Picture Set 6
Our best year, so far, at the Nationals,
was 2004 when we were named Area Champions and won a special award, the Jubilee
Cup (a celebration routine to mark the UKFM Nationals’ 25th Year At Pontins,
Camber Sands), from a combined routine with the Silver Spinners and Ipswich
Diamonds, designed by Georgina Head, and
gained the honour of having the founding member of our Troupe, Cerys, named
Miss Deputy UKFM at the age of 15 
At the interim Nationals held in
October 2005, 13 girls came away with 22 prizes – a great result against huge
competition.
Our proudest moment from the competition –
WE WON BIG SILKS SENIOR (something we have been trying to do for 3
years!). We gained 5 1st
places, 5 2nd places, 5 3rd places and 7 runner ups!
At the Nationals in April 2006 eleven
members attended and came away with 30 prizes between them – not bad for a
small Troupe. Our proudest moments –
coming 3rd in Mace Groups at our second attempt of entering this
category, coming 1st in the Novelty display and having several of
the competitors improving exponentially over their last outings.
At the 2007
Nationals our only two 2 baton entries (George and Cerys) came 1st
and 2nd and Cerys 1st again with her duo partner,
Georgina Head. Sam became Colour Guard
(our third for the troupe), six girls gaining places in their baton solos at
all levels, group success for Majorette Senior, Military Junior and Junior
Beginner Baton, 10 P&P and Princess places and best of all Cerys came 1st
in the Challenge Duo with Leanne of Dacorum (names for partners are drawn out
of a hat and they have a day to prepare a baton duo of a very high standard to
dubious music out of a hat!)
At the most recent Nationals in
April 2008 thirteen members attended and came away with 16 prizes between them
– not bad for a small Troupe. Our
proudest moments – Oh so many … The parents and adult siblings getting 3rd
place in Adult Novelty, despite Jo having a broken hand (as she found out when
we took her off to hospital after the event)!
The Beginner Twirl Trio of Beth, Sophie and Stacey getting 1st
Place at their first attempt of entering this category, Cerys (with Leanne of
Dacorum) coming 3rd in the Championship Duo, and in Lead Girl, Flag Solo and
Majorette March. George and Lisa getting
a 2nd and 3rd for Military March and the Junior Military
Group of Abbie, Brooke, Stacey and Sophie gaining a Nationals 2nd
Place. Gabi getting 3rd Place at Beginner twirl first time out,
Brooke getting 3rd place for her Novice Solo and Hannah (at her
first Nationals) gaining a 1st at Novice Solo, and a 2nd
with an innovative Nursery Rhyme routine twirling a tea towel! All of the competitors improved over their
last outings and received 16 Runner Up prizes between them too as well – Well
Done to you all!

Kirsty received a special trophy,
the Lisa Fox Trophy, for her selfless actions in running for help for an Adult
Novelty member who had fainted (and we learned later after she had insisted on
taking part in the routine had broken her hand in the fall) and in the process
had tripped up herself and ended up on crutches and out of the rest of the
National competitions.