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Results and Outcomes

Our three year evaluation of the Academy in England, along with an active research project (funded by the MacTaggart Trust) delivering the Dreamstore Education Action Zone, has identified that there is considerable value in developing a series of regional Academies rather than a single centre course.

In effect we are seeking to 'cluster' coaching development, building core teams around the country. This supports more effective delivery of local service and facilitation of support to larger programmes that demand intensive coaching support (such as EAZ), or are demand led (such as the Breckland Angling Coaching Club). Alternatively, we would especially support a 'centre' from which we could generate interest within a particular community/organisation (such as the Royal National College for the Blind).

This approach is supported by the year on year cumulative results/outcomes of each of our Academies to date:

British Disabled Angling Association Disability
Lord Williams School, Thame Young people
Warrington Anglers Association Women
Priory Hall Youth Centre Disengaged youth
Peterborough Police Community liaison
Tamarside Community College Alternative learning
Breckland Angling Coaching Club Alternative learning
Milton Keynes & Stoke on Trent Disabled Angling Clubs
Margaret McMillan & Lilycroft Primary Schools Every Child Matters
Helston Community College Young people
Nine Maidens Centre Youth and families together
Falmouth Primary School Youth and families together
Dreadnought Centre Autism
Harlow Council Respect agenda - families
Royal National College for the Blind Visual Impairment
South Staffs Angling for Everyone Specialist disability
Help for Heroes Servicemen and ex-servicemen
Crime Reduction Initiative Recovering alcohol and drug users
Totally Hooked Long-term unemployed and adult education

Results & Outcomes for 2005

British Disabled Angling Association

Disability - doubled coaching team - EAZ and disability support

BDAA Pics

The British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA) initiated a coach team development programme through Dreamstore Academy. In two years, 2005 and 2006, it doubled it coach team to 20 and have joined with Dreamstore in the innovative and hugely successful Education Action Zone. The BDAA has taken a lead in delivering to SEN schools, and is a key partner with Dreamstore UK in tackling participation for people with disability.

Lord Williams School, Thame

Young people - alternative curricula - OCN

Patricia Mansfield wished to develop angling as the basis of an alternative education provision for young people at Lord William's School, Oxon. In 2006 she introduced an OCN course for pupils who were disengaged from other aspects of curricula activities. Dreamstore assisted with travel costs in the first year to help establish interest and encourage enthusiasm among staff and pupils alike.

Warrington Anglers Association

Women - Club development

Lynda Lythgoe wished to introduce more women of all ages to angling at one of the largest clubs in the North West, Warrington Angling Association.

Priory Hall Youth Centre

Disengaged youth - personal development

Ruth Murchie is a youth leader at Priory Hall Youth Centre working with disengaged youth in Essex and gained a Level 2 qualification to coach sea angling. Southend is close enough for daytrips. Dreamstore assisted with the provision of sea angling equipment sourced from a leading wholesaler.

Peterborough Police

Community liaison - youth diversion

Martyn West, a Peterborough police constable, used his qualification to work with young people as part of the NE Peterborough Community Liaison team. Dreamstore assisted with the provision of coarse angling equipment sourced from a leading wholesaler.

Tamarside Community College

Alternative learning - AQA

Andrew O'Reilly, a teacher at Tamarside Community College, Plymouth, has used angling to engage with young people disengaged from formal learning. He has recently developed an AQA qualification to introduce a starting point from re-engage young people into formal learning: Dreamstore is supporting the new AQA with equipment and day tickets to local trout fisheries.

Results & Outcomes for 2006

Breckland Angling Coaching Club

Alternative learning - youth and immigrant

Breckland Angling Coaching Club, was a club without a core coaching team. The director of the Club, an Education Officer with the GMB Union, recommended seven people for the Academy. A number of this team had never gained a qualification. Our on-course 'Learning Buddy' programme provided invaluable support.

The Club has a core team, and a number of coaches who had slipped away, returned once the Club had been invigorated. The Club works with local schools and has a community development programme working with groups with English As Second Language.

Milton Keynes & Stoke on Trent Disabled Angling Clubs

David Lewis supports Milton Keynes Disabled Angling Club, which has progressed strongly now that there is a qualified coach on hand. Stoke on Trent Disabled Angling Club has similarly benefited from the coaching support of Paul Brammer.

Margaret McMillan & Lilycroft Primary Schools

Every Child Matters - culturally diverse young people

Richard Walker is a school teacher at Margaret McMillan Primary School, Bradford. He has developed teaching ideas around angling and the environment for his year 5 pupils, which included a day out at a local fishery. The School is culturally diverse, though predominately British Asian. Every Child Matters is an important policy framework for Richard's approach.

Alan Robinson from nearby Lilycroft Primary School, Bingley, attended the 2007 Academy. This means there are two qualified coaches with similar outlooks in the Bradford/Leeds area. Richard worked with the Dreamstore Education Action Zone in 2007 to add a FUNdaMENTAL aspect to learning.

Helston Community College, Nine Maidens Centre,
Falmouth Primary School & Dreadnought Centre

Young people, youth and families together: areas of multiple deprivation and autism

John Brooks is a teacher at Helston Community College, Cornwall. He supports a number of projects, along with his partner Rozy. Rozy completed her Level 2 at the Academy in 2007. In addition to working with young people at Helston he has supported Nine Maidens Centre working with young people and families from areas of multiple deprivation.

Plans for 2008 include support to Falmouth Primary School, with a catchment area similar to Nine Maidens, and summer scheme support to the Dreadnought Centre's programme working with Autistic young people.

Harlow Council

Respect agenda - families

Alan Webb works for Harlow Council, Essex. He has applied his qualification to a new project meeting the RESPECT agenda, introducing parents to angling and the environment to then bring families together in an outdoor recreational environment. Dreamstore has assisted with the cost of a meeting venue for year one of this project.

Royal National College for the Blind

Visual Impairment - website support from work of RNC Angling Club

RNC Angling Club Pics and weblink

Barry Morris works as Lead Project Officer for enrichment support at the Royal National College for the Blind. He joined the Academy to provide a more skilled coaching experience for a few of the students at RNC who fished from time to time. Once he understood the potential of the coaching facility he approached Dreamstore for support. The upshot of discussion is the RNC Angling Club.

This is more a web Club than an organisation. Using experience at the College, Barry hopes to provide a web based resource that offers advice and support to those with a visual impairment who wish to fish.

Results & Outcomes for 2007

South Staffs Angling for Everyone

30 groups serviced at specialist disability angling centre

William Corns supports the Albrighton Trust centre outside Wolverhampton. William has been our oldest Academy participant at 70+ (pictured here with our youngest participant, Jos - there is over fifty years in the age difference: never too old, never too young). He is the driving force of South Staffs Angling for Everyone, which is a volunteer group offering coaching days at this angling venue specifically designed for people with disability. Over 30 groups are coached in the course of one year.

Help for Heroes

Servicemen and ex-servicemen - coaching support

Ian Houlton is an ex-serviceman on the South Coast. He has a brain injury. He introduces visually impaired people, and their friends and family, to sea angling. He will join in with the RNC Angling Club to offer sea angling 'getting-started' tips and offer some examples. He has also volunteered to offer angling tuition days out for Help for Heroes, noting that choosing remote fishing spots adds to providing a calming and relaxing place for servicemen who need some space.

Darrel White has a spinal injury as the result of an accident. He is keen to establish an angling coaching activity within the Back-Up Trust. Dreamstore is discussing this possibility with Darrel and regards the RNC Angling Club as a format that may be useful once Darrel resolves to move forward.

Crime Reduction Initiative

Recovering alcohol and drug users - coaching support / self-help

Trevor Lysandrou is a recovering alcoholic and wished to work with the Clubhouse, an outpost of Crime Reduction Initiatives, Bournemouth, to assist others who wish to forgo alcohol and drugs, many of whom have found themselves in trouble with the police and courts. Trevor and the Clubhouse regard angling as a positive recreation through which there is the potential for people to reconnect with families, and particularly children. Dreamstore is supporting this programme for three years with equipment and establishment costs, with a defined outcome that there should be a self-sustaining angling club at the Clubhouse within three years. Having seen the value of angling as a diversionary activity for young people, this will help us evaluate the value of angling in a similar application working with adults.

Totally Hooked

Long-term unemployed and adult education

Get Hooked on Fishing Midlands has been one of the most successful projects of its type. While it started with a focus on young people 'at risk', it has developed a wide range of socially beneficial programmes and activities. GHOF Midlands has sponsored volunteers to attend the Academy to enhance the coaching team. In 2007 it introduced 'Totally Hooked' as an adult learning programme. The immediate outcome was to build confidence among long-term unemployed and re-engage them with a learning environment and hopefully some will provide added coaching support in the future.

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