Rugby Marine Cadets

As Easter approached and most young people were looking forward to Easter eggs galore, the Royal Marine Cadets across South West Area were preparing themselves and their equipment for three days of military training in the vast area of the Brecon Bekons, South Wales.

Basic Field Skills to be self-sufficient, Camouflage and Concealment to hide, and Map Reading to know where you’re going were the order of the day throughout most of the exercise. Whilst the last day was more of an education, with the marine cadets participating in Close Quarter Battle Drills (CQB), learning the skills of Room Clearance and seeing how to fortify a house if needed for protection.

The Exercise was supported by adult volunteers from all over the South West Area as well as a small group of Royal Marines.

Rugby Royal Marine Cadets sent a number of cadets along with a member of staff.

Below are a number of quotes following their cold but enjoyable weekend away.

‘I was put into troop 3 (recruit Troop) I made friends as soon as we got put into the troop.’

‘You get taught how far light and sound can travel we were lucky that there was a small squad from troop 2 watching us’

‘Although it was a freezing everyone had fun and learned some new skills’

‘It was nice to see the young cadets working alongside the Royal Marines and the level of respect shown was unmistakable’ Sgt (SCC) S.Scholes

Her Majesty The Queen has graciously agreed to the use of the prefix ‘Royal’ for Marine Cadets of the Sea Cadet Corps and they are to be known as “Royal Marines Cadets” with immediate effect.

This is a great honour and Rugby is lucky to have a Royal Marine Cadet detachment based within Rugby Sea Cadets.

The announcement was made at the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, Captain General of The Royal Marines.
Rugby Royal Marine Cadets is open to girls and boys aged 13 years plus and is Recruiting Now!

Our aim is to provide opportunities for young people to develop into responsible, reliable and useful members of society. We also promote the highest level of self-discipline, respect self and others and comradeship as well as the principles of leadership. We can achieve this through the system of military discipline, Royal marine ethos and adventure training. 

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The annual presentation evening for Rugby Sea Cadets will be held tonight at the Royal Naval Association Club in Rugby.  The presentation evening is a time to look back on 2009 and reward the cadets and adults with a number of trophies, certificates and prizes.  We will be joined by the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Don Williams and other guests, to include Mr Bob Bradbrook, the President of the Rugby Dunsmore Rotary Club.

The cadets are looking forward to the presentation and social evening which follows with a disco and buffet.

Two Cadets from Rugby and Two Cadets from Redditch Sea Cadet Units made up the Warwickshire District Sea Cadet Team for the Inter-Service Cadet Rifle Meeting held at Bisley in Surrey this weekend. Lance Corporal Ryan Bott and Marine Cadet 2nd Class Ted Spiby represented the district with the two Redditch cadets, gaining 7th place out of 18 Sea Cadet Team. This is the highest position the Warwickshire District Team has gained in the Watts Bowl Competition, shot at 600 metres. The competition saw 125 cadet teams take part from the Sea Cadets, Army Cadet Force and Air Training Corps, with teams from Canda also competing. Sergeant (SCC) Alison Scholes coached the Warwickshire Team during the 6 month selection process, which picked four, 4 person teams from the South West Area of the Sea Cadets.

After 7 successful years at the helm as Commanding Officer, Captain (SCC) David Scholes RMR steps down and Sub Lieutenant (SCC) Stuart Glover RNR takes the position of Officer in Charge. All of the cadets and adults would like to thank Captain Scholes for his tireless efforts in making Rugby Sea Cadets a successful Sea Cadet Unit. Captain Scholes will remain at Rugby Unit and will assume the position of Boats Officer, responsible for the management of waterborne training activities.

SPORTING clubs from Coventry, Nuneaton and Rugby netted £1,000 each thanks to Betfair’s £5,000 Big Cash Giveaway. In partnership with the Coventry Telegraph, Betfair’s Cash 4 Clubs promotion provides a vital boost to sports clubs. The five that have been rewarded for their commitment to supporting grassroots sports and encouraging the local community to take up sport are: Rugby Sea Cadets, Old Coventrians RFC, Wune Tang Martial Arts Academy, Whitnash Tennis Club and Griff and Coton Netball Club. The competition ran during November and December when Telegraph readers were asked to collect tokens from the newspaper and complete an application form stating why their club deserved the money.

Betfair’s corporate social responsibility executive, Georgie Corbett, said: “I offer the winning clubs my congratulations – they thoroughly deserve the money and I’m looking forward to seeing how they will be using the funds to help develop their club and local community.” She added: “Two entries that just missed out on winning the £1,000 award but deserve special recognition were Roger Casement’s GAA Club and Coventry Godiva Athletics Club.

Both had a very real need and we wish them every success in finding the money they need to make their plans happen.” So far 30 clubs have benefited from the Cash 4 Clubs scheme and £30,000 has been given away.

The five local winners will use their money as follows: Rugby Sea Cadets to cover sailing fees this year and allow them to redirect funds to replacing protective equipment and increasing boat maintenance; Old Coventrians RFC to provide their coaches with new kit; Rugby’s Wune Tang Academy to buy new training mats; Whitnash Tennis Club to buy new tennis nets and balls; Griff and Coton Netball Club in Nuneaton to send coaches on national level 1 and 2 coaching qualification courses.

Liz Hancock, of Griff & Coton Netball Club, said: “We are thrilled to be awarded £1,000 through the Coventry Telegraph/Betfair Clubs for Cash competition. We are a Nuneaton-based group that is keen to develop further our coaching for both the junior and senior squads. “This money will really make a difference by enabling us to pay for club members to attend UKCC Coaching Courses and for us to buy some specialised netball coaching equipment. Griff is a friendly club and is always on the look-out for more adult and junior players.” Meanwhile Zak Woon, head of the Wune Tang Academy, said: “In the current financial climate it is tremendous to get £1,000 to spend on equipment. We have bought a new competition jigsaw mat because our members trained previously on the hard floor. “In October we go to the Tang Soo Do World Championships in Poland and hopefully our competitors will benefit from practising on the mat and bring back some medals.” Clubs who were unsuccessful or did not enter can raise funds they need through Betfair’s Refer and Earn scheme, details of which can be found at www.cash-4-clubs.com.

Cash4Clubs Presentation

IN THE MONEY… From left, John Over (Old Coventrians RFC), Zac Woon (Wune Tang Academy), John Lapworth (Old Coventrians RFC), Claire Woon (Wune Tang Academy), Georgie Corbett (Betfair), Liz Hancock (Griff and Coton Netball Club), Alison Scholes (Rugby Sea Cadets), Jamie Turner (Coventry Telegraph), Graham Goodman (Whitnash Tennis Club)

Wording by Derek Brown, Coventry Evening Telegraph

For the first time, not one but two cadets from Rugby Sea Cadets, have been awarded the Reg Day Memorial Trophies for attaining the highest overall marks on a District Leading Cadet and Petty Officer Cadet Advancement Board.

The District Advancement Boards test the cadets ability in a number of disciplines to include, drill and ceremonial, leadership, instructional methods, fire safety and self discipline.

The two trophies, one for the highest mark attained on a District Leading Cadet Board and the other for the highest mark attained on a District Petty Officer Cadet Board were first awarded in 1996 by the widow of Reg Day, a former Chief Petty Officer in the Sea Cadets.

It is a great honour to have won both trophies in the same year, which were presented by the District Officer, Lieutenant Commander (SCC) G. Truelove RNR at the Warwickshire District Drill Competition, held on Sunday 8th February 2009.

The recipients of these trophies pictured below are Leading Cadet Aaron Snowdon and Petty Officer Cadet,  (now Probationary Petty Officer) Alice Spiby receiving their trophies from the Commanding Officer, Captain (SCC) David Scholes RMR.

As if 2008 hasn’t been busy enough, we decided to squeeze in one last training weekend at Rugby Sea Cadet Unit this weekend.  The aim of the weekend was to assess a number of cadets that have been trained over the past few weeks in a variety of specialisations.  3rd Class Seamanship, 3rd Class Chartwork, 3rd Class Marine Engineering and the Basic Piping Proficiency were all on offer.

A number of cadets passed their specialisation assessments this weekend and two cadets, Ordinary Cadet’s Danielle Parker and Richard Suddens, were both successful in passing their Able Cadet Assessments and will be promoted.

Sub Lieutenant (SCC) Stuart Glover RNR organised the weekend and a number of the adult instructors gave up their weekend to assist.

The cadets and staff of Rugby Sea Cadets this weekend presented Birmingham Children’s Hospital with over £100 of gifts for sick children. The cadets, aged from 12 to 18 live in tand around the Rugby area decided to donate the gifts as part of their community projects. The cadets wrote to local businesses asking for donations to purchase the gifts. The gifts were presented to Malcolm Faulkner the Community Fundraising Manager for Birmingham Children’s Hospital and he said that the presents will be given to the children who are too sick to go home over Christmas and will be given to Santa Clause when he visits the sick children on Christmas Day.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital provides specialist child and adolescent care for children within the UK and Ireland and is internationally recognised in specialist areas including liver transplantation, cardiac surgery and neonatal surgery. Special thanks must go to the local businesses who donated gifts, these were; Joto, Boots, The Range in Coventry and Deichmann shoes who donated all the gift boxes.

The project was Co-ordinated by Leading Cadet Amy Suddens and overseen by Sub Lieutenant (SCC) Stuart Glover RNR and Sergeant (SCC) Sian Scholes, two of the unit’s senior members of staff.