening concluded with a photo session and the Mayor giving all of the Juniors a pack to take away with information about Rugby Borough Council and some some recyclable goodies.  The Juniors were  particularly impressed with the Rugby Council Wheelie Bin Pen Pots.

Junior Sea Cadets