South East Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Association (SE RFCA) is one of 13 RFCAs UK-wide, SERFCA is a Ministry of Defence (MOD) Crown body, responsible to the Defence Council, but separate from military chains-of-command. SE RFCA gives support to the Reserve Forces and Cadets from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force in the Counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, East and West Sussex. The majority of the Association comprises volunteers, presided over by the Lord-Lieutenant of each County, ranging from high-ranking serving and retired military Officers, through local Councillors to enthusiastic locals, with no military experience, but with a will to support the Armed Forces and Cadets; so it can be seen that the Association has close links with the Community because it is part of that Community.  In short, the main roles of SERFCA are:

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  Managing the volunteer estate (Reserve and Cadet Training Centres). Through the building new centres, maintaining current ones to the required legal standards and ensuring that all sites are kept in good order, fit for purpose and secure. SERFCA as an organisation aims to provide an attractive environment in which to recruit and train. SERFCA is responsible for the upkeep of 29 Army Reserve Centre's, 7 Careers Offices and University Officer Training Units (which are tri-service), 264 Cadet Centres including 58 Joint Cadet Centres, 7 Cadet Training Centres all on behalf of the MOD. Along with our own estate Jersey Camp on the Isle of Wight.   


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  Encouraging support for the Reserves and Cadets through engagement events, briefings, awards evenings, social media and other publicity, allowing us to actively inform, influence, engage and create a positive but lasting change with gatekeepers and others who hold influence within their county. This includes giving support to, in particular, Reservists by engaging with Employers and supporting Employers of Reservists who seek more information or who have Reservist  Employees deployed on operations.


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  Supporting Cadets Each year the Combined Cadet Force, Volunteer Cadet Corps, Sea Cadet Corps, Army Cadet Force and Royal Air Force Air Cadets encourage thousands of Cadets and Cadet Force Adult Volunteer's develop qualifications, soft skill's, a good work ethic and a positive outlook on both life and work. We as SERFCA promote and support the permanent Army Cadet Force staff and also promote the Cadet Experience and support for Cadets and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers from all five cadet forces. 




• The Reservists and Cadets are under command of their respective military chains-of-command, but the Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Associations support the MOD by providing an independent view on the state of the Reserves and Cadets, and their issues, recommending solutions through annual statutory reports to Ministers.
  

To be an enduring and essential pillar in the delivery of support for the well-being of the Reserves and Cadets and, through our effectiveness and our position in the regions, to be the independent body that represents their interests and promotes understanding between the Armed Forces and civil society.

Address: Seely House
Shoe Lane
Aldershot
Hampshire
GU11 2HJ
Phone: 01252 357606 
E-Mail: se-info@rfca.mod.uk

Accessibility statement for serfca.org
This accessibility statement applies to the website of The South East Reserve Forces and Cadets Association: serfca.org

This website is run by our in-house Communications team. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website.

How accessible this website is
We know a small amount of content on this website is not fully accessible:

* Your screen reader may not be able to read some of the older PDF documents still stored on our website.

* Some older images may not have alternative text descriptions.

* We have on occasion embedded videos from YouTube, produced by other organisations, into articles on our website, to which subtitles were not added and for which there is little description in the accompanying text.

Feedback and contact information
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

* email us at se-info@rfca.mod.uk
* call us on 01252 357604

Enforcement procedure
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Non-accessible content

Disproportionate burden

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Some images do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. 

Any images which do not contain alternative text descriptions are from past news articles, which are not essential for users to access our services and serve only to illustrate the text. It would be a disproportionate burden to our small team, at the current time, to add alternative text descriptions to all images.

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PDFs and other documents
Some of our older PDFs and Word documents may not work with screen readers.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. 

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Live video
We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility
When we publish new content, we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards, and will begin a process of continuous improvement to add alternative text descriptions to all images on our website.