A donation has been agreed by Brigg Town Council to the 2222 Squadron, Brigg Air Training Corps, which has its HQ in Bridge Street.
Town councillors serving on the policy committee - meeting in the Angel Suite on Wednesday night - accepted a proposal from Coun Jenny Bell to donate £250 after receiving a request for cash aid from the organisation and considering its balance sheet.
Town Clerk Jeanette Woollard explained that after "a massive fundraising drive" the group had managed to buy itself a brand new mini-bus, for which running costs would need to be met. She thought there were now in excess of 50 cadets on the strength.
Coun Chris Pope suggested such ATC groups got less assistance than had once been the case from the RAF. "It's very much more a youth organisation than it was," he added. "It seems to be thriving."
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The ATC didn't get funding directly from the RAF. The funding, limited, as it was, came from TVAR (Terry Army & Vol Reserve). Buildings and maintenance was part of the TVAR programme..... and gliding and air experience flights formed part of the Reserve Forces' funding.
However, RAF armourers, for example, checked and maintained any firarms used by the cadets. The local 2222 Squadron has/did have a useful .22 tube range.
The Army cadets were similarly funded, but the Sea Cadets were/are a bit of an anomaly...the Sea Cadets received very little, if any funding, from the general service pot.
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