Ten things you might not know about

The Sea Cadets

1. Delivers key youth policy i.e. diversion from crime, community development, social inclusion and Agenda 21.
   
   
2. Provides additional learning opportunities and qualifications for 10 – 18 year old girls and boys.
   
   
3. Sponsored by the Royal Navy, but not pre-service or recruiting focused, our Aim is to foster good citizenship by preparing young people to play an active role in their own community.
   
   
4. Our parent charity The Marine Society & Sea Cadets is the largest, oldest maritime charity in the world, and each of the 400 Sea Cadet Units which make up the Sea Cadet Corps is an independent charity in its own right.
   
   
5. Junior image of the Senior Service, the Sea Cadet Corps flies the flag for the Royal Navy (and Merchant Marine) where it matters most, in the youthful heart of the community.
   
   
6. Preserving nautical traditions, hornpipe and cutlass drills, knots and splices, seamanship under sail aboard our square rigged flagship, semaphore and the flags of Nelson’s Navy, adventure and excitement – the perfect antidote to computer game syndrome!
   
   
7. Sea Cadet Units serve their local community from which volunteer staff and Cadets are drawn.
   
   
8. All our instructors are qualified, CRB cleared and approved to work with young people. All our staff are required to conform to a written, formal Code of Conduct.
   
   
9. Uniform and equipment is provided free of charge and weekly activities cost Cadets less than the price of a packet of chewing gum
   
   
10. Many Units have Marine Cadet Detachments, open to boys and girls over age thirteen, based on the traditions of the Royal Marines.
    Forty percent of Sea Cadets are girls.