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18/01/2013

Sea Cadets are at the London Boat show all this week. And on Friday cadets are on hand to help with the Olympic Gold Medalists racing on STAR class yachts, taking place dockside at Excel. Cadets are manning the safety boats and helping with the judging as 15 Olympians including Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson and Pippa Wilson compete in three special races.

Racing starts on Friday and continues till Sunday with three races taking place each day between 11am and 2pm. Winning presentations will be made by First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope with BBC’s Nick Knowles on Sunday at 230pm in the main hall and including London Navy Board Cadet Jessica Burton telling the audience what Sea Cadets means to her.

Visitors to the boat show at London’s Excel Centre can also see one of the original Trinity 500 craft which took part in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant last year, when 55 Trinity 500’s manned by 200 Sea Cadets led HM The Queen’s Royal Barge up the Thames. Visit us at stand C145 where we are generously being supported by our charity partner Fine Art Sails!

07/01/2013

ITV’s flagship daytime show This Morning  launches 'You Can Be Heroes Week' from Monday 7 January with the help of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and featuring the Sea Cadets alongside other Youth United organisations.

Kicking off the week is a special interview with The Prince of Wales at Clarence House, followed on Tuesday by footage of Sea Cadets at a Youth United event at Safeside in Birmingham. You can follow This Morning's updates here #TMHeroes

This week long feature aims to encourage people to volunteer, its a great chance to be inspired and get involved with a great charity. If you want to find out more about volunteering with us take a look at our special volunteer page here, or email us at: volunteer@ms-sc.org we'd love to  hear from you!

Jan 2013
Sea Cadets are proud to announce two of our volunteers were named in HRH The Queen's New Years Honours List. Lt Cdr (SCC) Terry Gillard RNR was awarded an MBE and CPO (SCC) David Moody was awarded the BEM.

Congratulations!

Jan 2013

Sea Cadets are thrilled to announce they have received the coveted Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Volunteering Award 2012.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee, 60 recipients were announced today through a joint Buckingham Palace and Cabinet Office Press Notice. Our nomination was endorsed by The First Sea Lord, highlighting the amazing support we enjoy from the Royal Navy.

This award is recognition of the great work that Sea Cadets and our volunteers do, and we are immensely proud and honoured to be recognised in this way.

Captain Sea Cadets, Captain Mark Windsor, RN said, “This award is the icing on the cake for what has been an incredible year for the Sea Cadets, culminating in our 55 boat diamond formation of boats carrying the commonwealth flags in our Patron HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Thames River Pageant in June.”

Former Second Sea Lord now Trustee Sir Alan Massey KCB CBE said “I'm absolutely thrilled for all those who have made this happen through their tireless efforts!”

President MSSC Admiral Sir Peter Abbott GBE KCB said” This is wonderful news and so well deserved, a grand way to end a grand year. Many congratulations to you all.”

There will be a chance to visit Buckingham Palace in late Spring 2013 to collect the award formally.

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