For sea cadets it is useful as a lot of the joint building maintenance works are easier to progress as if they don’t have their own building then they are in schoool or church halls with all the faff that goes with it.
Having spent almost 18 months in a non rfca building last year, despite ultimately minor frustrations I will always be grateful to be under them! When you take a deeper look of what they provide, and how much it ultimately saves the squadron is massive.
I know a Sqn on an raf base who aren’t under rfca as they are under the raf and they seem to be in an even worse state as in theory the station will sort all the issues / challenges out yet they tend to be the lowest priority.
I’ve had the opposite experience. RFCA stuffed my old squadron over entirely, removing the ATC office in the refurb and turning it into a “servery” so that it could be a breakout room for when they hired the place out.
Which they never did.
Meanwhile my SCC unit has a full kitchen, showers and sleeps in the building on occasion, which RFCA probably wouldn’t allow.
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I think whatever you are under comes with challenges. I’ve run two Sqns on RAF Stations, both received huge support from the RAF but there is only so much that can be done with old buildings, which is what Sqns on RAF bases tend to be in, I’ve also had really good and really poor support from RFCA over the years. I fought for years to get issues resolved in one building, while seeing a Sqn that never opened again after covid get a brand new (sole use) building, not sure that building even saw six months of use and it’s still sat empty now.
The local Sea Cadets to me is right on the waterside, admittedly canal rather than river so hopefully more control when it comes to flooding, put it this way, if the SCC gets flooded then my MQ is also going under!
I’ve been on a TA centre and that was the worst of both worlds!
Erm, to do watersports you kind of need to be near a river or water of some sort - I mean, we tend to go flying pretty close to airfields.
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How close usually?
Depends on how soon before travel the stop notice was issued.
I was reffering to the air cadets… not scc…
Obvs they need water! Lol
well, right on it hopefully 
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Good publicity and good to see permanent staff taking a lead on this. Let’s hope there are some concrete actions quickly and that insurance can cover some of the equipment lost.
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