News

The Mayor of Hillingdon, Councillor John Hensley, accompanied by the Mayoress, Mrs Diane Hensley, was at TS Pelican on Monday, 6 March. where he met cadets, staff, committee members and parents before presenting badges and certificates of achievement.

The Junior Cadet of the Year award was presented to Leading Junior Cadet Ben; the Sea Cadet of the Year award went to Cadet Sam and the Royal Marine Cadet of the Year award went to MC2 Lewis . During the evening Tony Gorman, Treasurer of the Hale Lodge of Middlesex Freemasons (and also ex RN) presented a further donation to the Unit. The picture shows cadets and staff with the invited guests. 

7 Junior cadets from Ruislip Unit joined 40 other Junior Cadets from throughout Western District in a fun week-end over 4 and 5 March hosted at Rickmansworth & Watford Unit based in Croxley.

On the Saturday the cadets travelled up to London by Tube in teams to play Monopoly, visiting locations which included the London Eye, Big Ben, HMS Belfast, Tower Bridge, Marble Arch. St Paul's Cathedral and Paddington station. On the Sunday it was archery and camp-craft.

The picture shows one of the teams travelling by Tube.  

Cadets from the Unit attended the District multi-training week-end at Crowborough in East Sussex between 24 and 26 February (2017). Ruislip staff also assisted in 1st Aid and Marine Engineering instruction. Cadets were delayed arriving because of problems on the M25 so the minibus which left Ruislip soon after 6 pm didn't reach site until after 10.30 pm!

Our cadets participated in classes on meteorology, 1st Aid, communications and navigation. The picture shows the 1st Aid class in full flow under the  tuition of the COs of both Rickmansworth and Ruislip Units.

Lance-Corporal Greg Ashby from the Royal Marine Cadet detachment was awarded the prestigious Deputy Lieutenant's Certificate at a ceremony held in the Mayor's Parlour at the Civic Centre in Uxbridge by the Mayor of Hillingdon, Councillor John Hensley, and the Deputy Lieutenant for the Borough of Hillingdon, Bruce Houlder. The ceremony took place last autumn but because of the Unit flooding the news bulletin was not posted at the time.

These awards are made to cadets in recognition of exceptional service, dedication and achievement within the cadet movement, so many congratulations to L/Cpl Ashby.

Ruislip Sea Cadets 75^th anniversary year got off to a successful start when the Junior Section (Under 12s) recently won the London Area 5-a-side football competition for their age group held at the Play On Sports London indoor arena in Whitechapel.

Previously (15 January, 2017) the Junior Sea Cadet team had won the Western District (London Area) competition held at the Goals 5-a-side football centre in South Ruislip. Ruislip Senior Boys team (under 18s) who also won through to the Area competition were runners up to Bexley Sea Cadet Unit from Southern District. The picture shows the successful Junior Team with the London Area Officer, Cdr J Nisbet, VR, RNR.