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Photo of the Month – May! (Keep those photos rolling in please!)

The NMOC Football Team looking resplendent in the CGA Football Kit!

We have now entered into the English Football Associations Peoples Cup and have our first qualifying match on Sunday 26th February where we will be wearing the Kit and promoting the Coastguard Association. We are also looking at entering the Civil Service Sports Club Games 2017 based up at Loughbrough University to again represent both HM Coastguard and the Coastguard Association.

I have attached a picture of us all after the football match against HQ (beat them 5-1!) looking very jubilant. Kind Regards and Many Thanks – Daniel Winter

So much really good operational, prevention and fundraising work is done around the coast and then captured on Smartphones or cameras. If you have a great photo with a Coastguard theme why don’t you share with us at

pr@coastguardassociation.org.uk

Who knows, it might become our photo of the month!

Coastguard Association Support

The Coastguard Association provide a variety of support in a number of ways, we are don’t share every case that we support as those families in need do not always wish to be identified but recently we have provided financial assistance to two families who stories we can share:

A C.R.O. in the Hartlepool area – who had had an operation, he was self employed, and currently off work so was having financial difficulty.
A C.R.O. in the Rhyll area who had been made homeless, and the CGA was able to give him the assistance he required to enable him to raise a deposit for rented accommodation.

We received a lovely thank you from the Hartlepool team, and we would like to continue to wish the station officer a speedy recovery.

To enable us to continue to support our fellow Coastguards please join the CGA or purchase our 2016 Coastguard Calendar.

Welcome

2016/17 has seen many changes in UK Search & Rescue, from the closing of bases & stations, to the transfer of numerous responsibilities to the National Maritime Operations Centre (NMOC), including those of the Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC). 2017/2018 has seen those changes continue, with the addition of the Satellite Mission Control hub to the NMOC and with many changes to to Coastguard Rescue Service equipment and protocols. This year we say farewell to pagers and hello to SmartPhones for many Coastguard Rescue Officers.

The replacement of our much-loved RAF bionic budgie, RN Ace of Clubs & Coastguard S61N’s to the brand new Coastguard Helicopter fleet and repositioned bases is completed, with AW 189’s now having largely replaced the smaller AW139’s, and the S92 now all firmly established in their shiny new bases and all doing great work across the United Kingdom in the HM Coastguard livery.

But let us never forget that new buildings, technology and machines are nothing without the men and women that operate them, either remaining in service today within Future Coastguard or now watching from the sidelines having contributed so much over the years. It is unfortunate that difficulties with the recruitment and retention of new Coastguards at the NMOC continues.

The Coastguard Association are delighted to welcome you to our website and hope you can help us, help those who now have need of our support. Join today….