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Unit Welfare Office
themselves a few goals to achieve; open UWO
Capt Karl Rhodes community relations with the local Council UWO SNCO
CSgt Robert Hirst and residents, open the community centre, UWO JNCO
Cpl Daniel Kelly and look to build relations with local football Welfare Clerk
Mrs Andrea Morton clubs.
of youth clubs, art sessions and outdoor activities, run by AFC Fylde, Blackpool AFC, Home-start, and AWS, to name but a few among a long list of charities and agencies who deliver for our Armed Forces Community.
Some of the many other activities that have taken place under the coordination of the Welfare Team are a MacMillan Coffee morning raising £350; Children’s Halloween and Christmas Parties; a bonfire night and fireworks display, which brought the Armed Forces and local community together; SCUBA diving lessons run by Blackpool Area divers, free of charge every Saturday; and a Command and Leadership day at Blackpool and Fylde Nautical College in Fleetwood, where the Welfare Officer lead the way in ‘Sea Survival’ skills. I can only commend the team(s) that I as Welfare Officer have had at my disposal and say THANK YOU for all the hard work you have put in over the past 12 months, all usually unnoticed. You deliver such a great service here in Weeton, Blackpool for Service Personnel and their families, you have surpassed all expectations this year.
Capt Rhodes
Opening the Community Centre seemed an easy achievement to fulfil. However, when you throw in COVID FHP measures, different agencies with different return
Since the last edition of the MERCIAN Eagle to work rules, and a community who
the Unit Welfare Office has had an extremely have been through so many different rule busy period. We said farewell to one JNCO, changes and lockdowns from Cyprus and Cpl Jason Earnshaw (LANCS), who after the SBA to the UK, the task proved to be 24 years of dedicated service went on to more complex than first thought. Thanks start a new career within what we soldiers’ to many hours of ward work from the
call ‘Civvy Strasse’. From all Officers’ and team and in consultation with our on-site Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion we wish you all Community Development worker, Ms
the best for the future. Rachel Day, we have managed to surpass
The departure of Earnie, saw new our own expectations.
blood arrive within the Welfare Team, Cpl The community centre opened in May Ned Kelly! In true fashion of any welfare 21 and since then we have secured £8100 team, he was coached into the role gently, from the Armed Forces Covenant Trust fund leading on the first coffee morning since to regenerate our sensory garden. This will the opening of the community centre after allow Wellbeing sessions to be delivered that break we called the ‘Pandemic’. During not only to Service Personnel and their
the deployment of the Bn to Kenya on OP dependents but also to local Veterans in ASKARI STORM, the Welfare Team gave need of a little help. There is a full schedule
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