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.