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Getting started
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Voluntary groups often remain as small informal sessions, meeting regularly, but with no set plan or objective other than as a place for like-minded people to get together from time to time. Many decide to take a next step and become more formal. In this day and age that means […]
Dreamstore Day to focus on Stroke Survival
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Over the summer Dreamstore is supporting a project to encourage Stroke Survivors and their carers to use fishing as a means of getting outdoors and being active. Part of that programme will be an open day at Albrighton Moat on Wednesday 7th August, a Dreamstore Day special to focus on […]
Farming at sea
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A Panorama investigation into the sustainability of Salmon Farming is available on the BBC iPlayer in the UK for the next 11 months at the date this is posted. The iPlayer introduction asks: What do you know about the salmon on your plate? Panorama explores the £1 billion industry producing […]
Supporting the community
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Hartcliffe & Withywood Angling Club supports young people from estates South of Bristol. Last year at the end of the season Dreamstore visited a small private pond, provided by local business Arthur David, that the Club had refurbished and improved general access. Dreamstore has provided some safety equipment to get […]
Coaching Challenges
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Another successful Dreamstore Academy has been delivered, this one at the excellent facilities of the Albrighton Trust near Wolverhampton. Over three weekends at Albrighton Moat, Academy participants worked through the twelve course modules, including the unique Disability Module and a final two days of assessments. Participants were referred from the […]
Academy focuses on disability support
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Our latest Dreamstore Academy is underway at Albrighton Moat, near Wolverhampton. The first weekend is complete, and just two more weekends to go, one in April, and one in May. This Academy has a particular focus on disability, making the Albrighton Trust facility a perfect location for delivering the course. There […]
One year isn’t a trend, but…
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Great news that the results from Year 1 of the new Greenland Salmon Conservation Agreement reports that 17.79 tonnes of wild Atlantic salmon were harvested at Greenland in 2018, far below the recent 5-year average of 43 tonnes. The result: thousands of additional salmon will be headed home this spring. […]
The grandmother who cleaned a beach for every week of the year.
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Most New Year’s resolutions are broken within a day to two of being made. Not for Pat Smith, aged 70, who resolved to pick litter from Cornish beaches; one outing every week of 2018, 52 in total. CornwallLive news site lists all of Pat’s 52 beach cleans. A fantastic achievement. […]
Rewarding
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In Scotland, the Blairgowrie team for Angling for Youth Development (AFYD) held its annual get together for young people, parents, volunteers and coaches at the end of November. Celebrating another successful year, the AGM was followed by a quiz and refreshments. John Cameron, co-ordinator for Blairgowrie AFYD says: “Acknowledging the […]
Reaching into the Community
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In Northern Ireland it really was an exceptional summer, with lots of sun from end of May to end of July, and very dry. That made plans for the extension of angling activities at MUVE (Mid Ulster Victims Empowerment), based in Cookstown, to include young people suffered from poor fishing […]