Countryside Alliance - love the countryside

Unique fly fishing programme Casting for Recovery (CfR) is now a registered charity and is attracting huge support. The unique fly fishing retreat programme for ladies who have, or have had, breast cancer has inspired two excellent fundraisers recently. Only this week a two-man 250 mile kayak paddle from Belleek in Co Fermanagh to Limerick City ended in triumph, while two Casting for Recovery staff travelled to Forbes of Kingennie fishery and resort near Dundee last weekend to collect a cheque for £5,000 from owners Mike and Gail Forbes. The Countryside Alliance continues to provide backing to the charity too. Read Jill Grieve's blog about CfR's support here.

Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland, a unique outdoor-based programme specifically designed for women who have, or have had, breast cancer, has been granted charitable status by the Charity Commission. Casting for Recovery has received the financial backing of the Countryside Alliance since its inception in the UK in 2006.

If you are 18 or under please take part in an angling survey. As part of research into The Social and Community Benefits of Angling, Angling Research has launched its Young Person’s Angling Survey. The research aims to find out why young people go fishing and what can be done to improve their experience. The Survey runs until 1st Sept 2010 and is being carried out by Substance, a not for profit research cooperative, and is funded by the Big Lottery Fund. To Take the Survey visit: www.anglingresearch.org.uk/youngpeople
 

Angling Times magazine scored an interview with Conservative leader David Cameron, published in the 23rd March issue, in which he spoke enthusiastically of his love of angling. We don’t yet have the plans of other parties for angling, but in this interview Cameron said “angling is not only safe, we want to actively promote it….. it’s a great sport.” The 23rd March issue of Angling Times is on sale now.