Ceremony held to officially appoint Lt-Governor’s Cadets
SIX teenagers who have been named as this year’s Lt-Governor’s Cadets received their medal and badge marking their appointment at a Government House ceremony.
Presented by Lt-Governor Lt General Richard Cripwell the awards marked the young people’s selection after being nominated by their youth organisations or their school.
The medal each cadet received was made by Bruce Russell and Son and features a green ribbon and silver clasp. They were also given a certificate and a woven badge which they will wear when on duty at the various events they will attend.
The cadets play a special role in supporting the Lt-Governor at official and public functions throughout the year.
They are chosen each summer and are appointed in September to serve for one year. Young people aged between 15 and 18 years old are eligible.
They will also have the chance to work alongside the youth forum of the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney, which is a group of young people from across the Bailiwick which represents the views of their peers on important issues to them.
One of the new cadets was Jean-Pierre ‘JP’ Lenormand, 16, whose appointment marked the first time that someone from the Guernsey Sailing Trust had been made a cadet.
‘I’m hoping to get a lot of experience and talk to lots of interesting people and go to places I wouldn’t have been before,’ he said.
Ranger Carmen Walsh from Guernsey GirlGuiding followed in the footsteps of her sister, who was a cadet two years ago, and her cousin, who was in the 2022 cohort.
‘My Ranger leader put me forward,’ she said.
‘Hopefully I’ll get some good team-building skills and communication skills and working with people I don’t know.’
Neave Chatting-Tonks chairs the Guernsey Youth Forum and said she was looking forward to representing Guernsey.
‘I’m very proud,’ she said.
‘I was over the moon when I got the phone call from Lou [Leale, CEO of the forum]. I screamed over the phone.’
