Tony Ray has managed to have the Association added to the list of organisations to be allocated places for the parade past the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day next year. Tony will be the lead contact.

The 7th Southampton (Bassett) Scout Group have a memorial award dedicated to Lt Cdr John Sephton DFC called the 'John Sephton Award' that is awarded for personal endeavour to those who show bravery and continue to take part in Scouting through difficult times in their life.

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.

The Association is excited to announce that after an extensive refurbishment period, lasting from June 2020 to January 2021, to support the new Type 26 Frigate build programme, the current ‘Dauntless’ building will be renamed ARDENT after the Type 21 frigate.

Social distancing means we can not be together in person this year to remember them but that does not stop us in the virtual world. Shipmate Stephen Earp, with his 2 daughters, carried out a private floral tribute to our shipmates in the Rose Garden on Plymouth Hoe.