Dreamstore Update

January 6, 2007 in All Articles, Dreamstore Academy, Results & Outcomes 2007 by admin

Long-term unemployed and adult education

Get Hooked on Fishing Midlands has been one of the most successful projects of its type. While it started with a focus on young people ‘at risk’, it has developed a wide range of socially beneficial programmes and activities. GHOF Midlands has sponsored volunteers to attend the Academy to enhance the coaching team. In 2007 it introduced ‘Totally Hooked’ as an adult learning programme. The immediate outcome was to build confidence among long-term unemployed and re-engage them with a learning environment and hopefully some will provide added coaching support in the future.

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Recovering alcohol and drug users – coaching support / self-help

Trevor Lysandrou is a recovering alcoholic and wished to work with the Clubhouse, an outpost of Crime Reduction Initiatives, Bournemouth, to assist others who wish to forgo alcohol and drugs, many of whom have found themselves in trouble with the police and courts. Trevor and the Clubhouse regard angling as a positive recreation through which there is the potential for people to reconnect with families, and particularly children. Dreamstore is supporting this programme for three years with equipment and establishment costs, with a defined outcome that there should be a self-sustaining angling club at the Clubhouse within three years. Having seen the value of angling as a diversionary activity for young people, this will help us evaluate the value of angling in a similar application working with adults.

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Servicemen and ex-servicemen – coaching support

Ian Houlton is an ex-serviceman on the South Coast. He has a brain injury. He introduces visually impaired people, and their friends and family, to sea angling. He will join in with the RNC Angling Club to offer sea angling ‘getting-started’ tips and offer some examples. He has also volunteered to offer angling tuition days out for Help for Heroes, noting that choosing remote fishing spots adds to providing a calming and relaxing place for servicemen who need some space.

Darrel White has a spinal injury as the result of an accident. He is keen to establish an angling coaching activity within the Back-Up Trust. Dreamstore is discussing this possibility with Darrel and regards the RNC Angling Club as a format that may be useful once Darrel resolves to move forward.

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30 groups serviced at specialist disability angling centre

William Corns supports the Albrighton Trust centre outside Wolverhampton. William has been our oldest Academy participant at 70+ (pictured here with our youngest participant, Jos – there is over fifty years in the age difference: never too old, never too young). He is the driving force of South Staffs Angling for Everyone, which is a volunteer group offering coaching days at this angling venue specifically designed for people with disability. Over 30 groups are coached in the course of one year.

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