Published on 12th May 2008
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.
Published on 22nd April 2008
Desiree Elliot of Stoke Angling for Everyone thanks Dreamstore for its support in helping bridge a funding gap, allowing the youngest members of SAFE’s Youth Clubs to take part in all the activities.
Published on 31st March 2008
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. The first outing with the new equipment took place at Easter 2008.
Published on 1st August 2007
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.
Published on 1st August 2007
Urmiston Angling Association was awarded a small grant to develop its Youth Training and Development Programme, based in Trafford, Manchester. The club works exclusively with young anglers, providing a positive recreational environment.
Published on 16th July 2007
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.
Published on 12th June 2007
A small grant was awarded to help The Nine Maidens Centre with the organisation of its angling activities by purchasing the appropriate equipment and organising a ‘reward’ for your young people and families.
Published on 1st May 2007
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.
Published on 30th April 2007
The Essex Association of Boys Clubs organised its first ever deep sea fishing trips in March 2007. Six young people and Keith Cranmer, a Boys Club officer, left from Bradwell and headed out into the North Sea. A second trip took place in April. The trips were possible with the generous support of Dreamstore, which supports the educational and recreational value of angling.
Published on 19th April 2007
Young people at Castlepark Centre, Dundee, decided that going on a trout fishing trip and donating their catch to a local old people's group was an excellent way to promote citizenship within the community. The over-60's Tea Dance group at the Grey Lodge Settlement was delighted to accept the large rainbow trout from the budding young anglers.
Published on 1st April 2007
Fun2Fish works with children and young adults who have learning difficulties and have often been excluded from mainstream schools in the Bournemouth area.
Published on 6th July 2006
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.
Published on 31st May 2006
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.
Published on 31st December 2005
Having attended the Dreamstore Academy during the summer 2005, deciding at the last minute to do a sea coaching certificate rather than a coarse one, local youth worker Ruth Murchie planned a sea angling programme to start in January 2006. Assisted by a member of the ladies England Sea Angling Team she has initially made six places available, all of which have been snapped up.
Published on 31st December 2005
Edith Borthwick is a special needs school for children from four to nineteen years old, catering for moderate to severe learning difficulties and autism. One of the teachers has a personal interest in angling and she has recruited young people in the 14-19 age group who are interested in taking part in an angling programme.
Published on 30th November 2005
The Bradley Tenants and Resident Association enlisted the assistance Dreamstore to send two local volunteers to a coaching course, run at Pershore College. This will mean there are planned and well-organised coaching sessions for the local young people which will create ownership of the pond by all who use it.
Published on 31st October 2005
The South Liverpool Dysphasia Support unit, managed by the Stroke AssociationBDAA to organise a fishing ‘day out’ for the group. Dreamstore assisted by covering the cost of a disability friendly portable toilet to improve the appropriateness of the chosen fishery near Crewe, Cheshire. The group included a couple of men who had fished before their strokes, and a number of volunteers who were sceptical about the suitability of angling for the members. That scepticism was banished on the day. Everyone, those who had had a stroke and those volunteers who assisted on the day, had a marvellous time.
Published on 31st July 2005
Dreamstore covered the cost of British Disabled Anglers Association owning a week on the River Doon in Ayrshire. The week was offered locally and the name of My David Davidson was pulled from a hat. Regrettably, Mr Davidson passed away from cancer the week prior to his angling opportunity. In his memory the BDAA provided a shield to be fished for each year on the Doon by any disabled angler. The shield is in the keeping of Smithton’s Fishing Club. Mr Davidson’s wife, Irene, believes her husband, “would have been delighted with what the BDAA has done for local people.”
Published on 30th June 2005
JETSET (Junior Environmental Taskforce / Senior Environmental Taskforce) is part of the programme to regenerate the Wandle River in London. The end of the heavy industrial age has left its scars on our landscape, not least on many of our waterways. The group was established to be hands-on in clearing the debris of decades of neglect. Each weekend on selected stretches of the river they gather to grapple, dive and collect skip loads of items as large as motorbikes and metal wastes to those as small as the ubiquitous plastic bags. On occasions, as a stretch is cleared of rubbish and the silts move away to reveal the riverbed, the fish move back.
Published on 10th February 2005
Get Hooked on Fishing programmes around the country aim to support young people who are disengaged from education or at risk of offending.
In 2004 Dreamstore partnered with DEFRA’s Countryside Agency and the Home Office Positive Futures programme to commission a review and recommendations for future development of the Get Hooked on Fishing Trust. Since then, a new Chief Executive has been appointed, which was one of the central recommendations, and there promises to be exciting development in 2006.
Published on 31st May 2004
In association with the Loughs Agency, which has its headquarters on the River Foyle, the Londonderry YMCA wanted to develop a comprehensive ‘fishing experience’ for young people in the North West of Northern Ireland. Dreamstore provided funds to train three leaders for a planned series of courses for young people. This seed funding enabled access to other funds which required trained coaches to lead programmes.
Published on 29th February 2004
Dreamstore Fishing Action Zone at the NEC Go Fishing show in 2004 was the launch of Dreamstore UK. Supported by the Environment Agency, for the first time ever, many not-for-profit organisations were brought together in a single open space. The British Disabled Angling Association, Get Hooked on Fishing, Wheelyboat Trust, Eden River Trust and other members of the Association of River Trusts, along with the Salmon and Trout Association and the National Federation of Anglers development teams, all worked with a great spirit of co-operation and enthusiasm to create something accessible and fun for the public. National Fishing Week was launched on the central podium of the zone as was Sport Relief’s Fishing Megamatch.