How about…
‘All the left over bits’
Seems to be about right for what’s going on.
1 Like
One too many beers taking. Meant West Midlands 🤦🏻
Wales and West, not Wales and Wessex!
Sheesh.
Don’t make me get the compass and the crayons out and start defiling a map…
1 Like
I suspect that’ll be altered very soon 
The same Christmas message says they are going T’North
Known about a while ago I think.
Not a Sharpie?
Out of curiosity would there be any Sqns that wouldn’t make the change & have to jump wings due to RFCA areas?
No idea, but I would expect there to be 1 or 2
1 Like
Nah. With crayon, in my handwriting, I reckon I could blame it on some hapless 12 year old recruit when our DofE bod complains about the state of their sacred cartographic parchment.
It’s about time all this rubbish was consigned to the bin. We only need 2 regions if at all … North and South, purely as an administrative function, taking a line from The Wash or Humber to the Mersey and make things Wingcentric. The regions need be no more than desks at HQAC. This means we can get rid of at least 4 Gp Capts and accommodation costs and remove that burden from the public purse. I have not seen the need for regions for years now as they serve no real purpose, other than a hidey hole for retirees and CFAV who think rather too highly of themselves.
Wings and wing boundaries another thing there seems to be too much excitement about. The why we don’t just use county boundaries has always passed me by. The concentration has to be on squadrons because the only thing that matter in the Air Cadets is squadrons … no squadrons … no cadets or CFAV … no need for anything else. All this moving region boundaries is fluff to make it look like people are doing something, but it is no more than a meaningless admin exercise and we are sucked into their silly games.
1 Like
I think you are missing out a whole chunk of regional responsibility - ie the TSAs, health and safety advisors, range inspections etc etc. Why not speak to your local regional hq and ask to shadow the Gp Capt for a week.
It’s alright he will go off about gold plated pensions in a minute, someone must’ve put 20p in the muppet.
On reflection I don’t think we are being bold enough, if we are going this route I would scrap Wings and Regions as we know them. Create 13 Wings based on the RFCA areas all with an FTRS head. Merge the 33 existing Wing & Region Staffs into the 13 HQ’s with each having permanent staff responsible for authorising all high risk to life events. Volunteers (ATTO/Shooting Officer/Fieldcraft etc) would have no safety oversight/approval responsibilities but would instead be able to devote all of their volunteering time to running training and events.
15 Likes
Certainly agree that volunteering should be able to focus on delivery not administration.
No safety oversight is a little too black and white, but from an authorisation and responsibilities standpoint yes.
1 Like
This can be done as Head Office functions without the replication. Why do we need 6 or more of everything?
If we aligned to RFCA areas why not go the whole hog and let them become our “approvers”? It seems to work for the ACF and given the activities and other things we do are broadly the same, it makes sense financially.
I seem to recall that everyone having NGB tickets was going to mean we could just get on and do, in the end a step too far for people looking to create and or protect their jobs.
1 Like
I wish I could like your post more than once!
Centralise these into work from home but line managed from HQAC.
Why do we need 6 regional offices.
These roving WFH experts could then be more beneficial.
Especially If their contacted hours were at the same time changed to include 3 evenings per week. You know… at parading times!
2 Likes
Can someone stick this into VoV as an idea? 
7 Likes
For those without Sharepoint access interested in the AOC 22 group letter linked at the top of this thread:
4 Likes