2531 Burnham-On-Crouch Detached Flight ATC

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2531 Burnham-On-Crouch Detached Flight ATC Burnham On Crouch's; local Royal Air Force, Air Cadet unit.

2531 (Burnham On Crouch) Detached Flight.

The cadet experience is open to everyone, so whatever your nationality, background or ability, whether you're male or female, if you're between 13, or at age 12 when beginning school year 8, YOU can join us! The maximum age for entry is 17 years old, therefore you can request to join us anytime between your 12th and 17th birthday.

Day 4 of National Cadets Week and the focus today is Saving Lives.First Aid is a vital skill and our cadets and voluntee...
08/10/2026

Day 4 of National Cadets Week and the focus today is Saving Lives.

First Aid is a vital skill and our cadets and volunteers have used these skills both within the organisation and in the community; most recently assisting an elderly gentleman who was struck by a car.

Basic first aid training is mandatory for all cadets. As with all our training, the syllabus is progressive and is summarised below:

• Blue Badge (Essential First Aid): A 2-to-3-hour introductory course covering unconscious casualties, recovery positions, basic CPR, choking, and serious bleeding.
• Bronze Badge (Youth First Aid): A 12-hour comprehensive weekend course (requiring the Blue level) covering expanded topics like asthma, fractures, burns, anaphylaxis, and shock. This also includes casualty management.
• Silver Badge (Activity First Aid): A 16-hour course for senior cadets and mandatory for Civilian Adult Volunteer Staff (CFAVs).
• Gold Badge (Instructor First Aid): Specialist instructor and assessor training (such as 8-day residential courses or certified staff training).

Sergeant Wright, a volunteer at 2531DF, is a London Ambulance Service EMT by day and his experience and enthusiasm ensures our cadets’ training should prepare them to use these skills when necessary.

Our recruitment window is open.

We parade Monday and Thursday nights from 19:10 to 21:30 at the Burnham Baptist Church (opposite the Polash restaurant). Please feel free to drop by and find out more!

This link also provides more details on why First Aid training is a key life skill:

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Day 2 of National Cadets Week is highlighting Cadets in the Community.Our formal engagement with the community is our pa...
06/10/2026

Day 2 of National Cadets Week is highlighting Cadets in the Community.

Our formal engagement with the community is our participation in uniformed parades and in the last year our cadets have attended Remembrance Day services at the Burnham War Memorial and Stow Marie’s historical airfield, cadet Sunday service marking the 85th Anniversary of the organisation and Wing Parade where we marched through Brentwood to attend a service at the cathedral.

Our informal community engagement takes the form of our assistance at events including the Burnham Carnival, the 10K run and others. Poppy collections, assisting the Royal British Legion, at the station and in the town are an important link with the community and our Veterans.
This weekend our cadets will once again be assisting with marshalling duties at the Rotary Club’s 10K run.

Although we are based in Burnham, our cadets live throughout the Dengie peninsular and we are proud to represent the entire Dengie Hundred community.

Our recruitment window is currently open - we parade Mondays and Thursdays, 19:10-21:30 at the Burnham Baptist Church - please drop in if you are interested.

Ahead of the first National Cadets week event, tonight is our Autumn intake open evening at Burnham Baptist Church Churc...
01/10/2026

Ahead of the first National Cadets week event, tonight is our Autumn intake open evening at Burnham Baptist Church Church (opposite the Polash). Join us from 19:45 and find out who we are and what we do!
Potential recruits and their family are welcome to attend.

National Cadets week aims to celebrate the UK’s cadets and adult volunteers and reconnect young people with the armed forces. More information available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cadets-week-2026

Following the Carnival on Saturday, thank you to all those who stopped and engaged with us outside the Baptist church, o...
01/10/2026

Following the Carnival on Saturday, thank you to all those who stopped and engaged with us outside the Baptist church, our cadets were joined by colleagues from 1312 (City of Southend) squadron to deliver IET (Initial Expedition Training). This involved rucksack packing, tent pitching and the safe use of stoves - vital skills for those cadets planning to do their DofE expeditions in 2027.

Our next recruitment open evening is tonight!
If you are in year 8 or above, please join us tonight with your family to find out more about what we do and what we offer. The evening runs from around 19:45 and we’re at Burnham Baptist Church on the High Street, opposite the Polash.

Our next intake night is on Thursday 1st October. Potential recruits and their families are invited to join us the Burn...
23/09/2026

Our next intake night is on Thursday 1st October. Potential recruits and their families are invited to join us the Burnham Baptist Church (opposite the Polash) from 19:30 for a 19:45 start. Our cadets will be on hand to showcase just some of the activities we deliver both on the unit and across the Essex Wing.

Ahead of our Summer break, a quick post on some of the activities we have been up to in July and August.SGT Wright, an E...
10/08/2026

Ahead of our Summer break, a quick post on some of the activities we have been up to in July and August.

SGT Wright, an EMT with the London Ambulance Service, brought an ambulance and equipment to the unit to ‘show and tell’ what he does for the day job, the kit they use and the inside of an ambulance.

Some of our cadets attended the Pioneers of Tomorrow event at Farnborough where they enjoyed an afternoon airshow and walking the halls finding out about the aerospace industry and new developments.

After a couple of false starts we got our cadets into the air again with Air Experience Flying at RAF Wittering.

Leadership skills, tested through command tasks, continue to be developed and form a core of the soft skills we teach our cadets which will aid them in their future careers.

We also had cadet attendance at the RAF Cosford annual camp where the cadets spent time with various units including the School of Technical Training which trains the RAF’s engineers and engineering apprentices.

Finally, we presented awards for cadet classifications, flying and shooting and Cadet Rowley was our cadet of the month for July.

In August our cadets will be attending the Stow Marie’s airshow, the Shuttleworth Collection show and a trip to meet the USAF at RAF Mildenhall.

Our next recruitment night will be on Thursday 1st October following the Carnival and more details will be posted nearer the time.

Congratulations to Sergeant Wright who last week completed his Combined Initial Course at the RAFAC Command & Leadership...
02/07/2026

Congratulations to Sergeant Wright who last week completed his Combined Initial Course at the RAFAC Command & Leadership School at RAFC Cranwell.

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If you are interested in a volunteering role with the RAF Air Cadets, we have a few ways you can get involved with varying levels of commitment. See the RAFAC website for more information or pop in and see us at Burnham Baptist Church on Mondays and Thursdays from 19:30.

At our monthly OC’s Parade we presented awards for the Blue Space syllabus, as well as Leading and Senior cadet classifi...
08/06/2026

At our monthly OC’s Parade we presented awards for the Blue Space syllabus, as well as Leading and Senior cadet classifications and Sgt. Vincent received her Silver Radio badge;
our Cadet of the month was Cadet Maas.

Following an NCO promotion interview process in May we made the following promotions:
Cadet Southern is now appointed to Corporal
Corporal Vincent is now appointed Sergeant and Sergeant Parrish is now appointed Flight Sergeant.

Altum Ferri

Ahead of the Bank Holiday break, cadets, recruits and staff from 2531DF attended Essex Fire & Rescue’s Burnham-on-Crouch...
04/05/2026

Ahead of the Bank Holiday break, cadets, recruits and staff from 2531DF attended Essex Fire & Rescue’s Burnham-on-Crouch Fire Station - arranged by ex-FS George Kennedy who is now an on-call firefighter based there.
Our recruitment window is still open, our next parade night is Thursday 7th May at 19:15 at Burnham Baptist Church.

Split into two groups they were shown around the station’s two appliances, including all the equipment they carry, learnt about the types of calls the crews attend and how the station operates.

The cadets were then given the opportunity to operate the water hoses; surprisingly no staff or cadets got wet!

We would like to thank Steve, Dan and George for taking the time to show us around.

If you live and work in Burnham, Essex Fire & Rescue are always on the lookout for potential on-call crew, details here - https://www.essex-fire.gov.uk/recruitment/on-call

If you want to volunteer with the RAF Air Cadets, information can be found here - https://www.raf.mod.uk/aircadets/volunteers1/being-a-volunteer/

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Burnham On Crouch
CM08HJ

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Monday 7:20pm - 9:20pm
Thursday 7:20pm - 9:20pm

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