2nd and 3rd of November saw the Dreamstore Education Action Zone back at Wilson Stuart Special School for the first of a full pilot for the DEAZ activities. Two days with years 3, 4, 5 and 6 on the Thursday and years 7, 8 and 10 on the Friday. This was larger than the first [...]
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 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 MoreEdith 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. [...]
Read MoreThe South Liverpool Dysphasia Support unit, managed by the Stroke Association approached the BDAA 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 [...]
Read MoreThe British Disabled Angling Association is a poorly funded, but enormously important body which seeks to improve access to fishing for people with disabilities. It is involved in providing information and supporting facilities for people with disabilities throughout the UK. Dreamstore supported the BDAA with a small grant to keep open a stretch of the [...]
Read MoreDisability – doubled coaching team – EAZ and disability support The British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA) initiated a coach team development programme through Dreamstore Academy. In two years, 2005 and 2006, it doubled it coach team to 20 and have joined with Dreamstore in the innovative and hugely successful Education Action Zone. The BDAA has [...]
Read MoreSupported by the Environment Agency, Dreamstore helped create Dreamstore’s Fishing Action Zone at Go Fishing 2004. For the first time ever, many not-for-profit organisations were brought together in a single open space. The British Disabled Angling Association, Get Hooked on Fishing, Wheelyboat Trust, Eden River Trust and other members of the Association of River Trusts, [...]
Read More
