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Beating Retreat DECEMBER 2019 • ISSUE 23 High-LightTHE TRI-SERVICE MAGAZINE OF HIGHLAND RESERVE FORCES’ AND CADETS’ ASSOCIATION Beating Retreat Web: HRFCA.CO.UK Facebook: FACEBOOK.COM/HRFCA – Pages 10 & 11 Twitter: @HRFCA 2 | High-Light • Issue 23 Busy time for staf f and units s is usually the case it has been a very busy Our three Area Committee Meetings passed off in a flurry Autumn period for all the HRFCA staff and of activity over a 10 day period in October, swiftly followed by A the Gold and Silver Employer Recognition Scheme awards in the reserve and cadet units we support. London and Edinburgh for a record number of companies or As this edition shows, there have been a large number organisations. of cadet and reserve exercises, employer engagement and Cadet music has again been catching the employer award events and we are headlines with another stunning performance in the middle of the part of the year by the tri-Service cadet pipes and drums for Her when most construction and estates Majesty The Queen at Balmoral in August, and maintenance activity occurs. This more recently the military bands and some pipers is also a busy period in the cadet and drummers performed at the Nanchang Tattoo training cycle and our Professional in southern China in October. Support Staff have been very active in Photos and links to that excellent performance support of this. can be found on our website and Facebook page. On the estates side I am pleased The Association has disbursed nearly £30,000 to report that plans to replace three in grants so far this financial year to reserve and single service cadet huts, deemed cadet units to support welfare, adventure training, beyond economic repair, with new, Chief Executive Mark Dodson speaking at the ERS Silver Awards. battlefield tours, music and so on and our sister modular construction facilities are organisation, the Highland Cadet Forces Trust, has under way with work starting at disbursed a further £1200 to cadet projects. Details of this very Newport on 2 December, to be followed at Bo’ness and Banff worthwhile charity can be found below. in 2020. There will be much that has gone on unreported and we At the same time refurbishment of 21 cadet huts has been always welcome articles from units, so please keep feeding them ongoing across the whole of our area, as has the renovation to us. of Strathmore Avenue, Dundee for the Royal Navy and Royal Marine reserves and a number of small projects on 11 Army Reserve Centres. Mark Dodson Her Majesty The Queen with HRFCA Chief Executive Brigadier Mark Dodson (centre) and Lowland RFCA Chief Executive Colonel Robbie Gibson at the Balmoral Beating Retreat. If you wish to make a charitable donation to the Highland Cadet Forces Trust, the bank details are: A/C no: 30401028 Highland Cadet Sort code: 83-91-46 (VAF Bank) A Direct Debit mandate form is also enclosed in this Forces Trust edition of High-Light. High-Light • Issue 23 | 3 Contents 4 4 ERS Gold Awards 5 ERS Silver Awards 6 Insight into Reservists 7 Employers visit Faslane 8, 9 Area meetings 7 8 10, 11 By Royal appointment 12, 13 Ex Northern Fox Cadet 14 Ex Oak Leaf 12 15 Cadets round-up 16 Spanish adventure 16 5 High-Light is designed and produced for [email protected] you by Highland RFCA, Seathwood, tel: 01382 631027 twitter: @hrfca 365 Perth Road, Dundee, DD2 1LX facebook: facebook.com/HRFCA 4 | High-Light • Issue 23 Representatives from the six winning organisations in the HRFCA area. 100 organisations strike Gold epresentatives from 100 They were Aberdeenshire Council, winning organisations IED Training Solutions, Knockhill Racing R Circuit, Police Scotland, Stirling Council collected their Defence and West Dunbartonshire Council. Employer Recognition Scheme Bill Howatson (Aberdeenshire Council), (ERS) Gold Awards during Ian Clark (IED), Stuart Gray (Knockhill), an event at the National Iain Livingstone (Police Scotland), Kristine Army Museum in London. Johnson (Stirling Council), and Geraldine Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Lyden (West Dunbartonshire Council) Nick Carter spoke to those in attendance collected the awards. on 12 November before handing out The MOD’s ERS Gold Awards represent certificates at a fantastic evening, which the highest badge of honour available to also included the Welsh Guard Drummers, those that employ and support those who serve, veterans, and their families. Band of the Scots Guards Trumpeters and supporting individuals transitioning out The Band of the Royal Yeomanry. The scheme continues to grow year on of the Armed Forces into a new career Six organisations from the HRFCA area year with awardees doubling in the last 12 and providing flexibility for Reservists. received awards for their outstanding months, taking the total to 228. Included in the 100 recipients are 23 Local support to the Armed Forces community Employers have won awards for Authorities, 13 NHS Hospitals and Trusts (there were 11 Scottish winners in total). initiatives such as employing veterans, and 29 SMEs. Geraline Lyden and Rachel Robb of West Dunbartonshire Council with a pair of Coldstream Guards. General Sir Nick Carter speaks to the attendees. High-Light • Issue 23 | 5 Silver celebration The 2019 Employer Recognition Scheme Silver Award winners. mployers from all over Fife Chamber of Commerce, High Life and Cadets. Maj Gen Brooks-Ward E Scotland gathered at Edinburgh Highland, Scottish Water, SFB Consulting, then spoke to the gathering on the Castle’s Great Hall to receive and Sport Aberdeen. importance of employing Reservists. He The other Scottish award recipients also made special mention of HRFCA’s Defence Employer Recognition ChamberFORCE initiative, which he were: BD Print, Bell Group, Bruce Scheme (ERS) Silver Awards. praised as “excellent”. Stevenson Insurance Brokers, CAMOR, Around 100 guests looked on as 18 East Lothian Council, Forrest Precision Brigadier Dodson thanked the Band of organisations were awarded with certificates Engineering, Glasgow Caledonian HM Royal Marines for delivering music from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in University, Heriot Watt University, NHS on the night to their customary high standard, and to Willie McIntyre and recognition of the support they give to the Dumfries & Galloway, Phoenix Group, Armed Forces community. the young pipers from George Heriot’s and Wilson Auto Repairs. School in Edinburgh who turned in a The 14 November event was jointly The awards were presented by Major fine performance. He also thanked 154 organised by Highland and Lowland RFCAs. General Simon Brooks-Ward, Assistant (Scottish) Regiment RLC for helping with The guests and service hosts were Chief of the Defence Staff for Reserves the background logistics. welcomed to the Great Hall by Lt Col Hugo Clark, the Commander of Edinburgh Garrison. Master of Ceremonies for the evening was Highland RFCA Chief Executive Brigadier Mark Dodson. Prior to the presentation of the awards, the audience listened to vignettes from the perspective of a Reservist, a Cadet Force Adult Volunteer (CFAV), and an employer. First they heard from Scott Menzies, a Reservist with 6 SCOTS and an employee of Loganair, who spoke about his dual role as Silver recipients included (from left) Fife Chamber of Commerce, Dundee & Angus Chamber of both a Reservist and an employee. Then Flying Commerce, High Life Highland, Sport Aberdeen, Scottish Water and EVi Charge Points. Officer Ashley Brooks of 1756 (Broxburn) Squadron spoke on the role of the CFAV. Finally, the audience heard from one of this year’s Gold Award winners, Police Scotland. Stefan Grzybowski, the organisation’s Early Careers Programme Lead, highlighted the benefits of employing Reservists. This year saw a record number of Silver Awards achieved in Scotland. The winners from the HRFCA-area were: Dundee & Angus Marie Johnstone receives the Silver Chamber of Commerce, EVi Charge Points, Guests in the Laich Hall prior to the awards. Award for SFB Consulting. 6 | High-Light • Issue 23 Employers look into the back of a field ambulance and (right) medical Reservists prepare to load a ‘casualty’. As part of the event, Dave Bywater, the chair of Basics Scotland, signed the Armed Forces Covenant with Group Captain Mike Priestly co-signing on behalf of Defence. Insight into Reservist training mployers gained a valuable insight into Reservist E training courtesy of Leuchars-based 612 Squadron RAF Medical Reserves. The event was timed to them personally in their coincide with 612 Squadron’s role as a paramedic with the Annual Continuous Training Scottish Ambulance Service. (ACT) period and involved RAF This development included Medical Reserves personnel funded academic qualifications from across the UK. This provided by the RAF, an involved the Reservists being operational deployment tested in a live deployed overseas, leadership and environment, showcasing some management skills, team of their operational medical working and becoming a more and leadership capabilities. confident and resilient problem Following on from a short solver. introduction about the Guests who attended the Armed Forces Covenant and October event included From left: Jim Dickie (HRFCA), Wing Commander Mark Colligan (CO Defence Employer Recognition Pauline Howie (CEO Scottish 612 Sqn), Pauline Howie (CEO Scottish Ambulance Service), Edward Scheme, employers were Ambulance Service), Edward Dunning (NHS Fife), Sarah Dickie (NHS Tayside), Dave Bywater (Basics taken to the exercise area Dunning (Surgeon, NHS Fife), Scotland), Group Captain Mike Priestly (Commander Medical RAF), where Reservists were treating Dave Bywater (Chair Basics Alan Cowan (HRFCA), and Sharon Swash (HRFCA). simulated casualties as part Scotland), and Sarah Dickie the Armed Forces. BASICS The visit to Leuchars of an overseas humanitarian (Interim Executive Nurse Scotland Chair Dave Bywater Station was organised by response scenario. Director, NHS Tayside). signed the document, with HRFCA Regional Employer After a quick break for The event also saw an Armed Group Captain Mike Priestly, Engagement Director Jim lunch, the group heard Forces Covenant signing with Commander Medical Royal Dickie.
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