RUGBY SEA CADETS

Did you see us at the Clock Towers Shopping Centre today ?  If you are interesteid in joining us you can come up any Monday evening (excluding bank holidays) from 7.45pm and ask for Petty Officer (SCC) Gareth Head. You will need to bring a parent or guardian with you, we will give you a tour of our unit and answer any questions that you may have. We are located behind the Rugby Gymnastics Club, 92 Lower Hillmorton Road, Rugby, CV21 3TF.  We are looking for Junior Sea Cadets aged 10-12 years, Sea Cadets 12-18 years and Royal Marines Cadets 13-18 years.  All three sections are open to males and females and offer a wide range of activities to get involved in.  As a national uniformed youth organiation we are one of over 400 Sea Cadet units in the United Kingdom. For more information on our organisation, have a look around this site or vist the national site www.sea-cadets.org.

Rugby Sea Cadet Unit, a registered charity in England & Wales, 512477 is on the search for individuals to become charity trustees and join our Unit Management Team. Have you run a small business or lead a small team of dedicated people? Are you outgoing with plenty of common sense and have empathy with young people? We would love to hear from you! You must be 18 years or older and willing to work on a voluntary basis for a couple of hours per week. Your contribution could make a real difference in helping young people towards responsible adulthood. For more information please contact Stuart Glover, Commanding Officer of Rugby Sea Cadets by email contact@rugbyseacadets.com.

Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 30th September 2010 starting at 7.00pm.

On Monday 1st March 2010 the Junior Sea Cadets from Rugby Unit will be visiting Rugby Fire Station to learn about their role as one of the emergency services. The knowledge that the Juniors will gain will count towards one of their red modules.  More information on this event from PCI Gareth Head or TI Ana Wileman.

Cadets and Adult Instructors from the Rugby Sea Cadet Unit took part in the annual Remembrance Sunday Parade to commemorate those that gave their lives in World War 1 and World War 2.  The Parade took place today on Sunday 8th November 2009 on Hillmorton Road at the Memorial Gates. The cadets were joined by other youth organisations in Rugby to include the Army Cadet Force, Air Training Corps, Brownies, Scouts, Boys Brigade and Girls Brigade, as well as the Royal British Legion, Royal Naval Association and the crew of H.M.S. Tireless, the town’s affiliated Royal Naval Submarine.

SPORTING clubs from Coventry, Nuneaton and Rugby netted £1,000 each thanks to Betfair’s £5,000 Big Cash Giveaway. In partnership with the Coventry Telegraph, Betfair’s Cash 4 Clubs promotion provides a vital boost to sports clubs. The five that have been rewarded for their commitment to supporting grassroots sports and encouraging the local community to take up sport are: Rugby Sea Cadets, Old Coventrians RFC, Wune Tang Martial Arts Academy, Whitnash Tennis Club and Griff and Coton Netball Club. The competition ran during November and December when Telegraph readers were asked to collect tokens from the newspaper and complete an application form stating why their club deserved the money.

Betfair’s corporate social responsibility executive, Georgie Corbett, said: “I offer the winning clubs my congratulations – they thoroughly deserve the money and I’m looking forward to seeing how they will be using the funds to help develop their club and local community.” She added: “Two entries that just missed out on winning the £1,000 award but deserve special recognition were Roger Casement’s GAA Club and Coventry Godiva Athletics Club.

Both had a very real need and we wish them every success in finding the money they need to make their plans happen.” So far 30 clubs have benefited from the Cash 4 Clubs scheme and £30,000 has been given away.

The five local winners will use their money as follows: Rugby Sea Cadets to cover sailing fees this year and allow them to redirect funds to replacing protective equipment and increasing boat maintenance; Old Coventrians RFC to provide their coaches with new kit; Rugby’s Wune Tang Academy to buy new training mats; Whitnash Tennis Club to buy new tennis nets and balls; Griff and Coton Netball Club in Nuneaton to send coaches on national level 1 and 2 coaching qualification courses.

Liz Hancock, of Griff & Coton Netball Club, said: “We are thrilled to be awarded £1,000 through the Coventry Telegraph/Betfair Clubs for Cash competition. We are a Nuneaton-based group that is keen to develop further our coaching for both the junior and senior squads. “This money will really make a difference by enabling us to pay for club members to attend UKCC Coaching Courses and for us to buy some specialised netball coaching equipment. Griff is a friendly club and is always on the look-out for more adult and junior players.” Meanwhile Zak Woon, head of the Wune Tang Academy, said: “In the current financial climate it is tremendous to get £1,000 to spend on equipment. We have bought a new competition jigsaw mat because our members trained previously on the hard floor. “In October we go to the Tang Soo Do World Championships in Poland and hopefully our competitors will benefit from practising on the mat and bring back some medals.” Clubs who were unsuccessful or did not enter can raise funds they need through Betfair’s Refer and Earn scheme, details of which can be found at www.cash-4-clubs.com.

Cash4Clubs Presentation

IN THE MONEY… From left, John Over (Old Coventrians RFC), Zac Woon (Wune Tang Academy), John Lapworth (Old Coventrians RFC), Claire Woon (Wune Tang Academy), Georgie Corbett (Betfair), Liz Hancock (Griff and Coton Netball Club), Alison Scholes (Rugby Sea Cadets), Jamie Turner (Coventry Telegraph), Graham Goodman (Whitnash Tennis Club)

Wording by Derek Brown, Coventry Evening Telegraph

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

Cadets and Staff of the Rugby Sea Cadet Unit paraded though Rugby Town today for the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice of World War One. Sea Cadets and Marine Cadets from Training Ship Tireless joined other cadets from the Rugby Army Cadet Force, Rugby Air Cadet Force, Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, Girl Guides, Boys Brigade, Girls Brigade and St John Ambulance Cadets.  The cadet forces joined veterans from the Royal Naval Association, Rotary Clubs, crew members from HMS Tireless, the Royal British Legion and Rugby Councillors, including the Mayor of Rugby, Councillor Bill Sewell.  The service was held at the Memorial Gates on Hillmorton Road, in front of a large turnout form the public and was led by Reverend Mark Beach of St Andrews Church. Following hyms, a 2 minute silence at 11.00am and a march past and salute for the Mayor, the parade took route through the town centre and back to the TA Centre on Edward Street.

Rugby Sea Cadets take part in three Remembrance day parades each year, but this year we were represented at four parades; Rugby Town Centre, Bilton, Hillmorton and Lutterworth in Leicestershire.

Commemorative events took place all over the UK, with the Queen attending the Cenotaph in London.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held last night to elect existing and new members to the Unit Management Committee (UMC), that are responsible for the day to day  Health & Safety, Fundraising, Insurance, Transport and Finance of the Sea Cadet Unit.  Parents and Supporters from the Community gathered at the AGM and the following people were elected onto the committee for 2008/2009;

Mr Frank Marshall, Mr John Bott, Mr Jack Payne, Mrs Hilary Marshall, Mr Steve Love, Mrs Kim Facer, Mrs Vanessa Grundy, Mr Mick Phillips, Mr Andy Moseley and Captain (SCC) David Scholes RMR, the Commanding Officer of Rugby Sea Cadets.