NAVY NEWS, SEPTEMBER 2001
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In Brief THE ROYAL Navy and Royal Marines in Scotland teamed up with Tayside Police and legal firm Thorntons WS to support the Safer Scotland 'Know the Score' campaign against drug abuse. Part of the campaign is to educate youngsters and to encourage them to take up active pursuits. Players from the Dundee U n i t e d Social Club under-Ids team were presented with Know the Score training shirts, match footballs and water bottles at RM Condor in Arbroath. A FIVE-mile run by WO Gary Conniff resulted in the donation of a TV and video system to a Portsmouth centre providing support to people with mental health problems. Gary, of HMS Collingwood, used donations to pay for the equipment, which will be used by Shaw Trust, Harbour Enterprises, for training.
A WORKING party from 702 Naval Air Squadron, the Navy's Lynx helicopter training squadron based at Yeovilton, has helped create a new play area for Grass Royal Junior School at Yeovil. Team leader Lt Catie Nunnen said: 'A large area of the school's grounds had become overgrown and was unusable by the children. "We worked on the heavy tasks, clearing the area so the school will be able to create a new play area in which the children will be able to grow plants." WHEN foot and mouth disease prevented a Gosport school from making a trip to Wales, staff sought a worthwhile alternative. The teachers, from Holbrook Primary School, contacted Lt Tony West - and sailors at HMS Collingwood, led by LPT Jason Hawkins and RPO
Graham
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Haynes, came up
trumps by organising a sports afternoon for 36 pupils aged ten and 11,
TWO SSAFA Forces Help community volunteers from Gosport arc to trek through an African desert for charity in October. Linda Lee and Norman Young will trek in the Namib Desert to raise funds for Rukba and SSAFA. Linda's husband is serving aboard HMS Campbeltown, while
the sparse conditions on the trek will be no problem for 73-year-old Norman, a former submariner. If you would like to support Linda or Norman, or want to know more about the trek, contact the organisers of 020 7605 4283. MEMBERS of the WO and SR Mess at HMS Collingwood have presented toddlers' toys to the Ranvilles Children's Play Group, Fareham. The centre, which is run by
Kursk children see the best of Scotland CHILDREN of submariners who died aboard the Russian submarine Kursk had their wish granted twiee over when they spent a ten-day holiday in the UK. The ten - ranging from ten to I') - had expressed a wish to see a Seottish castle, hut ended up as guests of honour at two. Originally dreamt up hy wives of Royal Navy suhmariners. the holiday was a joint effort hetween the Navy, the RN/RM Family Association, the RN Chaplaincy
and the Naval Personnel and Family Services. Royal Sailors Rests, the Naval Christian charity, hosted the children at Braeholm, Helcnshurgh, near Clyde Naval Base at Faslane, and many departments chipped in to organise a programme. Time was spent with the MOD at Faslane - home of the Royal Navy's First Suhmarine Squadron - when they met the police dogs and had a trip in a Fleet tender. HMS Caledonia invited the children, who all study English, to Fife for a civic reception, where they received the Freedom of the Kingdom of Fife. A visit to Stirling Castle and the Loudon Castle Fair proved popular, and a hotel hosted them for an afternoon of activities, including a boat trip on Loch Lomond, swimming, quad hiking and archery. The MOD Police took the party to visit Rangers Football Club at Ibrox in Glasgow, and the local Sea Cadets, TS Neptune, held a barbecue in their honour. A surprise was laid on for their final evening when a local man. who had read about their arrival in
a break TEN victims of the Chernobyl disaster in Russia have visited HMS Raleigh during a two-month stay in Devon and Cornwall. The children were brought to the UK by the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline Charily, which aims to boost the damaged immune systems of the children, aged eight to 12, by providing them with plenty of fresh foods, vitamins, clean air and fun. Their visit to Raleigh began with a competition in the swimming pool, followed by a children's party at which Commodore Laurie Brokenshire, the Commodore of HMS Raleigh, delighted his audience with magic tricks. Flagship Catering manager Paul Johnson provided food and fresh fruit, while Lizzie Duck and Jean Bait of SODEXHO Services came up with party balloons and trimmings, along with goodies bags. The children then went to Jupiter Point, the Sea Sense Training Centre, for a boat trip down the Tamar.
Charity amendment i Children of submariners who died in the Kursk tour the Clyde Naval Base at Faslane.
the press, put on a private dinner party for the children in his castle. They were welcomed on arrival by a piper, and after dinner a family played traditional Celtic music. The children have now returned home to Russia. • The Kursk Kids Committee Fund presently stands at around £16,000. with' half of it being money pledged in kind - offers of accommodation, food and so on. The money has been raised through fund-raising events such as sponsored breakfasts and ear boot sales. Just six weeks ago. in midJune when the idea was first discussed, the fund stood at 82p, all that remained after the initial pur-
chase of items for the committee's first fund-raising venture. Any further donations to the Kursk Kids Committee Fund should he sent to the Royal Sailors Rest in Helensburgh - the ten who travelled to the UK represent less then a fifth of the children who lost fathers in the accident. The Kursk, an 18,300-ton Oscar
II-class nuclear attack submarine, sank in the Barents Sea in Ausuist 2000 with the loss of 118 men.'She was crippled by an unexplained explosion in the forward compartment, and sank in 30()ft of water. Salvage work is under way, with plans to cut away the damaged hows before she is raised on cables slung from a lifting barge.
THE CHARITY Commission proposes to make a Scheme to amend the trusts of the King William IV Naval Foundation charity. A copy of the draft Scheme can be seen at 4. Swanmore Park. Upper Swanmore. Southampton, or can he obtained by sending an SAE to the Charity Commission. Woodfield House, Tangier, Taunton. Somerset TAI 4BL. quoting reference 215897 AFC. Comments or representations can be made by September 13.
Groundforce Glasgow A GROUNDFORCE team from
opened in October 1998 as part of
HMS Glasgow helped a shelter for
the London-based Task Brasil charity. The work done by Glasgow will allow the shelter to double in
abandoned street children and teenagad mothers in Brazil by clearing an area of scrub to make way for a shelter extension. The shelter, named Casa Jimmy in honour of the substantial support provided by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, has cared for
more than 200 children since it
capacity.
The shelter is now a regular call for sailors of RN and RFA ships in the region.
Glasgow has been on patrol in the South Atlantic.
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