Llanelli

Presentation Evening a great success!

The Llanelli Sea Cadets Annual presentation evening was a great success on the 27th January 2012.

The unit would like to thank the cadets, parents and all supporters for making the night such a success.

Well done all and keep it up for the next year!

70 years of TS Echo begins well

The Llanelli Sea Cadets have been given fantastic support for their 70th year as a charity in Llanelli.

Supporting 70 years of the Llanelli Sea Cadets, Gravells of Kidwelly and Cor Meibion have offered to host and perform our inaugral ceremony.

The event will take place at the Subaru Showroom in Llanelli on the Saturday 18th February 2012 at 7.00pm.

Proceeds will go in aid of T.S.Echo.

Tickets are available at any Gravells showroom or from a Cor Meibion Chorist and are £10 each.

Change of Parade Nights

Dear all

Please  note that we have now changed our parade nights from Friday evenings to Thursday Evenings.

The following times and days apply from today 03 Nov 2011. (All parents/guardians have had the opportunity to vote on this.)

Tuesday and Thursday Evening

18:00 - 20:30 (Doors open 15 minutes before and after)

Regards

PO L Jenkins

OIC Llanelli

26th September - Help us get a £6000 grant!

Support a local charity! Visit this page to click and vote for the Llanelli and District Sea Cadets - T.S.Echo to give them a chance to win up to £6000!
http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/106 - Voting opens 26th!

Swimming Competition

The Llanelli Sea Cadets entered the District Swimming Competition, which was held at Llanelli Leisure Centre on the 11th Sept 2011.

Overall out of the 9 teams we came fourth, and now, two cadets have been put forward to represent West Wales at the Area Competition, which will see districts from all over the South West Area compete at HMS Raleigh.

Massive congratulations to OCs TG and ET for doing very well in the competition and in their races!

Good luck, do us proud!

14-09-11 - Ferryside Inshore Rescue Visit

The Llanelli Sea Cadets visited the Ferryside Inshore Rescue Boat, which is a division of the St John's Ambulance, on Wednesday 14 Sept 2011.

The cadets learned about the RIB that Ferryside Inshore Rescue currently use, and how it can be used in emergency situations and the roughest of weather to aid seafarers around our coast.

This is not the first time that Llanelli have met the Lifeboat crew, as in 2009 we invited the Ferryside crew down to receive a cheque from the proceeds made at our duck race.

We have also shared the water with them at the Carmarthen River Festival on a number of occassions. They are a fantastic team and work very hard, much praise to them.

If you want to learn more about the lifeboat, visit http://www.ferryside-lifeboat.co.uk/

12/09/11 - Sher Khans Fundraiser

A Fundraiser at the Sher Khans Indian Restaurant raised an amazing £165 tonight Monday 12th Sept.

36 supporters attended the night, eating great food and enjoying great company to raise the funds.

Thank you all for your help and thank you SherKhans.

http://www.sherkhans.co.uk/

12/09/11 - Free Skip!

The Llanelli Sea Cadets were kindly donated a free hire of a skip this month.

This will help us work to clear the back yard, full of rubbish and overgrown at present.

Thank you to Skip Solutions!

Asda Fundraising bags £530.40

The Llanelli Sea Cadets recently went to Asda Llanelli packing bags.

15 cadets and 3 staff members worked hard all day and made an amazing £530.40.

This almost covered the £600 a month that we need to raise!

Well done all, and thank you Asda.

Sea Cadets - 70th Year anniversary 2012.

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Sea-Cadets-landmark-plans/story-13191645-detail/story.html

Sea Cadets' landmark plans

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

14-08-11 - Sea Cadets help raise £3000 for the Joshua Foundation

The Llanelli Sea Cadets helped a group of swimmers raise £3000 for children with terminal Cancer.

The 29 sponsored swimmers took a challenging swim from Burry Port to Llanelli on Sunday 14th

August 2011.

The Sea Cadets had two safety crews out on RIBs and also two Kayakers in the water as safety.

See the full story here on the Llanelli Stars website

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Swimmers-dive-charity-effort/story-13147346-detail/story.html

 Picture courtesy of Llanelli Star

07 August 2011 - Llanelli Star

See attached news article from the Llanelli Star.

This covers the donation made by the Royal Naval Association

recently for the berths on board T.S.Royalist.

21/07/11 - Sea Cadet Duck Race

The Llanelli Duck Race, hosted by the Llanelli Sea Cadets is about to be launched again.

For the last two years the cadets, and staff and supporters have been going quackers and organising a large duck race.

Over £4000 has been raised to date.

Early Birds...excuse the pun, can purchase duck race tickets already....ONLINE! by clicking https://www.charitygiving.co.uk/event/register.asp?e=3043

This year the duck race prices are just £1 as we have halved the entry cost!

To keep up to date on all this, please visit www.seacadetduckrace.co.uk

Full details including confirmed dates and prizes are to be released imminently.

19/07/11 - Visit to Mayors Parlour

The Cadets were kindly invited to the Mayors Parlour at Llanelli on Tuesday the 19th July 2011.

The Town Mayor, Councillor Mrs. Linda Stedman invited the unit along to show the unit the Mayors Parlour and as a show of appreciation for the work that the cadets do.

Many of the Cadets met the Mayor on the Re-Dedication of the affiliated Boat HMS Trenchant at HMS DRAKE. Councillor Mrs. Linda Stedman spoke to the cadets about the trip and also about the various activities that the cadets do, before showing them around the Parlour.

What a fantastic evening, many thanks.

18-19 July 2011 - Swansea Special Games -

The Llanelli Sea Cadets helped out on the Special Games at Swansea as they have

done for years.

The cadets act the timekeepers and game marshalls at the events.

The event is for children and adults with special needs throughout the area and they

take part in events in the Field, Track and running categories.

Llanelli RNA donate funds for Royalist Adventure!

The Llanelli Branch of the Royal Naval Association have pledged to donate

£520 to the Llanelli Sea Cadets to fund two Berths on board T.S. Royalist.

Almost every week of the year, 24 Sea Cadets, Combined Cadet Force (Navy)

and a single week of Air Cadets from all over the UK join the ship and spend

the whole week on board working as part of the team. Many different parts of

the UK are visited, sailing from her home berth in Gosport to Southampton,

Poole and the Isle of Wight.

There are 6 permanent members of crew who instruct the embarked cadets on

a weekly basis, and also carry out the maintenance/winter refit. These are the

 Captain, the Sailing Master, the Engineer, the Boatswain (Bosun), the Coxswain

and the Cook.

Two lucky Llanelli Sea Cadets will be chosen to go onboard Royalist in August.

16/07/11 - Trostre

Thank you to all the cadets who helped out on the Trostre

Recruiting and Fundraising stall where we raised near £300!

Fantastic effort!

In a matter of 6 days we have reached our monthly target!

Fundraiser: Sher Khans Curry Night

Thank you all for attending the evening, 59

people attended the meal raising a whopping

£318.20. That is over half of this months running

cost in just one evening.

Well done all and thank you once more for your help.

11 Jul 2011

Carmarthen River Festival 2011

The Llanelli Sea Cadets attended the Carmarthen River Festival

 over the weekend of the 9th and 10th July 2011.

The Cadets provided essential safety boat cover on the fast flowing

river to ensure that spectators, visitors and users of the river were

safe and to control the restrictions placed on the river for the weekend.

The Cadets had the opportunity to meet members of Ferryside Inshore

Rescue who invited them to their centre in the future....

We look forward to taken them up on that offer very soon!

Rowing Weekend Success!

The Llanelli Sea Cadets had a rowing weekend over the 2nd

and 3rd July.

The cadets took part in a variety of water activities, Rowing,

Sailing, Powerboating and even Kayaking thanks to help from

PO Thomas and S/Lt Elliott for assisting.

The cadets gained a variety of qualifications and all had a fantastic

weekend, helped by amazing weather.

Cadets take on Kayaking competition

Four Llanelli Sea Cadets travelled with their OIC to

Fishguard on Sunday 26th June.

They entered the Kayaking competition for the first

in well over 10 years of Llanelli history.

Whilst the unit did not come away victors, they tried

hard and learned a lot, ready for next year.

Well done all.

Visit to Unit - Nia Griffith MP

Llanelli MP Nia Griffith visited the Llanelli Sea Cadets

on the 17^th June 2011.

The units First Lieutenant Lt (SCC) Peter Killick RNR

showed the MP around the unit, showing what activities

 we do, and to meet the cadets and staff at the unit.

Nia Griffith MP also presented the cadets with presentations

of various awards and also the units hard earned Pennant.

Facebook Page Launched!

You can now connect with the Llanelli Sea Cadets via our Facebook Page!

Visit www.Facebook.com/LlanelliSeaCadets and click on LIKE!

Rowing Competition Cancelled - 12-06-11

The West Wales District Rowing Competition was cancelled on Sunday

12th June.

The Port Talbot unit was filled with hundreds of eager cadets,

preparing to compete and show off their skills on the water.

Unforunately the water was extremely rough, and the wind

and rain as relentless.

The competition was called off, for safety reasons, the first time in living

memory.

The competition is expected to be held on Saturday 18th June now.

Text Donate!

Donations

If you would like to donate, the easiest way is by using your mobile phone.

 Simply send a text message to 70070 including our code

– LLAN00 – and a monetary amount:

 To: 70070
LLAN00 £2

You can donate £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10. After you’ve sent the text,

you’ll receive a confirmation text back containing details on how to

add Gift Aid, meaning T.S.Echo could benefit from an extra 25%.

This service is free for Llanelli Sea Cadets, and anyone on any mobile

 network can use it to donate to the band. Your donation will be deducted

 from your mobile phone credit, or added to your monthly phone bill. 

You won’t be charged for the text message either.

Lady Hunt Inspects the Division!

Recently the Llanelli Sea Cadets travelled to HMS Drake to take part in

the Re-Dedication ceremony for HMS Trenchant.

You can see the pictures here of the inspection, as Lady Hunt inspected

the parades divisions, which included the Llanelli Sea Cadets Squad.

What an honour!

The Llanelli Sea Cadets enjoyed their time and now move onto their

next event, which will be the Rowing Race next Sunday (12th July)

Safety Cover - Raft Race

The Llanelli Sea Cadets have been asked to provide

safety boat cover on Sunday the 5th June 2011 at

the Llanelli Raft Race. The Raft Race is being organised

by the Llanelli Branch of the Round Table.

Last year saw three rafts racing along, whereas this

year the Round Table estimate around 12 rafts will compete.

The Llanelli Sea Cadets entered a Raft in last years competition

and came 2nd out of the three teams.

This year they will provide safety boat and first aid cover and

after the race they will partake in training for the Rowing Competition.

Re-Dedication ceremony of HMS Trenchant

The Llanelli Sea Cadets have been invited to attend

divisions for the Re-Dedication of HMS Trenchant.

HMS Trenchant is the affiliated boat for Llanelli Unit

and has recently been to visit the unit and attended

 the Remembrance Day Parades.

HMS Trenchant has been undergoing a re fit at HMS 

Drake and will undergo its Re-Dedication Ceremony

on Friday 3rd June.

It is an absolute honour for Cadets to be invited along

to parad

Asda Bag Packing Raises Funds!

The unit would like to thank ASDA Llanelli for allowing us to hold a Bag

Packing Fundraiser on Saturday 14th of May.

The Cadets who attended worked hard and raised just over £318.

Well done all and thank you

Unit Management Committee

Camp Cancelled 4-6th June 2011

The Unit Camp that was scheduled for the weekend

 4th-6th June has been cancelled.

PO L Jenkins took the decision to cancell the camp. 

The camp has been rescheduled for a date in August.

Use the Calander feature on this site to find out what is coming up.

AGM 1/6/11

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place

at 19:00 on the 1st June 2011.

All family, friends, supporters and current members

are invited to attend.

The current Unit Management Committee will stand

down and elections will take place.

Following the AGM the Parents and supporters meeting

will also take place.

POSTPONED!! Annual General Meeting

AGM postponed! The AGM will be postponed. Further details to follow

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!