Fun2Fish 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 MoreDEAZ had been tried and proven successful for mainstream school pupils with September’s visit to the Rednal Junior School. With the pilot for DEAZ underway, Get Hooked on Fishing Midlands was asked to support Numeracy Week at the Turves Green Girls’ School year 7. The school motto is ‘Educating Girls for the Future’ and January [...]
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 MoreDreamstore has assisted the development of angling at Lord William’s School in Thame, Oxfordshire. The work is developing into curricular activity. Dreamstore has supported the cost of travel to Go Fishing 2006 at the NEC and to the Burghfield Match Lake, which was provided courtesy of Cemex. Pat Mansfield described the year of activities in [...]
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 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 MoreLeft to Right: Delighted with the donation of new sea angling equipment is Ruth Murchie (left), Priory Hall Youth Centre, being presented with some of the new sea angling equipment by David Hoey (right), Dreamstore UK. A donation of new sea angling rods and reels and life-preservers to the Priory Hall Youth Centre, Halstead, Essex, [...]
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; 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 MoreLeft to right; Kym Southwell of Bank of Scotland, Corporate, presents Pat Mansfield of Lord Williams School, Oxfordshire, the Social Inclusion Award 2005. Lord William’s School Oxfordshire was awarded the Social Inclusion Award 2005 at the Dreamstore Active Awards evening held at Chesford Grange, Warwickshire. The Social Inclusion Award, sponsored by Dreamstore UK, is for [...]
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