2019 Award
The unit was honoured in 2019 when one of our Able Cadets was selected to represent the District as Lord Lieutenant's Cadet at formal functions throughout the year. This is her description.
"Being the Lord’s Lieutenant's Cadet was an experience that all cadets should have. I was given so many incredible opportunities and met so many amazing people such as Prince Charles and Lady Camilla. Furthermore, I had the chance to get to know people from other cadet corps and learn about them and what they do.
I also presented a poem for a Remembrance ceremony in Swansea for the Poppy appeal and attended many events throughout the year.
The best part was the Presentation dinner when I received my Lord Lieutenant's badge and I ordered garlic mushrooms and I had a soup not deep fried breaded mushrooms.
Being a Lord Lieutenant's Cadet gave me a chance to develop my personal skills such as my confidence and social skills.
Overall, being a Lord Lieutenant's cadet was one of my greatest achievements and gave me many good memories which will stay with me for a life time."
We remain very proud of her achievements.
Burgee Award
Port Talbot Sea Cadets is celebrating achieving a Burgee Award for 2019-2020.
The Burgee award is the highest award that can be awarded annually to a Sea Cadet Unit in recognition of the hard work of the Cadets, Volunteers and Unit Management Team.
This is a momentous achievement for Port Talbot Sea Cadets in what has been a very challenging year - it is testament to the hard work of all involved at TS Resource.
Three Members of Port Talbot Sea Cadets staff were recognised for their outstanding service and devotion to duty and awarded the Lord-Lieutenant’s Certificate of Merit by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of West Glamorgan, Mrs Louise Fleet JP.
These were: CPO (SCC) Rhodri Thomas, CPO (SCC) Stephen Summerfield and Mrs Susan Summerfield.
Congratulations from all at Port Talbot Sea Cadets!
The RFCA press release can be found HERE
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Excellent efforts from West Wales District Sailing Team 2017
Three Port Talbot Cadets travelled to Portsmouth to compete in the Area Competition as members of the West Wales District Team.
The results are as follows:
Topper Class 1 - Neath, 2 - Tenby
Pico Class 1 - Fishguard, 7 - Neath
Bosun Class 4 - Port Talbot (Helm Nathan Evans, Crew Brynley Thomas)
Quest Class 1 - Fishguard
PY Class 2 - Swansea, 6 - Port Talbot (Kayla Whatley)
PY = Portsmouth Yardstick Scheme which allows boats of different classes to compete against each other fairly, under RYA regulations and handicaps.
We are proud of them all.
One of our Unit Assistants, Mrs Ring had promised to cut her long hair to make a wig for chemotherapy patients. She decided to use the opportunity to raise funds and share the money raised between the Sue Ryder Hospice which cared for a friend last year and our Sea Cadet Unit.
Donations are always welcome, thanks to those who have already supported us.
Further information can be seen by clicking the Local Giving link here:
There are still plenty of days left on this fundraiser, despite the link saying 0!
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CI Mark Evans, one of our Sailing Instructors spent last summer in training. He completed two half marathons to raise funds for an RS Quest.
He was lucky to gain extra sponsorship from Stephen Booth of St James's Trust, pictured here at the Annual Presentation Evening giving the Cadets with a cheque for £2000.
We are glad to announce that the RS quest has now been delivered and will be named in honour of Marks' late father Norman Evans, affectionately known as "Farmer"
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