COVID and lockdowns were hard on youth organisations like T.S. Ardent but they are back to business as usual and in a newly refreshed home for the cadets.

Ken Enticknap from The HMS Ardent Association presented challenge coins to the members of the Royal Navy Sea Survival Training Centre (Ardent Building) on the 1 September 2021. This was in recognition of their fund raising in recognition of their fundraising efforts for the RNRMC in March 2021 whilst completing the virtual return distance between SSTCs Ardent building in Portsmouth and the HMS Ardent memorial in Stafford.

BAE Systems are provisionally supporting a project as is the developer of Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow to bring a Type 21 home from Pakistan and make it part of the maritime attractions at a Govan Docks in the Clyde.

Alan Ewart is an ex-matelot who is now a commercial photographer and is looking for 40 volunteers from those who served during the Falklands Conflict to create a photographic body of work that features Falkland veterans in time for the 40th anniversary in 2022.

Shipmate Dickie Henderson, and his work colleague Kevin Maxted recently carried out much need repairs to the HMS Ardent Association Anchor memorial at the National Arboretum.

News from around the UK of Remembrance Day tributes to HMS Ardent crew killed in action.