STAFFORDSHIRE ANGLING REGENERATION TEAM 


 Mission Statement

Staffordshire Angling Regeneration Team are committed to bringing young children off the streets into a safer environment through angling. Our efforts thrive on community values and involvement to bring everybody toge

ther whatever race, religion or culture they may be from to a safe and close environment.  

 

 

 

Introduction.

Welcome to this website put together hopefully to show you the achievements and success of Staffordshire Angling Regeneration Team, which is a teaching group in Stoke-on-Trent. Our group consists of six angling clubs which all contributed to create the group, nicknamed (Star Team ) back in October of  2004. STAR Team was originally put together from an idea to work with people from all walks of life and use angling as a tool that could be used as an intermediary between different cultures and religions.  Our emphasis is to create a better understanding of the environment and awareness of our surroundings through teaching young people how and why they should respect the environment, hopefully through success with our schemes , we would like to advocate litter and damage done to landscapes and wildlife areas in Stoke-on-Trent. Through our first year of work we have made close links with eight special schools and four primary schools and many different community groups in the area and we would like to push angling into school curriculums in the same way as football and cricket. A lot of things like pond dipping already take part in schools and we think the extra step may help the next generation be more aware of the sport and the environment. At STAR Team we uphold community values and hope to pull together people who may or may not like fishing to hopefully preserve good quality parks and river ways so that present and future generations can enjoy wildlife and outside activities for the future. Our members, who take part in our activities are fully committed to our cause and are NFA coaches. We also try to involve people within the community to take part in our events and have created "The Rugrats "who have successfully passed the star award. We have been invited to eight special schools to expand the program with the pupils at these schools as part of their class work, which will be starting in the next few weeks as they have already done a teaching day at one of the pools.  At Staffordshire Angling Regeneration Team we have been accepted as an organisation in Stoke -on-Trent by the Environment Agency and Sport England and hopefully get their backing as we feel that our programs and schemes are going from strength to strength and making a difference in our community.






Sports awards

Sports awards: Angling group helping struggling kids hook into a better life


ANGLING is being used to give deprived and special needs youngsters a focus in their lives.

The Staffordshire Angling Regeneration Team, better known as STAR, helped more than 2,000 children take part in the sport last year.

The group, which relies on a hard-working band of around 20 volunteers, was formed in 2004 to help disadvantaged children become part of a community-based club

The group, which use Sammies Pool in Fenton, is also open to young offenders.

Group secretary Sonia Bee said: "All they have to do is contact us if you are interested in coming down.

"We provide all the equipment and everything else they need.

"It allows youngsters to feel part of something and it brings a smile to their face.

"We also hold weekend matches and events during school holidays to ensure children have something to do.

"All the volunteers are qualified coaches and we are always happy when new people get in touch.

"The aim is to bring together people from all walks of life, whatever their race, religion or culture, to teach them fishing in a safe environment.

"The group provides a fun and welcome atmosphere."

STAR also helped raise money for three-year-old cancer sufferer Madison Parton last year.

Members held a 24-hour angling event for the youngster, from Sandford Hill, which raised £2,400.

"We read about Madison in The Sentinel and her story touched our hearts," added Sonia.

"Each year we try to raise money for a particular cause, and last year the money allowed Madison and her family to go to Euro Disney in Paris."

The group has been nominated for a Sentinel/City of Stoke-on-Trent Sports Personality of the Year Award by charity worker Michelle Cheadle.

She works for Action For Children, a charity which supports the UK's most vulnerable and neglected youngsters.

As part of her work, she found out about STAR TEAM and has nominated them in the sport in the community category.

She said: "We were extremely impressed with the work STAR TEAM do and thought they deserved to be honoured for their brilliant efforts.

"Everyone who has come across what the group do is hugely impressed with the volunteers and what they are setting out to achieve.

"It gives the children an opportunity to do something that other children perhaps take for granted in a very warm and community-orientated atmosphere.

"They don't turn anyone away and have helped so many local children feel a part of something."





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