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Make a difference
Young people from Greenwich Police cadets and Respond Community Matters did not let the summer holidays stop them getting stuck in to making a difference to lots of other young peoples lives.
The young people from Greenwich and Bexley spent a week away on an environmental residential at McMillan House in Wrotham Kent.
The team cleared ponds, built new paths and tamed the wild garden, as well as a few of the smaller less glamorous jobs around the Margret McMillan environmental study centre. The centre is visited by thousands of young School children throughout the year giving them the chance to study nature up close.
Project Coordinator Simon Platt from Respond Community Matters said that the young people who earlier this year had won the most exceptional youth activity at CSV’s Make A Differences day awards, had all worked so hard to deliver all of challenges for the week and always did it with a smile and a laugh.
It is a shame that more people in the community don’t get to see and hear about the positive achievements made by young people.
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RESERVISTS TAKES OVER DEVON
Mid September saw TA soldiers deployed to Devon for their annual camp. Members of the London based Royal Signals underwent two weeks of tough training including a 3-day patrol across the Devon moors.
For Signaller, Aaron Smith of Erith, it was not his first time on an annual camp but his enthusiasm for the annual activity was not diminished. This year Smith’s favourite part of the annual camp was the combat exercise.
‘Running across Dartmoor in combat training,’ the 21 year old enthused, ‘playing enemies with the other Squadrons was a lot of fun, but it was also a hard exercise.’
Local boy Smith has lived in Erith for most of his life. A scaffolder by day he joined 256 Signal Squadron a year and a half ago as ‘something to do.’ Since then he has been trained by the TA as an Electrician, one of many trades within the Royal Signals.
‘As a Royal Signaller you operate and maintain battlefield communication systems’ says Smith, ‘and training is of the utmost importance.’
This year camp activities included map reading, weapons training drills and first aid skills, ‘they are designed to keep us sharp,’ said Smith, ‘to keep us combat ready.’
‘I enjoyed it so much,’ Smith said, ‘I wish it had been for longer.’
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