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Over the winter a lot of our time was spent planning for 2024. To enable us to develop and grow grant funding plays an important part in that work. When we set up we enrolled on the Funding for All Mentoring programme and for the past year have had the support of a mentor to help us plan and submit our grant applications. With the partnership now coming to an end it was a great pleasure to advise them in our final communication that we had been successful in two applicatio

In recognition of the work and commitment, that our volunteers give to the organisation, we offer, those who wish to do so, the opportunity to gain the Angling Trust's Lead Event Coach Level 2 course. This qualification is for those with some experience in coaching angling who would like to lead in a position of coaching, whether independently, within a club or at a fishery. Lead coaches can plan and deliver coaching activities and direct the operations of Angling Support Co

Following on from the successful Fish Fest programme pilot in September/October 2023, Cast A Thought, and our partners - Maidstone Community Safety Unit (Kent Police); Infozone Youth Centre; Golding Homes and Angling Direct - were invited to the Kent Police College, Maidstone on Thursday 22nd February to attend the Strategic Prevention Command's Problem Solving Awards 2024. This evening was a recognition of the work taking place around the county to deal with anti-social be

For a while we have been looking at how we can expand our work into Hertfordshire. With Julia, our volunteer, passing her Angling Trust Angling Event Lead Coach training recently, we are now in a position to move this plan forward. Today we had the pleasure to meet with Jessica Baird, Active Local Officer for Bedwell, Stevenage, at Fairlands ValleyPark, to discuss the work that we do and the support that Herts Sport and Physical Activity Partnership can offer us to deliver

We hope that you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are sorry that we have been quite over the past month but we have been busy working behind the scenes planning for 2024. We have a number of grant applications in and hope that our funders look favourably on these to ensure that we can deliver the volume of work we did over the past year. In the meantime our contracts with Live Well Kent and Medway and Involve continue and we shall be running more Fish and

With a background in youth work we feel very passionately about all young people having access to positive activities. Having been...