Young people at the Castlepark Centre, Dundee, decided that going on a trout fishing trip and donating their catch to a local old people’s group was an excellent way to promote citizenship within the community. A small grant for equipment and support to the project from Dreamstore UK enabled the creation of a Castlepark Fish [...]
Read MoreFun2Fish works with children and young adults who have learning difficulties and have often been excluded from mainstream schools in the Bournemouth area. The project has recently purchase a selection of Pike Fishing Tackle, made possible with a generous donation from Dreamstore UK. The 6 sets of Pike Fishing Tackle have been thoroughly tried and [...]
Read MoreRecovering alcohol and drug users – coaching support / self-help Trevor Lysandrou is a recovering alcoholic and wished to work with the Clubhouse, an outpost of Crime Reduction Initiatives, Bournemouth, to assist others who wish to forgo alcohol and drugs, many of whom have found themselves in trouble with the police and courts. Trevor and [...]
Read More30 groups serviced at specialist disability angling centre William Corns supports the Albrighton Trust centre outside Wolverhampton. William has been our oldest Academy participant at 70+ (pictured here with our youngest participant, Jos – there is over fifty years in the age difference: never too old, never too young). He is the driving force of [...]
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 MoreVisual Impairment – website support from work of RNC Angling Club Barry Morris works as Lead Project Officer for enrichment support at the Royal National College for the Blind. He joined the Academy to provide a more skilled coaching experience for a few of the students at RNC who fished from time to time. Once [...]
Read MoreYoung people, youth and families together: areas of multiple deprivation and autism John Brooks is a teacher at Helston Community College, Cornwall. He supports a number of projects, along with his partner Rozy. Rozy completed her Level 2 at the Academy in 2007. In addition to working with young people at Helston he has supported [...]
Read MoreDavid Lewis supports Milton Keynes Disabled Angling Club, which has progressed strongly now that there is a qualified coach on hand. Stoke on Trent Disabled Angling Club has similarly benefited from the coaching support of Paul Brammer. Related Galleries
Read MoreAlternative learning – youth and immigrant Breckland Angling Coaching Club, was a club without a core coaching team. The director of the Club, an Education Officer with the GMB Union, recommended seven people for the Academy. A number of this team had never gained a qualification. Our on-course ‘Learning Buddy’ programme provided invaluable support. The [...]
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. [...]
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