(28.12.05)
International Sea Cadet Exchange Visits...
The 2006 International Sea Cadet exchange visits have been announced.The Sea Cadets are looking for high calibre and oustanding sea cadets, marine cadets and PPO's between the ages of 15.5 and 18 years old to represent the sea cadet corps at various international summer camps around the world. The following exchanges are available.All prices quoted are a guide and subject to flight availability.

Perth Australlia (15-19th Apr 06) (£550-650); Hamilton
Bermuda (2nd Week Jul 06) (£550-£650)
British Columbia, Canada (22nd Jul-12th August 06) (£550-£650)
Stanley, Hong Kong (13-21st Aug 06) Hong Kong Sea school (£500-£600)
Amsterdam, Netherlands (14-29 July 06) (£200-£250)
Novgorod, Russia (21st Jul-1st Aug 06) 10 days sailing aboard TS Novgorod (£500-£550)
Singapore (3rd week May 06) (£500-£600)
Seoul, Bucheon & Tongyeoung, South Korea (Last Week Jul - 1st Week Aug 06) (£500-600)
Various, Sweden (3rd-19th Jul 06) Summer camp & sightseeing (£150-£200)
Boston, USA (Last Week Jul-1st Week Aug 06) (£550-650)

All prices quoted are a guide and subject to flight availability.

If you think that you can be a good ambassador for the United Kingdom Sea Cadet Corps and want to experience the training and culture of Sea Cadet organisations worldwide, please contact the training officer with your 3 preferred choices,by 1st Feb 2006.
***Cadets who are interested in the exchange to Australia should discuss their application by Monday 15th January 06***. With the exception of Australia, selections and placements will take place during March 2006 when you will be notified in writing of the outcome.

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(23.12.05)
Cadets finish the December's fund raising in style...
The final bag packing day was completed today so thanks to all those cadets and staff who have ensured that December was a positive month for fund raising.

You will be glad to know that we raised £559 at Asda tonight which brings our December fund raising total to a whopping £7,648.

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(13.12.05)
Cadets get new Delta rescue boat for waterbourne safety...
After many months without a boat and having to loan boats from other people the unit has finally purchased is own Delta 5.5 rib. The boat which will be ideal of sea training as well as inland lakes and resovoirs has all the right kit for a rescue boat, VHF Radio, GPS for Naviation, Plotter, Depth Sounder and a couple of good engines.

Unfortunatley we were unsuccessful in getting a grant for a brand new boat, but this one certainly will do the job and give us what we need forthe new boating season.

Pictures of the boat can be found in the photo gallery

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(12.12.05)
Cadets advance to ordindary cadet and cadet...
Congratulations go to Cadet Erin Moura who did very well in their recent advancement test. Erin managed to get all but one question right so was very close to 100%. Erin is advanced to Ordinary Cadet and Domonic Traynor who has also worked hard over the last couple of months advances from New Entry to join the Marine Detachment as a recruit. Well done to both of you.

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(11.12.05)
Cadets collect record funds in one weekend...
What a fanstatic job by the cadets and staff at the unit this weekend. BZ

Having been invited to Asda in Ashton on Saturday and Sainsburys in Denton on Sunday the cadets and staff turned out in force to pack the locals shopping. Everybody worked really hard and collected £1048 on each of the days at the stores and then ventured out on Saturday night for a pub crawl and managed to come back with £715, thats a grand weekend total of £2811.

Well done and thank you to everybody who collected on behalf of the unit this weekend everybody did a great job.

Also a big thank you to both Asda and Sainsburys for allowing us to fund raise in their stores. In addition to this Asda have invited us back for a couple of evenings before christmas to allow us to add to our total fund raising efforts for December. The dates will be published shortly.

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(07.12.05)
Cadets advance from Ordinary to Able Cadet...
Congratulations goes to Ordinary Cadets Charlottel Saycell and Connor Lobb, who for the last few months have been working hard to ensure they know their task book back to front. Charlotte who did really well scoring the highest marks at 93.5% on the test, last night commented 'I have been keen to advance for the last month or so'. Both Cadets knew their stuff and deserved to be advanced and will now have to act as more senior cadets in the unit.

Dont forget if you want cadet images for christmas dont delay click here
**We have for sale 6x4 prints at the unit and are offering these for £1, buy one photo for a pound and get another for free.**


Window Ladder Team Picture featured in December Navy News...
In this months Navy News there is a special Trafalgar 200 pull out feature which documents the Battle of Trafalagar and all of the years special celebrations such as IFOS, T200 etc and has plenty of pictures the events of the past year.

Taking pride of place in the centre pages of this feature is a picture of and reference to the Tameside Sea Cadets display team who went to London for the end show for Trafalgar 200.

If you want to keep hold of a piece of history and view the Trafalgar - The Immortal Memory pull out go along to the careers office or go online to the Navy News or try in WHSmiths who generally stock a few copies..

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(03.12.05)
Cadets continue the trend with excellent turn out to raise money...
Lots of cadets turned out to help raise funds at Morrisons in Hyde last night, Unfortunatley we didnt have a full weekend, but we did have keen volunteers and about 3 hours to spare. Overall the cadets and staff managed to do themselves proud and raise just over £425.

BZ (Well done) to everybody who turned out the continous efforts and the staff team is much appreciated by the unit. Also a big thanks goes to Morrisons and its staff for enabling us to take this opportunity to raise funds.

On another note - all of you who dont subscribe to the units news and updates, we will be doing a draw of all email addresses registered on our system by the Christmas party and the lucky cadet will receive a £15 voucher. So whats to lose, have a chance at winning and find out about the latest news, training, courses and whats going on at the unit straight to your inbox.

Dont forget if you want cadet images for christmas dont delay click here

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(01.12.05)
Awards for All help keeps Cadets afloat...
Following our grant success last year in raising £13,000 to extend the galley and fit it out with a state of the art kitchen, we applied again this year for a further £5,000 to extend and update our sailing fleet.

This year we have got rid of our bosuns, updated our fleet with a couple of Pico's and a Laser Vago, we intend to obtain another two Picos through various means in order to bring our fleet up to four.

We still have toppers but we are hopping to sell them and get newer boats along with a rescue boat very soon.

So a big thank you to all those involved in claiming this grant, the £5,000 will be put to very good use.