On Saturday 28 th March, cadets and staff from 487 Sqn Kingstanding and Perry Barr ATC joined other cadet units and the emergency services at the Kingstanding Community Day.

The event at the Burford Playing fields was organised by the Kingstanding Community Police officers. The Police were there in great strength; they displayed many differing types of vehicles and also gave a Police dog demonstration. The local Fire Service was also represented and they gave a demonstration of fire fighting and also cutting a person out of a bad car crash.

Cadets from the Navy, Army and RAF were represented, along with the Royal Marine Cadets. The Regular Army, Royal Navy and Royal Marines were also represented.

487 Sqn made use of the Wing recruitment caravan and this ensured that we could not only play the ATC recruitment videos, but also the latest RAF presentations. Unfortunately, the day proved to be very wet, windy and cold and the public did not attend in their masses!

Plt Off Jennings, 487 Sqn Adj commented “Although the day was not busy, I think we represented both the ATC and the RAF extremely well. The cadets did a great job despite the weather and we handed out a good deal of promotional material, mainly to children around 8 years of age! However, we did talk to a good number of parents who didn’t seem to know just how close the Sqn is to the playing fields-hope for the future”