Sea Cadets will be giving their land based training centre a much needed refurbishment after recently receiving a donation from National Grid.
Known as TS Plymouth, the Sea Cadets' unit is located off the River Lee towpath. However after six decades of use the facility was ready for a makeover.
National Grid is currently working in the area refurbishing the overhead electricity lines between Waltham Cross and Tottenham. This vital work is being carried out by the Electricity Alliance, a partnership between National Grid and Balfour Beatty. The donation from the project will help fund renovations to the kitchen, shower block and boat shed.
National Grid Project Engineer Simon Chandler, said: “The Sea Cadet Corps do a fantastic job teaching young people new skills in an environment which offers them friendship, fun and adventure. National Grid is delighted to help TS Plymouth with the facility refurbishment and support the hard work and commitment by their cadets and instructors. “
Electricity Alliance contractors, Red 7 Marine have also offered to support the Cadet's refurbishment plans by donating three boats to add to TS Plymouth’s fleet.
Delighted Edmonton Unit Commanding Officer, Chief Petty Officer Tony Stevens said: “We're really grateful to the Electricity Alliance for their support; it's a great boost to the young people who use the facilities. We are all very excited; this is a really positive step for the unit and will enable us to offer a better and more varied training programme than is already available.”
This has been a very successful year so far for the unit. At their annual unit review they were awarded a “Burgee” the first time in the unit’s 62 years of training cadets. A “Burgee” is awarded to those units which have achieved a “very good” standard or better.
The Sea Cadet Corps is Britain's most successful nationwide voluntary nautical organisation for the development of young people aged between 10 and 18 and is run by enthusiastic adult volunteers. The remit of the Sea Cadets is to provide serious fun, friendship, adventure and learning new skills based on waterborne and land based activities. The cadets are also actively involved in the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
Edmonton Sea Cadets meet at their unit, TS Plymouth on Tuesdays and Thursday evenings at 7:30pm-9.30pm. Anyone interested in joining can call the unit on 020 8807 9129 or turn up on a parade night and speak to a member of staff.
For information about The Electricity Alliance's Waltham Cross to Tottenham overhead line refurbishment works please call the community relations team on 0800 021 7890.
This work forms part of National Grid and the Electricity Alliances ongoing maintenance programme to ensure the security of electricity transmission to London and the South East.
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