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It's our first challenge event of the year!

We have nine amazing runners taking on the London Landmarks Half Marathon to raise money for Sea Cadets on Sunday 24 March.

To support these incredible runners we’re looking for enthusiastic cheerers to join us and help them all cross the finish line.

Join us for a day that celebrates the history of our capital, with dance performances, bands and history tours along the route - all while cheering on our runners!

Timings

From 8.30am - Cheerers begin arriving at the Sea Cadets meeting and cheer point on Trafalgar Square
From 9.30am - The half marathon starts! We will be cheering on the runners from our cheer point on the Square
From 11.00am - Cheerers move to the Sea Cadets photo cheer point on Whitehall to see our runners cross the finish line
Between 11.30am - 13.30pm - Runners begin finishing the half marathon and will join us at the Sea Cadets finishing point on The Mall

Meeting and Cheer Points

To celebrate London’s ‘Grand, Quirky and Hidden’ history, we’ll have our very own Sea Cadet point on Trafalgar Square commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar, where we'll meet our runners before they start and cheer them on along the route.

We will also have our Sea Cadets photo cheer point along Whitehall from 11.00am, so we’ll see our runners heading towards the finish line!

Once our runners have finished you can join us to congratulate them on completing their half marathon, at the Sea Cadets finishing point on The Mall.

Take a look at the map below to see where all our meeting and cheer points will be for the day!

Get involved here and join us whenever you can on the day. If you have any questions, please get in touch with Becky at getinvolved@ms-sc.org

Six Royal Marines Cadet (RMC) detachments competed against each other at the weekend at the Royal Marines Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon to take home the Gibraltar Cup. The weekend saw 48 RMCs complete a tough obstacle course as well as six leadership tasks that tested their navigation, teamwork and communication skills.

This year it came down to the wire, with the winning detatchment taking home the cup by 1 point! Congratulations Caterham!

Well done to Chelmsford for winning the best Team Leader Trophy and a congratulations to Sgt Liam Harrower from Caterham who was presented with the McCarrol Trophy for being the best RMC CFAV for 2018.

Every single cadet was a credit to their Detachment, Unit and Company and should feel justifiably proud of their significant achievements. Hoofing effort!

Full Results:

1st place - Caterham Detachment (331 points)
2nd place - Chelmsford Detachment (330 points)
3rd place - Queensferry Detachment (286 points)
4th place - Preston Detachment (282 points)
5th place - Sheffield Detachment (267 points)
6th place -  Redditch and Bromsgrove Detachment (260 points) 

Loud cheers, hard work and great sportsmanship were all displayed at this years national football competition.

Deputy Staff Recreation Officer Ray Mitchell said "All of the teams played to the best of their abilities with skill and good sportsmanship. It was great to see our new team of First Sea Lord's Cadets at the event as well. Overall a very successful weekend".

Teams from all over the UK gathered at the Graham Meres Leisure Centre to compete for the national championship. 

This years overall winners were Southern Area and Eastern Area jointly, but a big congratulations to all who competed. 

Click here for full results

Marine Society and Sea Cadets were well represented in the New Year’s Honours List.

MSSC Trustee John May DL (pictured) becomes an OBE for services to young people, while former trustee and current MSSC Vice-President Patrick Stewart MBE receives a CVO for his work as Lord Lieutenant of Argyll and Bute.

The recognition of Sea Cadet volunteers across the country remains one of the highlights of the Honours List.

While three cadets have become recipients of British Empire Medals (BEM), Janice Spicer was made an MBE for her fund-raising efforts to many charities in her native Hull, including Sea Cadets.

Mrs Spicer, 65 and from Hull, joined as a teenager when girls were first admitted in the late 1960s.

After coming back the following week, Janice remained for a near-continuous 50 years period. “My dad wasn’t sure. He huffed that it would be another “week-long wonder” but I knew different,” she said.

21 members of Janice’s family are now Sea Cadets and despite severe illness in her family, she remains as committed to the Sea Cadet cause as ever.

“I had good role models in a nan who brought up kids on their own and my mum’s sister who would take everyone from their street on train for a day’s holiday. If I’m as good an Aunty as our Aunty Madge. I’m doing all right. Sea Cadets in a way are my family and this is for them as much as anyone else.”

Emma Walton BEM from Grimsby has been honoured for community and voluntary service in helping her local Sea Cadets,

Since getting involved within Sea Cadets in 2015, Emma has helped recruit a new set of trustees, refurbish and sign a 99 year lease on their building near the Royal Dock, launch a major recruitment drive for both cadets and volunteers, develop partnerships with local businesses and charities as well as raise over £70,000 within four years to secure the future of Grimsby and Cleethorpes Sea Cadets.

All of this, in spite of being a mother of three which was added to by the arrival of Emma and her husband’s fourth child three years ago. She is also chair of Lincolnshire District Sea Cadets and helps to train new chairs across the East of England.

“I do it because I enjoy it. I’ve made so many friends and when my eldest daughter joined, I started helping out tidying up the unit. “I didn’t really know what I was letting myself in for, when I became Chair.”

Lieutenant Commander George Wilson, London Region HQSO as well as Chief Petty Officer Stefen Wells from Shirley also received BEMs for sterling work in their communities.