Where no Sea Cadet unit shows
This is a map, not a unit, and nobody here can sign you up. Find the nearest unit under Find a unit and ask it directly — each has its own page on the Sea Cadets’ website with its nights and how to start.
In 12 of the 174 counties and unitary authorities of England and Wales, neither record shows a Sea Cadet unit. 230,997 young people aged 10 to 18 live in them. Before either sentence is quoted anywhere, read the next one.
It does not mean young people there have nothing to join. Other cadet forces, scouts and guides, youth clubs and sports clubs are all there, and neither record here would show them. What it means is narrow: no unit on the Sea Cadets’ public finder gives an address there, and no unit charity records the area as one it works in. Both records can miss a unit that is really there.
How presence was counted
- An address — a Sea Cadet unit on the Sea Cadets’ finder gives one in the area: 150 areas.
- The register — a unit charity tells the Charity Commission it operates there: 154 areas.
Either one counts. A charity that records a whole region or country is not counted as present in any one area of it, because a charity that says it works everywhere says nothing about a particular place.
Recorded as working everywhere
Five of the network’s charities tell the register only that they work throughout a region or nation, so the register places them nowhere and they count only where they give an address. Where one of them really covers an area, this page cannot see it:
- Broughton Astley — recorded as “Throughout England”
- Chiswick — recorded as “Throughout London”
- Connahs Quay — recorded as “Throughout England And Wales”
- Medway Victory — recorded as “Throughout England And Wales”
- Whitehaven — recorded as “Throughout England And Wales”
Every area where neither record shows a Sea Cadet unit
Largest number of young people aged 10 to 18 first. Spending is what the council reported for 2024-25 under the headings named on the front page; a council reporting little here may pay for the same work from another line, so this shows the line, not the service.
| Area | Young people aged 10 to 18 | Council spending on services for young people, 2024-25 | Real-terms change since 2015-16 | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ealing | 41,205 | £2.4m | -10.9% | |
| Brent | 37,377 | £2.2m | -25.7% | |
| Redbridge | 37,342 | £1.6m | -33.1% | |
| Barking and Dagenham | 30,883 | £3.7m | +239.5% | |
| Caerphilly | 18,784 | – | – | Wales — see below |
| Wrexham | 14,254 | – | – | Wales — see below |
| Bracknell Forest | 14,167 | £1.5m | -20.7% | |
| Powys | 12,413 | – | – | Wales — see below |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 11,775 | £1.6m | -74.6% | |
| Blaenau Gwent | 6,503 | – | – | Wales — see below |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 6,157 | – | – | Wales — see below |
| Isles of Scilly | 137 | £20,513 | -88.0% |
Wales
A Sea Cadet unit shows in 17 of Wales’s 22 areas, where 81.9% of Wales’s young people aged 10 to 18 live. Welsh councils report their spending to the Welsh Government, so Wales is in every count here except the spending and the deprivation comparison.
What else to know
- The count of young people aged 10 to 18 is from census day, 21 March 2021. The spending is from 2024-25. Both are the latest there are.
- Some councils cannot be compared across the years. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset were redrawn in 2019, and North and West Northamptonshire were one county until 2021. Their spending is in the totals for England, but no change is shown for them alone.
- Area figures add up to slightly more or less than the national figure (6,303,190 against 6,303,190), because the statistics office adjusts small numbers to protect people’s privacy.