Left to right; Rhys Llywelyn, Fishing Wales winner of Conservation Award and Best Business/Agency Award, Richard Wightman, Environment Agency Sponsor of Group Award, Simon Henton, winner of Individual Award, Chris Reece, collecting on behalf of CWM HEDD Fisher winner of Social Inclusion Award. The weekend’s 2006 Dreamstore Active Awards, sponsored by Bank of Scotland Corporate [...]
Read MoreDreamstore 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 [...]
Read MoreNews of the new Dreamstore Education Action Zone very quickly reached Kent. It was agreed with the British Disabled Angling Association, supported with Environment Agency funding, to explore the level of interest in Kent. In Birmingham the Wilson Stuart School is part of a wider school network of 40 special schools. There appeared to be [...]
Read MoreAt the first indoor DEAZ pupils were promised an experience outdoors in May. Years 4 and 5 and years 7 and 8 pupils were brought to Albrighton Moat near Wolverhampton, a special centre for people with disability that includes a fishing pond in addition to sensory gardens and activity hall. The Dreamstore Education Action Zone [...]
Read MoreDreamstore 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 [...]
Read MoreDreamstore had the idea for a schools project ever since the Dreamstore Fishing Action Zone at the NEC launched the charity to the angling public in February 2004. Two years of thinking and planning and we were ready to trial an education action zone in Spring 2006. For most pupils this was the first ever [...]
Read MoreVisual Impairment – website support from work of RNC Angling Club 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 [...]
Read MoreRespect 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 [...]
Read MoreYoung 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 [...]
Read MoreEvery 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 [...]
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