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ness of a cadet under training but not so for one with a leg or back injury. The Sandhurst Trust, therefore, provided an electric golf buggy to ferry Lucknow Platoon cadets around the Academy, thus greatly reducing their walking distance and speeding recovery and a return to training.
Outside the Academy, the Trust negotiated an arrangement with the Army and Navy Club in Pall Mall, London. Cadets who are Trust Members can take two years free membership of the club and over fty have taken up the offer to date.
In conclusion, the best way to sum up the Sand- hurst Trust in 2016 is to look at the gures:
We disbursed £77,204 (up from £20,290 in 2015)
£31,280 in AT grants to 491 Of cer Cadets
£17,400 in grants to the Of cers’ Association and the Veterans Charity
£4,471 in grants in support of RMAS activities
£3,700 in grants for welfare within RMAS
The remainder was split between the myriad of activities the Trust supports, from the Lucknow Buggy through to prizes for Exercise LONG REACH, the Intermediate Term leadership debates and the overseas medal.
Remember, The Sandhurst Trust is the Army Of cer Charity and your charity. For more infor- mation see our website:
sandhursttrust.org
Safeguarding Academy Heritage: Sandhurst Collection News
By Sebastian Puncher, MA AMA, Deputy Curator
The Sandhurst Collection supports the Com- mandant’s objectives of projecting the ethos and values of the Sandhurst Group and assisting Defence Engagement. It does this by safeguarding and promoting the heritage of the Academy. In this article I highlight some of the activities of the Collection during the past year that have been in line with this objective.
New Acquisitions
2016 saw the completion of a project that I had been working on for two years. This was the res- cue, restoration and installation of historic book- cases (1874) from the library of the old Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to Sandhurst.
Since the Woolwich Academy closed in 1939 the buildings were retained by the MoD and used by the Royal Artillery as their museum and archive. This moved, and the building sold to a property developer, Durkan, around 2009. All of the RMA chapel memorials were moved to the current Royal Memorial Chapel but the book- cases remained in situ.
For my PhD research I visited the old academy to understand how the buildings related to the cadet experience. Noel O’Dowd from Durkan gave me a tour around the building site. He explained that it was dif cult to develop the cen- tral block; not only because of the very large classrooms, but also the enormous gothic style book cases which covered all available wall space in the two ground oor rooms. I men- tioned that there might be scope for them to be
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