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Westminster Award 2026 Selection Special
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Deep in the heart of leafy Somerset, 32 candidates gathered at the Mill-On-The-Brue outdoor activity centre for the 2026 Westminster Award selection event.
How did they do? Find out here in our podcast special…
It was the hottest day of the year so far, the April sunshine beaming down on the gorgeously leafy Somerset location of Mill on the Brew. It's time once more for the selection process to begin for the 2026 Westminster Awards. This bonus podcast will give you the chance to meet some of the cadets in this year's competition. After this week, there'll be ten names going through as finalists. But what a few days they have before that happens. The Mill on the Brew will see some great team building exercise. The gun run, along with its cheeky few additional challenges thrown in to really push the cadets to think, communicate and rise to the occasion. There'll be an assault course, bridge building, and plenty more fun and games to really bring out the best in these 32 young people. Without further ado, let's get on and meet some of the candidates and follow them as they take on the first day of tasks.
SPEAKER_14This is less new.
SPEAKER_02I'm Lily Dylan and I'm from Murfield, so nearby Leeds. And I'm from 868 Murfield Squadrons.
SPEAKER_03My name's Sebastian Rag and I'm from Rotherham. My name's Oliver, and I'm from Altringham. I'm a lead cadet with St. John Ambulance.
SPEAKER_02Hi, I'm Alana. I'm from St John Ambulance Cadets. My name's Sarah Ellen Armstrong, I'm from TS Indomitable Long East and Sea Cadets. Hi, my name is Leah and I'm from Scouting. I'm a young leader.
SPEAKER_06I'm Edmund Jackson, I'm from Air Cadets 2 from Mine Squadron.
SPEAKER_16My name's Emily Montague and I'm from Essex Army Cadet Force.
SPEAKER_05Um I'm Samic, I'm from Leicester Unit, part of Sea Cadets. I'm Oliver, I'm from Huddersfield, Air Cadets.
SPEAKER_16Hi, I'm Zoe Toms, and I'm from Vantage Army Cadets. My name's Olivia Sneddon and I'm from Bedston Hearts ACF. I'm Lisa Cooks and I'm from Bournemouth. I do Dorset Army Cadet Force.
SPEAKER_01I'm Drew Ringrose, I'm from 2515 Squadron Ringwood and Fordingbridge, so Air Cadets live in Dorset.
SPEAKER_09My name is Ruby Blair and I'm from Ashby, but my cadets is in swaddling coat.
SPEAKER_02So I'm Ruby Holiday and I'm from about 20 minutes away. I am from St John Ambulance. Um Cadet Corporal. Uh hi, I'm Hannah Wright, and I'm from Colchester Unit in St John Ambulance.
SPEAKER_15What a glorious day. Apparently it's going to be the hottest day of the year so far. We're here at Mill on the Brew in Somerset. I mean it couldn't be nicer for the sort of opening day for these cadets, could it?
SPEAKER_00No, and you're so right, it's a glorious day. We we have been down at Mill on the Brew for a number of years. We've had torrential rain, we've had snow even. But to come down almost an early summer's day is wonderful, and you just you marvel at the countryside, you marvel at the the scenery, the setting, and you just think, what a privilege to be here and with amazing young people.
SPEAKER_15Talking about those young people, they've just done their gun running exercise. They with the with it's already fairly warm this morning, so they've uh they've been building up a sweat, they've there've been lots of cheers, lots of support, lots of motivation, which kind of sums up what this is all about. But explain to me why we're here for for this week.
SPEAKER_00We're here because we're looking for exceptional young people. And these are young people who are not exceptional in their own uniform youth organization doing what they excel at within that organisation, but they're here because they're much more than that. If you like, it's the next level up, it's the next layer. These are people who are offering back to society from wherever they are, and we're not we're not looking at great marvellous inventions and things like that. We're looking for people who are thinking beyond the box who don't say this is me and I'm very good in my little field, but I want to do that, I want to make a difference. So, in a way, that's what we're looking for.
SPEAKER_15So there are various ambassadors. We've got last year's Westminster winner, we've got um one of the finalists from 2024, various people watching over as they're doing all their tasks. So, what are you kind of watching for? Because sometimes it's the it may not be the loudest shouter, it may be somebody else who's lending something to that that syndicate.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely, and I think there's two things you you mentioned there: the ambassadors coming back, they are a key essential ingredient to us being here because some argue I'm getting a bit old now. Never. I I know I that's what I feel, but however, they do argue that point. And I need somebody who's done it recently, who understands what they're going through, who can just put a hand on my shoulder and say, Look, that person's struggling a bit, just watch them. They have that insight which we don't have, and also they're that wonderful link so that the young person can go and talk to them, and of course, this person has unrestricted access to me and doesn't think, gosh, I'm gonna harm my chances because of course they're an ambassador. We're looking for somebody who understands when to step up and when to help, when to lead the team and when to be a strong supporter of that team. It's knowing the difference. They they learn about leadership, they do an ILM level three in leadership and management, and they learn the different leadership styles. Many of them only come with one style that strong, authoritarian shouting, follow me, do this, because in a way that's what they're taught. And it's the first one that you assume when you're young, is that's how you lead a team by being noisy, shouty, and all I hope is that they from themselves will come away learning the different styles of behaviour for different somesses, learning how to help other people to spot other people need help, and we're looking for the person who has that insight into doing that, which is why you don't need to have uh huge qualifications, and it doesn't matter whether you have any qualification or not, these are inbuilt skills which an employer wants, and this is all about helping them go to the next step where they want to be in their lives.
SPEAKER_15What happens after this week? Where does it go from here?
SPEAKER_00Uh it's rather exciting, really, because at the end of this week we sit down and there's ten of us or so, and each of us scores every individual. That's a pretty fair system. From there, and we invite those ten to come with us somewhere new this year. We're we're going somewhere new, very exciting. We're going up to the Lake District, which is uh part of what I don't know, so I'm really excited as well. We're going to be doing the same sorts of activities we've done elsewhere, but in a new environment. So there'll be a mixture of putting them outside their comfort zone, they're going to get a mixture of new experiences, new challenges, and again, I'm looking for almost the same qualities we're looking for here, but we're now sort of focusing down, and there's dare I say, use that rather hackney phrase, there's no place to hide. There isn't a place to hide, but they don't need to hide because actually the person who wins is often not the one they think will win because they sometimes misjudge what we're looking for.
SPEAKER_11So they are doing a trust exercise at the moment, uh, where they intend to sit on the knees of the person behind them while also letting the person in front of them sit on their knees, which should be quite easy. Um but if they fail, they will end up on the floor.
SPEAKER_15In a circle, shoulder to shoulder, then they turn to their left and then they sit down. That's it. Yeah, easier said than none. You put them in two, four little groups, two big groups now. Okay, let's go.
SPEAKER_12So if you turn to your left this time and take a step inwards. Okay. One, two, three. Very good. Stand yourselves up. And then let's move one.
SPEAKER_02I'm Sarah Ellen Armstrong, and I'm from T.S. Indomitable Long Eat and Seeker. That's first team winning. Well done. I'm out of breath. Just talking to you. Oh my gosh. It's it's so fun though. Oh my god, I'm running, I feel like I'm sweating to death, honestly. Well, you are because it's a absolutely glorious day. It's meant to be the hottest day of the year so far. It's amazing. Have you felt after that exercise? I'm I love it, honestly. It's so fun. Everyone's like clearing each other on, and it's amazing. And you can just, I feel really like a sense of camaraderie almost. And everyone's getting along so well already. It's like the first actual day, and it's just so much fun. How special is it to be here for the Westminster Awards? Honestly, it's amazing. I never thought this opportunity would be. I didn't even know this opportunity existed, and it's it's so wonderful to actually be able to be here and have this opportunity. And the people, the people here, they're so amazing. I'm meeting so many new people with so many different lives and interests, and it's just wonderful hearing about what they do in their cadets, what they do outside of cadets. And it's just, oh my gosh, I love it. So, what why why cadets for you? For me, I I really had really bad anxiety when I was younger, and I moved house as well. And when I moved house, I had no friends, I didn't know anyone. I was very anxious or so. And there's a carnival that goes through where I live, and it was right outside my house. I saw the cadets and I went, that looks amazing. And I joined them to make friends and meet new people and have some opportunities to get outside my house a bit more and go out in the world, what something I was really shy and struggled to do when I was younger.
SPEAKER_15So that must be really inspiring. Do you help other people now that you're that you've started on that journey?
SPEAKER_02Yes, I really try to get people to join cadets. I try to inspire them to join extracurriculars because I think it's amazing what you can do with just trying out an after-school club, technically. And it's I I've found so many amazing things to do skills. I've made so many amazing friends, and I've done so much that I would have never done if I couldn't do it. I really try to get other people to try and do it, especially if they struggle with anxiety or struggle to make friends, it's somewhere that you're you're always going to make friends, you're always gonna meet people just like you that want to do some stuff that's similar to you. And this is really pushing you, isn't it?
SPEAKER_15I mean, that all those all those uh sort of motivate you want motivation, communication, support, all the things that you you need to bring that gun around the assault course. I mean, that's that's kind of just a teamwork in itself, isn't it? Yes, definitely.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. And I really love my team. We're already like really close and we're we're really good at communicating and discussing and helping each other and aspiring, and we try to help everyone else around us as well if we can. And it's just this, although it's pushing me to some of my limits as I don't do this very often as I'm a I'm a sea cadet, so we don't do as much running and field craft. It's still amazing, I guess, to do this and have fun with people that love doing stuff that are similar. Well, you were very good at the swimming part of this, the lamb swimming from a sea cadet. That was excellent. I did my like my best at doing a breaststroke, you know, guys, as best I can. It was very good. I know that you got a few claps and cheers for that. Well, well done, congratulations very much.
SPEAKER_12Three, two, one, go!
SPEAKER_02Hi, Milana, I'm from St. John, Ambulance Cadets.
SPEAKER_15Um I hear that you're um the trilogy of the Dixon clan. Yes, yeah. The third one to come through this. Your sister was here last year, wasn't she? Yes. And then another sister, when was that? The year before? Yes, 2024. So do you feel any pressure here?
SPEAKER_02Not that you should, but you know, it's a family tradition, really. Um, a little bit. I'm excited to be here. My sister said it's really good, so I'm just happy to be here, really. What do you love about the cadets? Um, just like teamwork and everything, like meeting new people. Um, yeah, really nice.
SPEAKER_15And here, so I've grabbed you just as you're out of breath, unfortunately. So I'm sorry about this. It's a glorious day, isn't it? It's lovely.
SPEAKER_02Tell me about the task that you've just done and what you've learned from it. So we've been building like cannons together, we've got to like undo them, put them together, and we've done it twice. And the second time people have been blindfolded, so it's like harder, but we've got to guide each other, help each other, navigate through different obstacles and stuff like that. So it's been fun, yeah.
SPEAKER_15And you've won your third, this is the third time you've um you've won here, hasn't it? This is your team won three times, or is that the first win for you? No, three times. Three times, yes it is. Yeah, you were looking at me blank then, and I was thinking, yeah, yeah, no, you've won the three all three times. You're clearly getting something right. You're very, you're very quick, you communicate well. You know, what else?
SPEAKER_02What else is the secret? Um, I guess just well, each of us have like a different section to it. So someone on the wheels, um, someone taking it along. Like, we all have different sections, so it's easy to work together and communicate.
SPEAKER_15And it's lovely, some of the teams have struggled a little bit, and then everybody then from the teams that have finished, go over and support them.
SPEAKER_02That's a lovely thing to see. It's it's really good because it encourages them to finish the yen. Like, just because you might be the last team doesn't mean like you're the worst. Everyone's got like different abilities, so as long as everyone like gets through it, it's really good. Yeah.
SPEAKER_15So obviously, because of your family connection, that's why you love cadets, but you know, what what made you then you don't have to do that, obviously.
SPEAKER_02What made you want to? Um, well, cadets is just a nice like central ambulance. You learn first aid, it's like really good skills to have for the future. Um, yeah, that's why I wanted to do it. Because yeah.
SPEAKER_15And um future, what's it going to, you know, you you're obviously you're young enough to know you can change your mind a hundred times if you want. But do you do you have an idea what you want to do?
SPEAKER_02I'm more of like a creative person. Like my other sisters, they know what set they want to do. Um, but for me, honestly, I don't know what I want to do, but I know like skills like this will just help me in the future. And what are you doing now as well? At school, college? I'm at c uh A levels, so just school, yeah.
SPEAKER_15Great. And then what about your syndicate? You you're making friends here, it's it's uh it's hopefully you'll keep in touch as well.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no, definitely. It's really nice to make new, like meet new people. Hopefully we'll stay in touch, which is good. But yeah, it's been really nice. Enjoy the rest of your time here. Thanks so much. Thank you, thank you. Hi, I'm Charlotte. Um I'm the winner from 2025 Westminster Awards. Does this bring back memories, Charlotte? Yeah, it does. Lots of good ones.
SPEAKER_15And you're here as an ambassador this year, then?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, I'm here to help out and like um help all the 2026 people through, and yeah, it should be good. Tell me what it brings back where they are in their heads right now with this stuff uh opening morning at the mill. Yeah, I mean, I they're having their photo taken at the moment, and I remember standing at the front last year, like little nervous me, and just sort of stood there smiling, and yeah, it's bringing back loads of good memories. What are you gonna give them as advice? I think just be yourself. We can see through if you're trying to be someone you're not, so just smile, be yourself, be happy, and just give everything you can. So tell me about your life then in the last year since the uh since the finals last year. So I aged out of the army cadets in November. That was quite sad. Four and a half years of my life is just kind of gone. But it's it's still like all the good memories. Um, just yeah, just remembering them, all the good times I had, and then I'm just working for my A levels now. So yeah, brilliant.
SPEAKER_15Well, well done. We'll get on with this, but have a lovely couple of days here. Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER_05Mattel, I'm from Leicester Unit Sea Cadets. I think everyone's working together really well. Um, we're all supporting each other and we're all having a great time. Feel really great, I feel really proud of myself. Um, it's really nice to meet new people, everyone's come from different backgrounds. It's nice to just meet everyone else and have a good time. I'm a PO cadet. So my role now is to teach others and pass on my skills, which I really enjoy because I feel like it's really important as a senior cadet at my unit that I have to teach the others to become PO cadets themselves. Alongside cadets, um do my A levels, um, and then I do some tutoring. I tutor a child with um send, so special educational needs and disabilities. Um, and I'm also I also do a bit of art on the side. I feel like I'm really creative and yeah.
SPEAKER_15What got you into teaching and getting into that side of things? That's that's must be really rewarding.
SPEAKER_05All started in year six when I volunteered to work in um the Golden Room, which we worked with um kids with special needs, and I felt like it's really important that they get the same opportunity as we do because they have the same potential as us. Um they just need a bit of pushing, and I feel like the progress the child's made that I've been tutoring is great and it's just really rewarding to feel that.
SPEAKER_15I mean that's that's really lovely, and then that that sort of brings on your communication skills and your supportive skills and all the rest of it is what you're kind of building on here as well, isn't it?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, they're things I can transfer into basically anywhere. Um, job interviews, working in a team, anything really. So yeah, I love um learning transferable skills because they're things that are going to help us in the future.
SPEAKER_15But certainly people went through your paces, haven't you, just then?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, well, I think I'm finding it fun. It's fun, it's something different.
SPEAKER_15Well, you're weird, your team has won. It's is that for the second time as well? Amazing. I mean, what did you learn from that?
SPEAKER_07I think our assigning of roles was really good, having a specific role so that everyone knew what they were doing. Uh, we also had a motivation throughout, so we all motivated each other keeping it up to scratch. Whenever someone was slowing down, we would if we were free, we would go in and support them, just making sure that we were lifting each other up. So that teamwork, that establishing of us together, I think that's really good.
SPEAKER_15And the communication as well, that's key.
SPEAKER_07The communication was really, yeah.
SPEAKER_15What do you love about the the cadets in particular?
SPEAKER_07I think my favourite part is uh teaching, actually. I quite like working with uh the uh young people make sure because I was in the position that they were before, and now being able to deliver the lessons now. I think that's my favourite parts.
SPEAKER_15And coming here to Mill on the Brew, this is quite special, isn't it?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I think this is a unique experience. I'm the only one on my squadron who's ever done it, so amazing.
SPEAKER_15So, what support did you have back home to to kind of come here?
SPEAKER_07Uh my NCO team, they all helped me, uh, gave me encouragement, they all gave me tips and tricks that they I'll need. But yeah, it was all support, especially from my uh staff and officers.
SPEAKER_15And your syndicate here, you've got a lot of support. You've only got like less than 24 hours, haven't you? Yeah, um, and it's three, it's good.
SPEAKER_07They're all brilliant. So we work, we mesh well as together.
SPEAKER_15Brilliant. Well done, congratulations on your second win.
SPEAKER_07Yes, thank you.
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SPEAKER_07Yeah, really good time, guys. Go, guys. That's the spirits.
SPEAKER_15Michelle, here at Mill on the Brew, it's glorious day. What do you make of this whole week? What springs into your mind when this time of year comes around?
SPEAKER_10Um, well, this has to be one of my favourite weeks of the year because it's one of the only times that I actually get out of the office and meet some of our learners. Um, so it's just lovely to come and see everything we do and see it in action and you know, spend some time actually with the learners because I am stuck behind an office desk most of the year.
SPEAKER_15Yeah. They've just completed their first sort of morning tasks, it'll go on now. From your point of view, selecting those candidates that might will go through to the finals, how difficult is that? Well, what are you looking for in your mind?
SPEAKER_10It's very difficult and it gets more and more difficult each year. So I found um that as time's gone on, it it's it has become more and more difficult. It is a competition, but you don't really see it amongst the young people now. We used to years ago, people were watching us all the time, putting a show on when we were there. So whether the messages got through or just this generation's slightly different, I don't know. Um, it it is difficult. We usually manage to come to a consensus on you know the those that definitely and those that definitely not, but it's those in the middle we can have long conversations about them. And this year we've added an extra day on because some of the most years Guy and I are stuck doing the interviews, we don't actually get to see them in action very much, so we've got an echo we've got a whole of today to wander around and just start looking at people, and because it's so difficult, we're actually going to have uh sort of formal chats with the teams, not just on the last day, um, because we have we we found it very difficult some years. Yeah. So you've adapted that throughout the throughout the session, throughout the years that this has been going. We have. We do have a more formalised marking scheme now so that we all know what we're looking for, so it's not just a case of you kind of like that person, so you want them to go through. We sort of, you know, mark them and assess them on lots of different things. I mean, even when we're not doing this competition and when we're just out and about, we're finding more and more cadet units want us to go in and want to do face-to-face, and we're trying to do more days and weekends, you know, because that that's what the learners want. And actually, I think you see the best of them when they're out in the open, because they'll go into the classrooms and do some work, but then they come out here and well, especially today in this glorious sunshine.
SPEAKER_14Right, another puzzle come around! Start assembling it.
SPEAKER_12So before we get going, just a couple of safety things. Although this is a competition.
SPEAKER_15If you've just heard your instructions, you're holding Squeaky Pig number one. Well, it might be. You've got three squeakies, haven't you? You're holding squeaky pig number one. What are you gonna do with squeaky pig number one?
SPEAKER_08Protect him with my life and make sure he doesn't squeak for the next half an hour.
SPEAKER_15And how are you feeling about this task?
SPEAKER_08Um, it's gonna take a lot of energy, but I I think it'll be it'll be alright, yeah.
SPEAKER_15How are you feeling about your team? Are they gonna support you? Are you gonna support them?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I think my team's we've gelled together quite well, so I think we'll give it encourage a lot of motivation and stuff. So I'm very proud of my team. Like we all decide we all by the end of it, we all got together really well or figured out what our roles were within the team.
SPEAKER_15And what was your role?
SPEAKER_08Uh, pig protector and just helping if anything gets stuck.
SPEAKER_15I think I actually heard you refer to Formula One and Pit Stops for such one.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, so I just think uh pit stops and formula one, they've got one person doing each thing and it all worked together in a team to get it done really fast.
SPEAKER_15And Piggy stayed on top.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, Piggy did stay on top. Takes to do with my life.
SPEAKER_03Just don't do it for RA, it's fine.
SPEAKER_15That was quite nice at the end because one of the teams was struggling a bit or had some time pressures, but everyone came together, didn't they?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, because that's what it's all about. It's all about supporting each other and getting each other to the end. Quite nice seeing like meeting other people from other backgrounds. I I do like to meet other people from different areas and stuff. It's good to get and uh get to know what people are like from like other like cadet forces like the Air Cadets and the St. John's cadets, which we don't usually get to in Army Cadets, so it's about nice.
SPEAKER_15What is it about army cadets that you like so much?
SPEAKER_08You get to basically do a bit of everything, and then so I think it's just gives us all those skills that we can use in the future.
SPEAKER_15Well done for today.
SPEAKER_08Thank you.
unknownI've got them out on both sides.
SPEAKER_06I'm Silas, I'm from Kent, so down south.
SPEAKER_15Tell me about this gun running exercise you've just done. Your team's just won.
SPEAKER_06Oh, we we have indeed, it's been absolutely brilliant. It's been really good fun. You've been doing all different obstacles.
SPEAKER_15It's a lovely day here. I mean I'm catching you now you're out of breath but what have you learned in that in that exercise?
SPEAKER_06Oh definitely that's sort of how we can split the team up and work efficiently and quickly uh as sort of one unit just flowing through each of the exercises it's been really good to to practice that.
SPEAKER_15I mean you only got here yesterday didn't you so you know trying to get your team all together and it's been it's that's quite a challenge in itself isn't it?
SPEAKER_06Yes it has been yeah we only met the rest of our our syndicate sort of last night but it's been really nice to meet some of the the different people here and and make some friends it's been really good fun. So far so good and you've got more to come this is the second team through what um what do you like about the um the cadets that the scouts that you particularly you know enjoy so it's definitely this the the level of opportunity and and development as well being able to learn all these different skills um through many of the programs but also meet people and see how you can learn from different people and sort of against the clock and stuff it's it's really good fun. Amazing what do you think of the Westminster awards in total I think it's a brilliant opportunity really good to sort of challenge yourself and develop these key skills it's it's wonderful.
SPEAKER_04Hello uh I'm Hanam Singh I was a finalist on the 2024 Westminster Award and I've come back as an ambassador this year.
SPEAKER_15How's it feeling being on the other side?
SPEAKER_04Different very different I remember coming in back in 24 and I was absolutely terrified but um on this side it's a bit more friendly and a bit less intimidating and I feel like it's like being like a a a royal overlord sort of thing.
SPEAKER_15That's the best way to think about it pulling strings of sorts but yeah what are you making of of all of our 32 I think we've got here what are you making of them so far?
SPEAKER_04Good bunch to be fair I think my syndicate are a good group uh we had a nice sort of chat before we finished up last night and uh we feel like it'd be a very entertaining week and uh I'll have plenty to observe.
SPEAKER_15Yeah. Which syndicate have you got have they won yet?
SPEAKER_04Uh we have Syndicate A we came second on the last round of the gun run.
SPEAKER_15Brilliant. Yeah yeah there's always room for improvement always always always it's a taking part as well it's what they're learning going round. What's life like for you now after 2024?
SPEAKER_04Um so I took a gap year after 2024 because I finished my A levels and I'm currently on an engineering degree apprenticeship uh working in Gloucester uh for a company called GTEM and yeah I'm living away from home loving life coming back to help out yeah I'm having a great time and the skills that you've taken from these experiences oh but like bang on so I uh I applied for 126 or some some somewhere in that region of degree apprenticeships in my gap yeah um and one of the big key focus of focuses of all the 15 odd interviews I did were uh a lot of the qualifications that I've done and two of which I've done through C V College which were you know invaluable to me and uh it's definitely something that I use at work on a daily basis now understanding team dynamics and uh yeah day-to-day life or invaluable skills that you learn yeah yeah that's the one so going forward from these what are you gonna tell your syndicate the what you what you've seen what advice are you gonna give them for the the the rest of the tasks I think I I'll stick with what I've said to them before and that just just be yourself and throughout the week we'll see all sides of you a week's a a long a long piece of time to get an impression on someone and uh as as the week goes on more of their character of show.
SPEAKER_13So you're all gonna start at the same time and you're all starting from here.
SPEAKER_16You've just had your instructions how are you feeling about them? I think we're a good team already we we've had a lot of social time we're good mates.
SPEAKER_15Save the pig yeah save the pig save the pig this is squeaky pig number yeah this is another squeaky pig so your your task is to keep squeaky pig above at all times. Yeah and to stop Mr Squeaking oh okay that's very good can I have a whoop whoop or cheer before you go well I think it's safe to say the cadets are having a wonderful time learning and growing with each challenge they're set. We wish them all the very best of luck with the Westminster selection process and look forward to seeing who goes through to the final ten in the lakes. Of course then we'll see those finalists later on in the year when we head to the House of Lords for the final in September. Good luck to you all and thank you for listening. This has been a bonus edition of the Cadet to Career podcast series produced by Create Media. I'm Laura Cook and the editor has been Matt Jones.