South Cerney National Angling Festival for anglers with disabilities

Sunday 1st July 2007
South Cerney Angling Club, Cotswald Water Park

The South Cerney National Angling Festival for Anglers with Disabilities is an annual event, held exclusively for disabled persons.

This will be the 27th festival, which has proven to be a great day out fishing for those new to angling and experienced anglers alike. Participants from all over the country come along to take part in this very popular event, probably the biggest disabled angling event in the country.

The fishing is held on three well-stocked lakes at South Cerney Angling Club, five miles south of Cirencester in the heart of the Cotswold Waterpark. The lakes offer some excellent fishing and have good vehicle and wheel chair access.

The festival offers an opportunity for disabled persons to access angling, regardless of age, gender or disability. It is also a chance for participants to get together with other disabled persons. The event is kindly supported by various fishing tackle and bait retailers and manufacturers both locally and nationally, along with other businesses and individuals that help make the event such a great day out.

There are one hundred and twenty places available this year. Entry is by bookings only and will be on a first come first served basis. Priced at £5.00 per participant, price includes a breakfast, packed lunch and after match meal from a Pig Roast.

Participants are able to bring along a helper but if one isn’t available we have a large group of stewards willing to lend a hand. We also welcome juniors with disabilities to come along and join in the fun.

This year, to join in with the festival, we have invited a group of disabled children who will be guided by fully licensed coaches, for them to try a sport they can actively take part in, and help improve social inclusion.

This year’s celebrities include Martin Salter MP and Terry Fell, President of the National Federation of Anglers, who will be coming along to meet the participants and to present the trophies and the great prizes that are up for grabs.

A draw for swims will take place at 8am, and fishing will commence from 10am until 3pm. To round off the day there will be a Grand Raffle with many, many great prizes donated to us by our kind supporters.

The Fisherman’s Rest’, our licensed clubhouse and bar overlooking Ham Pool, is the perfect setting for all to meet up with old friends and make some new ones too. For those finding local accommodation and are making a weekend if it, we shall be having a BBQ, raffle and a Karaoke/Disco at the Fisherman’s Rest to help raise funds for the event.

For more details, and to view photographs from previous events, please visit the festival’s website at www.southcerneyfestival.org.uk

To avoid disappointment we advise you to get your application forms to us as soon
as possible as spaces are filling up fast. We hope you’ll come and join us.

For an application form please send a SAE to:

South Cerney National Angling Festival
212 Ermin Street
Stratton St Margaret
Swindon
SN3 4LW

Source: www.southcerneyfestival.org.uk
Contact: info@southcerneyfestival.org.uk

Uk Fisherman would like to wish everyone connected with the South Cerney Angling Festival the best of luck with the event on July 1st 2007. I am sure it will be a resounding success...Paul @ Uk Fisherman

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