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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Representatives from voluntary organisations around the country attended our Dreamstore Day at Haydock Park Racecourse on Saturday. A great time was had by all, meeting and exchanging ideas and experiences of working with many different types of groups. More later on different parts of the day, as there it too much to post all [...]
Read MoreFishing has proven to be a useful means to provide diversionary activity suitable for young people who are ’referred‘ by many official agencies. Dreamstore has provided a small grant to Get Hooked on Fishing to review its broader application as an aid to addressing social inclusion and to help develop its programmes for wider application. [...]
Read MoreLeft to right; Christopher Edwards, Warren Bradbury Desiree Elliott, Daniel Wright from SAFE, Group Award 2005; Richard Wightman of the Environment Agency who collected the Conservation Award 2005 for the Godalming Angling Society Marsh Farm Project; Andrew Walker (Get Hooked on Fishing Midlands), Individual Award 2005, along with colleagues Craig Steventon and Yvonne Tustin; Rachel [...]
Read MoreLeft to right; Mark Tellwright of Dreamstore UK presents Andrew Walker with the Dreamstore Active Individual Award 2005. Andrew Walker of GHOF Midlands was awarded the Individual Award 2005 at the Dreamstore Active Awards evening held at Chesford Grange, Warwickshire. The Individual Award is presented to the individual who has done most to promote and [...]
Read MoreDelighted with the donation of new sea angling equipment are participants and partnership representatives: Mark Finn, Yvonne Boswell (Conwy LEA), Richard Burns, Wesley Roberts, James Wyatt-Jones, Eric Humphries (Welsh Course Angling Association, Official Coach), a Dreamstore representative along with Stephen Wood (Denbighshire YOT), Harry Wym-Owen (Welsh STA Coach), Daniel Jones (Conwy LEA), Simon O’Hara, and [...]
Read MoreGet Hooked on Fishing programmes around the country aim to support young people who are disengaged from education or at risk of offending. In 2004 Dreamstore partnered with DEFRA’s Countryside Agency and the Home Office Positive Futures programme to commission a review and recommendations for future development of the Get Hooked on Fishing Trust. Since [...]
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, [...]
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