The Unique Selling Point of the air cadet organisation is (or used to be) that it offers youngsters the opportunity to learn to fly gliders at their local gliding site.
'Regional Centres of Excellence', gliding 'simulators', 'cyber courses', 'battle management courses' etc. are hardly going to be of much interest to youngsters who simply want to learn to fly a glider and get a taste of service life..... Or to their parents?
Out of interest, has anyone been told what the actual cost of recovery to the pre-2014 state would have been?