CADET ENGLISH D COY

I am sure you will be interested in reading Cdt English's blog of his summer expedition along Hadrian's Wall:

http://hadrianswallexped3.blogspot.co.uk

ADULT COUNTY BADGES

The order for the adult county badge has been sent off and I am hopeful that badges will be ready in 3-4 weeks time. We have selected the badge pictured below, at a size of 50mm X 50mm, which will go on the left blanking plate 10mm below the union flag.

To cover costs for the badges, one badge will be issued free to all CFAV. Any subsequent badges will be charged at £2 each,

CADET COVENANT AND KENT CADET WEEK

I am pleased to report that the Cadet Covenant with Canterbury College was signed last night at Canterbury College and supported by Maj Elderton and Cdt CSM Cobb from A Coy. This should open the way for an exciting range of career development opportunities for our cadets and adults.

 

Could I also remind you about Kent Cadet Week, which will run from Sat 12th-Fri 18th October and will be preceded by a major advertising campaign across all the KM Group papers in Kent. You may even get a visit from KMFM to collect material for their breakfast show, to be broadcast during Cadet Week.

During Kent Cadet Week it would be good to see ALL detachments holding open evenings, or where you share sites with the ATC, joint open evenings. Please feed all details of events to the County PRO who will collate and arrange for details to be loaded onto the Kent Cadet Week website:

www.kentcadetweek.org

ANNUAL CAMP

I would like to thank everyone who has helped to make Annual Camp 2013 a success. The weather was not on our side in week one but changed completely at the weekend to help bring camp to a successful conclusion.

 

A few reminders:

 

Annual Camp 2014 will be to Wathgill in North Yorkshire, between 16th - 29th August 2014 (the last two weeks of the Summer holiday).

 

The Officers' Study weekend will take place at Shorncliffe over the weekend 12th/13th October, with a dinner night in the Garrison Officers' Mess.

 

2014 will be the centenary of the outbreak of the first World War. I know that plans are already in hand for battlefield visits to Flanders and France as well as local level projects centred on war memorials and graves.

 

Thank you again for your hard work and I look forward to seeing all again at detachments and on Coy/Sqn training throughout the year.

 

Col Wilson

KENT TO DEVON CYCLE RIDE

I am sure that you will all join me in congratulating the TSA in his successful cycle ride from Kent to Okehampton at the start of camp. He has managed to raise over £3000 which will be used to pay for over 30 cadets to take the BTEC Level 1 Certificate in Teamwork, Personal Skills and Citizenship.

 

Find out more at http://www.cvqo.org/news/browse/sergeant-major-completes-260-miles-for-cadets-to-take-qualification

KENT CADET WEEK

Kent Cadet Week will take place between Saturday 12th October and Friday 18th October 2013 and will profile the activities and opportunities available in Kent ACF, along with our sister organisations the ATC and SCC.

A logo has been produced, which Coys/Sqn and Detachments may use in all aspects of support for the week and is displayed below:

The website has now gone live at:  http://www.kentcadetweek.org/

LORD LIEUTENANT'S MERITORIOUS SERVICE CERTIFICATES

I am sure that you will all join me in congratulating Captain Shaun Spilsbury and Sergeant Major Instructor Verity Burrows on the news of the award of the Lord Lieutenant's Meritorious Service Certificate. The certificates were both well deserved and will be awarded at a ceremony in October. In the meantime please take the opportunity to congratulate them when you next see them.