We have had two great Dreamstore Days, in Whitburn in Scotland on 2 March and in Hereford on 23rd March. More on those two days later. Meanwhile, the presentation shared on each day was on a topic which everyone in the voluntary sector knows to be of pressing concern at this time: fundraising. Terry Yarnall [...]
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The next Dreamstore Academy angling coach training course will take place in Cornwall, beginning in September 2012. The three weekend course will be held at the Redruth Youth Centre and is being run in association with the local Cornwall Angling School. There are a total of twelve places available for people active in the voluntary [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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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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Although it has taken a number of years to reach, and it will take time to develop further, the completion of Dreamstore Academy Level 2 qualifications by members of the Stroke Association in the North West has marked a significant point in the development of angling as a recreational activity to benefit stroke survivors. Andy [...]
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