Padstow Sea Cadets

15/03/2026

So, last weekend, as well as our cadets coming away with the Gold at the South West Area Drill Competition, our Commanding Officer, Chief Petty Officer Dave Green, was presented with a Captain of the Sea Cadets Commendation for his development and leadership of Padstow Unit. Well done Chief!

09/03/2026

South West Area Winners 2026!

09/03/2026

Taken from the Live Feed of the Event on Saturday, here is the moment our Standard Party Team were announced as the South West Area winners for 2026!
The whole Unit and District are so very proud of them!

07/03/2026

Padstow's Standard Party WINNER at the South West Area Drill Competition!
Our Cadets put on an outstanding display and out of 8 county teams competing, have come away with the Gold for Cornwall.
We will now, for the first time in 2 decades, advance to the National Competition in April representing South West Area!

A massive congratulations to our other colleagues from Cornwall, with the District as a whole winning every category - Best Unarmed Squad to Penzance, Best Continuity Display to Torpoint, Best Piping Team to St Austell and Best Individual Piper to St Austell.
Overall South West Area Drill and Piping Competition winners - Cornwall.
Incredible results!

07/03/2026

Go Team Padstow!

On our way to HMS Raleigh to represent Cornwall at the South West Area Sea Cadets Drill Competition!

06/03/2026

So, tomorrow our Drill Team will head off to HMS Raleigh to compete and represent Cornwall at the South West Area Drill Competition.
We were lucky enough to have our final practice session at HMS Raleigh last Sunday, where the team proved themselves ready to show what Cornwall can do!
Best of luck to them all.

25/02/2026

A thank you to all our fantastic volunteers!

22/02/2026

In February, as well as our Annual Awards Evening, we have also presented a lot of other badges and certificates. This has included the Formal Enrolment of our newest cadets, where they said their Sea Cadet Promise and were presented with their Beret. Along with a selection of Junior Cadet Module Badges, Basic and Intermediate First Aid Badges, a Basic CIS (Communications & Information Systems) Badge, Intermediate Seamanship, Sailing Stage 3 Badge and a Good Conduct Badge. All topped off with 1 Cadet Promotion to Cadet 1st Class and 4 Promotions to Ordinary Cadet. It has been a busy month!

17/02/2026

On Sunday, we were invited to attend St Merryn Church for their HMS Warwick Memorial Service. HMS Warwick was sadly sunk off the coast of Padstow on 20th February 1944 and both Padstow and St Merryn hold annual services to remember those who were lost.
It was an honour for a small group of our cadets and adults to attend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warwick_(D25)

16/02/2026

On Friday 13th February we hosted our Annual Awards. This is our yearly opportunity to celebrate all that our fantastic young people have achieved over the last 12 months and recognise their individual successes and hard work.
We were pleased to be joined this year by representatives from even more local organisations, including the Padstow Royal British Legion, Padstow Town Council, Nadelik Lowen Padstow, Padstow Harbour Commissioners and Padstow Sailing Club. Along with lots of other parents and supporters.
Thank you to District Officer, Cornwall District SCC for being our VIP for the evening and presenting the awards.
A wonderful evening had by all and huge congratulations to all our winners.

Huge thank you also to Padstow Social Club for hosting us for this event.

NOTE - Apologies to the quality of the photos. Sadly we could not get the lighting right and the brightness of the screen in the background did not do our duty photographer any favours.

24/01/2026

Here is our winning Standard Party Routine at last weekend's Cornwall District Drill Competition.

Padstow Sea Cadets winning Standard Party at Cornwall District Drill Competition 2026 - HMS Raleigh. (18/01/2026)

21/01/2026

Laat weekend we attended the Cornwall District Drill & Piping Competition and what a weekend we had!
Our Standard Party Team put on a fantastic display and came away as Winners in their category. They will now progress to represent Cornwall at the South West Area Competition in March.
Cdt Ben represented the Unit in the Individual Piper Competition, coming a very respectable 3rd Place. A great achievement for his first ever competition.
And last but not least, our Junior Cadets also put on a fantastic display to come 2nd in the Junior Drill Competition.
Huge well done to them all!