Another successful Academy was completed in Blairgowrie on 20th May. Three of the group were placed on the course by the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network, a first step toward building its future outreach and education capacity. Dreamstore wishes SSACN the very best in this exciting development. Great too that this was the first course [...]
Read MoreWe are coninuting to plan our our Dreamstore Academy schedule for 2012. There is a full house for our Gloucester course starting soon, but will be planning another later in the year. There will certainly be another one in Scotland in the early part of 2012, and dates will be released soon. The one in [...]
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Dreamstore started the year early with a training day for coaches working in the voluntary sector in Scotland. Organised in collaboration with Angling for Youth Development around thirty coaches and a number of volunteers attended a rewarding day looking at ‘Event Planning’, the ‘Challenges of Autism and Aspergers’ and ‘Telling Others’. Event planning is often [...]
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We’ve just completed a Dreamstore Academy in Preston, delivering our Level 2 coaching qualification to participants from England including the first Angling for Youth Development members outside Scotland and for the North West Stroke Association. More later… We are presently delivering a Dreamstore Academy course at Stranraer, in the Police Station – a first for us. [...]
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We have just completed our first Scottish Dreamstore Day, in association with Angling for Youth Development (AFYD) which took place on Sunday 16th January in Perth, held at the Jeanfield Swifts Community Sports Centre. Around 30 attended from all over Scotland. Most attending worked with AFYD, but there were also many who work on independent [...]
Read MoreDreamstore has new location in Whitburn to delivery its SQA Level 2 Coaching qualification. Anglers from Central, West Lothian, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Paisley came together in Whitburn for an eight week module-based course which has been specifically designed for the voluntary sector. Most attending will work with Angling For Youth Development groups around Scotland, supporting [...]
Read MoreThe first Dreamstore Academy of 2010 is underway in Blairgowrie, delivering a Level 2 SQA Coaching qualification to a range of participants who will deliver angling sessions to young people and community programmes in the Blairgowrie and Perth areas. All are voluntary supporters of the expanding chanritable activity of Angling For Youth Development, who are [...]
Read MoreThe 2009 Dreamstore Academy has taken place in Blairgowrie High School. Blairgowrie is the centre of Angling For Youth Development (AFYD), and many of the participants were gaining a coaching qualification to help in their local AFYD groups already in existence, or on the planning board for later in the year. AFYD participants included a number for Paisley and Renfrew [...]
Read MoreOur second Academy was facilitated by the Scottish Anglers National Association (SANA) and held at the Sports Scotland National Centre, Inverclyde, near Largs. While the first Academy had been predominately fly anglers, this second had a majority of sea anglers including the coaches for the International Youth Team and the Chairman of the Scottish [...]
Read MoreOur first coaching Academy in Scotland has been a huge success, with around twenty participants gaining their Dreamstore Academy Level 2 Coaching Certificate with the SQA accredited course units. A number of others have a number of tasks to complete over the next few months and we look forward to them completing the course early [...]
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