I can’t emphasise strongly enough how important I think the new Angling Trust is to us anglers, not just coaches but all fishermen and women across the country. Below is this week’s press release which asks us to spend a few minutes completing an online survey. Yes, someone is finally about to ask what you the individual angler thinks and wants. I told you times were changing!

Two things you must do now, join the Angling Trust, if you aren’t already a member and/or register to be part of this survey. If you don’t act now never let me hear you complain about the state of angling again.

Angling Trust logo - the voice of angling

For Immediate Release

Wednesday 18th February 2009

—BEGINS—

Sport England Calls on Anglers

The Angling Trust is calling on all anglers who are members of an angling club, and young anglers, to take part in a new survey. One thousand anglers must register for the survey if angling is to be eligible to receive the promised four year funding package of £1.56m from Sport England and any future funding.

Sport England has commissioned the survey to establish what is important to people when they take part in sport and how satisfied they are with the quality of their experience. The survey goes live in March 2009, however we need anglers to register their details now so that Ipsos MORI who are conducting the research can contact them directly.

The registration process takes about two minutes. All personal details supplied will be held in the strictest confidence and used solely for the purposes of this study.

There are two surveys:

  • one for members of an angling club which is a member of Angling Trust (or which was a member of NFA, NFSA, S&TA): www.anglingtrust.net/clubmembers
  • and another for young anglers aged 16-18: www.anglingtrust.net/talentpool

    • For more details about the survey and electronic links to the study please visit the Angling Trust website, www.anglingtrust.net.

    Mark Lloyd, Chief Executive of the Angling Trust urged every club angler in the country to complete the survey commenting: “This is an opportunity for anglers to have their say about their experience when they go fishing. The results will help guide our work over the next few years and will affect future funding decisions from Sport England for angling. Please help!”.

    —ENDS—

    Angling Trust

    The Angling Trust is the new, single organisation to represent all game, coarse and sea anglers and angling in England. We lobby government, campaign on environmental and angling issues and run national and international angling competitions. We fight pollution, commercial over-fishing at sea, over-abstraction, poaching, unlawful navigation, local bans and a host of other threats to angling.

    As the governing body for all angling, the Angling Trust will seek government funding to develop the sport from grass roots participation through to elite performance. We will develop programmes with clubs to increase participation, particularly amongst groups who have yet to discover the joys of going fishing. We will protect the rights of all anglers to do what they love most. The Angling Trust has been formed from an historic merger of six angling and conservation organisations in January 2009. Other bodies, including the Angling Development Board, will merge with the Angling Trust in 2009.

    For more information about Angling Trust: www.anglingtrust.net

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