Bollington & Macclesfield

WEB PAGES and FACEBOOK.

Due to limited developement of the Sea Cadet web pages, this site will now be treated as a 'static resource' and will show the basic details relating to the Sea Cadet Corps and this unit.

All our online and dynamic postings will now be done through our new Facebook page, which can be found at .....

www.facebook.com/bollingtonmacclesfieldscc

Please log on and become a 'friend' and see what the cadets (and staff!) get up to. Follow us through another year of exciting and dynamic activities and events and if you like what you see, come along and join us!

At present, the Facebook link on the home page, takes you to the national Facebook page. Very shortly, this will link to our unit Facebook page, detailed above.

"2012 - A New Year; A new opportunity ..."

Well, he we are in 2012.

Lots of challenges; lots of opportunities; and loads of adventure !!!

See the new Facebook page this year and follow all our exploits, as they happen, in glorious techni-colour.

To all of our parents and friends out there, the Staff, Cadets and Committee welcome you and may the the New Year bring us peace, health and friendship and all we'd wish for ourselves.

DISTRICT 5-a-SIDE COMPETITION

Bollington & Macclesfield unit entered two teams in this years District 5-a-side football competition, held at the Avondale Leisure Centre, Edgeley, Stockport. Despite only having four team members, the Juniors team fought hard and won this years trophy, here being presented by their CO, Lt. (SCC) David Thickett RNR.

The senior team (under 15's) also fought valiantly, but were narrowly defeated on the last game to take an extremely creditable second place overall. However, next year .........

REMEMBRANCE DAY PARADE

This year, Bollington & Macclesfield unit joined the Royal British Legion, local civic leaders, Army and Air Cadet service groups and other youth groups to commemorate Remembrance Sunday, when the fallen and wounded from two World Wars and a multitude of conflicts since are remembered. The parade marched from Macclesfield Town Hall to the War Memorial on Park Green, where two minutes silence was observed, before the laying of wreaths, followed by a short service. The parade then formed up again and marched back to the Town Hall, where the salute was taken by the Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire.

MANCHESTER TRAFALGAR PARADE

Bollington and Macclesfield Unit, together with her sister units from Manchester District, paraded through Manchester to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar and the untimely death of Admiral Lord Nelson. A Guard of Honour was provided for the inspecting officer, The Lord Lieutenant of Manchester.

GUARD FOR 2nd SEA LORD

T.S. Ardent once again provided a Guard of Honour for the guest of Manchester Naval Officers Association, for their Trafalgar Dinner 2011. This year, it was the Second Sea Lord, Vice Admiral CPR Montgomery CBE ADC who inspected his guard before going in to dinner.

Annual General Meeting & Unit Awards

Our yearly AGM and Unit Awards Ceremony took place on Monday September 12.

Our District Officer, Lieutenant Commander (SCC) Jim Garner RNR officially presented the unit with our 2011 Burgee which was award to the unit after passing the annual Royal Naval Parade in June 2011.

Congratulations to the following cadets who got present with the following awards for the commitment and effort through out the year.

Royal Oak Award for Best Junior - Cadet David Kirk
Anne Bell Award for Special Deed or Achievement – Ordinary Cadet Toby Whittle
Sylvia Roberts Award for Most Improved Cadet – Able Cadet Callum Hilton
Jack Collins Award for Training (Practical) – Ordinary Cadet Henry Paisey
Russell Cutler for Training (Theory) – Petty Officer Cadet Keri Slade
Captain Franklin Award for Smartest Cadet - Able Cadet Edward Cox
CO’s Special Award - Ordinary Cadet Jake Hilton

2011 BURGEE

Well, we've done it again!!!

Bollington has achieved it's 4th consecutive Burgee award - the top award in the Annual Royal Naval Inspection cycle. It takes a lot of very hard work and dedication on the part of the Staff, Committee and Cadets to achieve this level. 2011 is particularly special in that we significantly improved our 'score' over previous years, showing 'continuous improvement'. The only trouble is, we now have to maintain that momentum!

My sincere congratulations to everyone at the unit for achiving this years 'special' Burgee and thanks to all the parents for their support.

Lt. (SCC) David Thickett RNR

Commanding Officer.

New Unit website

Welcome to our new look website. It has been redesigned as part of the Sea Cadets image refresh and we hope you enjoy navigating it. Take a look and round and see what you think!

Please bear with us - it may take a little while to get all the original content  moved across, but 'normal service' will be resumed as soon as possible!