Dreamstore has provided a wide range of Browning-ZEBCO equipment to Lymm High School for a new Angling Club. Eric Hazzard, a teacher at Lymm High School, has ten to fifteen Year 8 pupils meeting each Wednesday lunchtime for an Angling Club Hour – since Whit half term everyone has been taken angling in groups of 4/5 each Wednesday.
Dreamstore’s funding enabled all to go fishing at Carneys Pools and Blake Hall fishery, where a number caught their first fish. Visits included the Blue Planet at Ellesmere Port, where the young people learnt about fish anatomy and fish identification.
Dreamstore has been delighted to provide Halton Brook Children’s Centre some funding towards the Centre’s Fishing Club and a large range of Browning equipment.
Dreamstore was pleased to support the Wimbleball Lake angling participation programme, part of the South West Lakes Trust with access to 17 lakes within a total of 40 inland waters in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. South West Lakes Trust is an independent charity established to encourage, promote and enhance sustainable recreation, access, nature conservation and education on their waters.
John Grooms Charity works to provide residential care and housing for disabled people, so they achieve greater independence, choice and freedom. Dreamstore was approached to support a Lifestyles Choices Project in Bedfordshire which aimed to develop a programme for disabled adults to become more involved in social, leisure, and educational activities outside their homes. In mid-July the BDAA organised a day for around 20 John Groom clients.
Urmiston Angling Association was awarded a small grant to develop its Youth Training and Development Programme, based in Trafford, Manchester.
Dreamstore is pleased to be able to award a small grant to help The Nine Maidens Centre with the organisation of its angling activities. The money will go towards by purchasing the appropriate equipment and organising day trips sea fishing off the Cornish coast.
During Spring of 2007 Moving Up Through Leisure was looking for day time activities that we could offer to young people who where referred through schools and who needed additional support. These activities needed to provide some sort of accreditation, to be very cheap or free as our project didn't have any money and to have a therapeutic effect by increasing confidence and self esteem.
The Essex Association of Boys Clubs organised deep sea fishing trip in March and April 2007. The trip was possible with the generous support of Dreamstore, which supports the educational and recreational value of angling.
Dreamstore provided a small grant to Westhaven School, Weston-super-Mare to book the British Disabled Angling Association team of coaches for a fishing day at Cider Farm fishery near Brean, Somerset. Westhaven School was delighted at the response of the students, who have learning difficulties, to the angling day out. The school had struggled to find a local outdoor activity that catered for its students.
Dreamstore has assisted the development of angling at Lord William's School in Thame, Oxfordshire. The work is developing into curricular activity. Dreamstore has supported the cost of travel to Go Fishing 2006 at the NEC and to the Burghfield Match Lake, which was provided courtesy of Cemex. Pat Mansfield described the year of activities in her Fishing Report for the July 2006 edition of the TAKE ME HOME school publication.
Photos from Dreamstores Fishing Action Zone at the NEC 2004.
A selection of beautiful angling pictures taken by Peter Gathercole.