The 2006 Group Award goes to a Club entirely dedicated to coaching and increasing angling participation. This Club is an exemplary case study in the way in which education through angling can be creatively flexible and always worthwhile.
With the emphasis on education, this group has engaged with schools, adult learning, English as second language groups and has even made angling hi-tech with an ICT project to encourage young people to photograph, transfer and write up their angling experience on laptop computers at the water side.
The group is sponsored by the GMB Union as well as local tackle outlets and businesses. Most importantly the group is supported by a team of volunteer coaches. The emergence of groups such as Breckland is becoming more frequent; independent of the angling establishment and with education rather than angling as a focus, a professional interest driving change, which enthuses and inspires volunteers. This has been very much in evidence through registrations for the Dreamstore Academy.
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