This year’s Dreamstore Active Group Award, supported by the Environment Agency, has been presented to an organisation that has worked away quietly for many years providing opportunity for young people to be challenged. Outside any formal sport structures and with an organising committee working totally in a voluntary capacity, this group has served the voluntary sector [...]
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A busy weekend with Dreamstore Day on the Saturday and the final assessment weekend for the Quedgeley based course completing on Sunday 25th. The weekend saw nine complete the course for Level 2 (UKCC Standard) SQA Sports Coaching: Angling. Luck Kay, Police Community Officer in Quedgeley, is the local organiser who has gathered a team of volunteers to support [...]
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Our individual award recognizes someone who has done a great deal to promote and encourage fishing as an enjoyable pastime, and to encourage responsible participation among new enthusiasts. This year we have the opportunity to recognize someone who has given many years of service to angling. This person has innovated, initiated change and cleared hurdles that prevented [...]
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The Dreamstore UK ‘Best Business’ Award is sadly not handed out too often. It might be expected that those who profit from angling would demonstrate an affinity with the recreational, social angler Generally, this is not the case. Strange, when more than three-quarters of licensed anglers in England and Wales are recreational anglers outside Club [...]
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Dreamstore Day brings together people and groups who use angling as an engagement tool in the voluntary sector. It is a day to support continuous learning and development of individual and group capacity.
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St Ninian’s Angling Club is a community based angling group in Paisley, meeting in the Hall of St Ninian’s Parish Church. St Ninian’s Angling Club wanted to work through the winter to keep young people engaged in positive recreation. The big challenge is to maintain interest in angling through the cold wet winter nights. Dreamstore [...]
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Our first Dreamstore Academy in 2012 is taking place in Quedgeley, Gloucester. It is supporting the launch of a new Angling for Youth Development project being led by the local Police. There’s a great team being trained to work in the voluntary sector, and that extends to volunteers from the community and from the local [...]
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Our 2012 Dreamstore Day is planned for the 24 March to be held at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford. This event combines a meeting place for all those in the voluntary sector who use angling in some way or other as part of their activities, with a learning day on topics [...]
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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