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Remembrance Booklet 2018 Please take a look at our Weekly Vlog, it encapsulates our highlights from colleges all over England and Wales during Remembrance Weekend. We are always very proud of our Learner contribution at this poignant time and this Vlog demonstrates perfectly why.

This week’s Vlog encapsulates the World Mental Health Day “Into the Light” challenge that South Wales MPCT Learners completed on the 10th of October this year. It was a hugely successful event, and due to this and the amazing amounts of money raised by the Learners for our charity the Motivation & Learning Trust, MPCT...

Learner Shannon Maloney of Military Preparation College Croydon has achieved a silver medal in the World Kickboxing Championships. Her mother wrote into the college to thank them for allowing her to pursue her kickboxing career and supporting her along the way. Learner Maloney wrote to MPC Croydon with these words Last week I took part...

On Saturday 3rd November, 8 selected Learners from MPCT Cardiff attended and played a significant role in the Festival Of Remembrance. Watched by MPCT’s Managing Director Huw Lewis MBE, Learners proudly carried the MPCT flags and Learner Farrah played a hugely important part in her deliverance of the Reading of The Youth. Well done to...

In the run up to this year’s Remembrance Day, The Royal British Legion have made a video depicting highlights from last year’s Remembrance period, and MPCT feature heavily! We are so proud of the input from our Learners across our 30 colleges, input which grows each year. Click HERE for the full video on The Royal...

Please take a look at this week’s Vlog which shows the Welsh Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal Launch that happened on Friday 26th of October, 2018 at Cardiff Castle. For more information about what Remembrance means to MPCT, take a look at our Remembrance Booklet below.   CLICK HERE

On the 5th of October, the two buses carrying Military Preparation College Learners from Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Bridgend, Merthyr-Tydfil, Bangor, Wrexham and Liverpool departed early-morning for Folkstone to board the Eurotunnel. On arrival in Calais in the late afternoon, MPCT Staff ensured a swift check-in to the Poppies Hotel Albert from which the party departed...

Last week marked the start of the start of The Royal British Legion’s 2018 Poppy Appeal, and our Learners were there in force to support. Antony Metcalfe, the Area Manager for the Welsh Branch of The Royal British Legion with whom we work closely with had this to say about us… Please watch!    ...

On Friday the 26th of October 2018, 25 MPCT Learners from our Military Preparation College in Cardiff took part in the official launch of the Poppy Appeal hosted by the Royal British Legion. The event was a sentimental one, with WW1 replica graves in place in the grounds of the castle due to the 100...