Category: Dreamstore Academy
Investing in people, making a difference. Dreamstore Academy offers coaching courses to those who already work within education, youth and community.
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 […]
Building voluntary sector capacity
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Dreamstore Academy has recently completed a successful Level 2 coaching course in Scotland. The course provides a series of skills sets that provide the framework for organising activities that help develop individuals’ angling ability. Within the Academy we had the opportunity to offer an Emergency First […]
Getting organised
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With a new angling season underway Dreamstore has created a new web-based resource for leaders and coaches in the voluntary sector. Our Dreamstore Academy course used an Angling Coaching Diary as a basic resource for each participant. When this was created it was in CD format. Updates to computer operating […]
Planning ahead.
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With added skills from Dreamstore Academy, the team at Mounts Bay Angling Society has almost doubled its junior membership over the past few years. The great achievement of the Angling Society was aided by getting out beyond the club, and organising events along with the Cornwall Children’s University (CCU) and the Penwith […]
On show at Three Counties.
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The Worcester Fly Dressers is a group of people passionate about fly tying and fly angling. In the past year or so the group has been turning its attention to building the next generation as passionate as they are about their pastime. […]
Getting started 2015 – where tech helps.
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Over the winter months we completed another successful Dreamstore Academy in Scotland, for participants working with Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network and Angling for Youth Development. It was an interesting course, not least in being able to discuss with the SSACN participants how they will be using the skills-set to […]
Academy 2014 – England.
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Autumn of 2014, and Dreamstore Academy in England concluded with two days of final assessment at a fishery in the Midlands. It was the driest of days, it was the wettest of days. Little warmth in the November sunshine, but our participants were focused only on completing the three weekend, […]
Sight Lines
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Dreamstore has been working with the Royal National College for the Blind, specifically the RNC Angling Club, on a project which we hope to launch in 2015 – we’re calling the project ‘Sight Lines’. Hopefully, more of that later. Meantime, building up to that we have supported a complete makeover […]
A busy Cornish summer
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Moving to Cornwall for almost our last reports on summer activities. Our friends at Angling School in Cornwall have had a hugely busy summer. Following on from the Big Fish Festival in May we provided the Angling School with a new pop-up to inform people about its range of activities […]