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The Ulysses Trust provides encouragement, advice and essential financial support for challenging expeditions undertaken by the UK’s Volunteer Reserve and Cadet forces. “As we come out of lockdown, the challenge of mounting an expedition as part of the post-COVID recovery is something that we recommend to boost recruiting, enable retention and improve physical and mental […]

The Ulysses Trust provides encouragement, advice and essential financial support for challenging expeditions undertaken by the UK’s Volunteer Reserve and Cadet forces. The Ulysses Trust New Horizons Fundraising Campaign aims to raise further funds to support the expanding numbers of Cadets in the UK. The costs of expeditions are not met from the public purse […]

Reservists from 203 Squadron, Loughborough have been on training courses as part of Project Phoenix, which is the overriding desire to get the Army back into work following the COVID-19 outbreak. Warrant Officer 2 Stef Daunt has been busy teaching both Regulars and Reserve students across the military how to drive Cat C and Cat […]

The Olympic Games will be taking place in Tokyo this summer, after being postponed last year due to the Coronavirus pandemic, so the Sea Cadets decided to set themselves an incredible challenge. Together with their supporters, they have been working as a team to walk, cycle, row, swim or run from Rushden to Tokyo, with […]

Private Ollie Wilson (21) and Jack Bramford (26), both of whom parade at the Leicester based Army Reserve unit in Ulverscroft Road, volunteered to serve on Operation ROSE. Since the advent of the Kent strain of the Coronavirus, all those crossing the Channel to mainland Europe are required to be tested for the virus. So, […]

What attracted you to join East Midlands Universities Officer Training Corps (EMUOTC)? I previously did Cadets at school and therefore I had a bit of exposure to military training. I remember at fresher’s fair in my first year someone telling me that you could get paid to do things like walking, kayaking and climbing. That […]

Colour Sergeant Mat Hardy, 4 (Lincolnshire) Company, shared Catalina’s unusual story as a non-British female soldier. In January 2021, Catalina Bucur was attested into the British Army at Grimsby Army Reserve Centre by Major Mitch Pegg, Officer Commanding 4 (Lincolnshire) Company, 3 Royal Anglian. Normally, attestations are business as usual for us here at 4 […]

What attracted you to join East Midlands Universities Officer Training Corps (EMUOTC)? The biggest thing that attracted me to EMUOTC was that it was something interesting to do with my time while at university. Additionally, it was somewhere that I could socialise and make close friends. I was previously a Cadet with Cambridgeshire ACF from […]

Cerys, aged 16, commented: “It’s absolutely amazing to be nominated as the Lord Lieutenant’s Cadet. When Tegan got it, I was really proud of her, but with sibling rivalry, I felt a bit jealous. I thought, that’s what I want to do – it spurred me on. Hearing that I was a candidate, I was […]

After being put forward by their Wing Commander back in February to host a special guest during a virtual session, the squadron were informed in early March that they had been selected to host Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Richard Maddison OBE MA RAF. AVM Maddison is the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) 22 Group RAF, which […]