Butt secures grants for future of angling
Garry
Butt – the Worksop and District Anglers’ Association (WDAA) Junior Education
Officer, and also secretary of affiliated Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery
Angling Club, has worked tirelessly over the last nine months.
He has been putting effort into gaining grants for fishing equipment to
encourage young children from our area to take up the sport of angling,
as Garry’s objective is to help as many children as he can.
Initially, he successfully applied for a grant from South Rotherham Community
Chest for £405 to provide 15 life jackets to be worn by the trainees
while angling.
He then went on to gain his second successful grant of £4,946 from
Awards for All to provide angling equipment to cover all three disciplines
of coarse fishing – pole, float and feeder.
This has allowed children to take part in angling activities under the
supervision of National Federation Coaches. 
His third success was gained from the South Yorkshire Police ABC Awards
to the value of £2000.
This enabled him to obtain further equipment for coarse, fly and sea fishing
to help with costs of equipment, pegging fees, trophies, presentations
and administration costs for licence fees.
All the grants that Garry has received has allowed him to provide angling
coaching and competitions for children between the ages of eight and 16,
both through his own angling club and WDAA activities.
Earlier this year, he organised a match for 43 youngsters and on the day
prizes were provided for each child by numerous sponsors from the local
community.
Garry then organised an annual triathlon competition that catered for
up to 52 children who took part in the competition over a period of two
months.
Points were accumulated on an aggregate basis to encourage children to
improve their angling and make friends.
This resulted in last week’s presentation night when, once again,
prizes were provided for all of those who had taken part in the competition.
These were donated by various sponsors throughout the area. The special
guests on the night were president and vice president of the National
Federation of Anglers Ken Ball and David Kent, plus three times individual
world champion Alan Scotthorne and his wife Sandra, the current ladies
individual world champion.
Through the ABC award Garry, in partnership with Sam Allen, a development
worker for Rotherham Council, held a classroom session and three matches
on Horseshoe Lake in Wales.
The classroom session was held on 17th October and the three matches were
held on 21st and 22nd October.
A total of 50 children were invited to take part but due to weather conditions
only 32 turned up over the two day events.
Each child again received a prize that had been donated by various sponsors,
coupled with a certificate of attendance.
Among the volunteers on these occasions were Pcs Howard Saul, Tina Jones
and Roger Lispki.
Anyone interested in volunteering their services for future events can
contact Garry on Worksop 01909 770546.
Triathlon Results
Due to
shortage of space, the overall results for this three match annual event
were held over until this week.
The full results are as follows:
Under 12s age group – the overall winner was Danny Harding with total
weight of 8lb 12oz and a combined total of 16 aggregate points.
Kyle Moore was second with 2lb 13.5oz and 14pts followed by Joshua Whitworth
12oz and 11pts, James Owen 4.5oz and 9pts, Robert Stocks 2lb 10oz and
8pts.
13 to 16s age group – the overall winner, and of the competition
itself, was Adam Littler with 23lb 14oz and an aggregate points total
of 135, runner-up was Gavin Tomlinson with a creditable 22lb 14oz and
133pts.
Other leading aggregate points winners were Christopher Tait 129, Christopher
Taylor (21lb 9.5oz) 127pts, Shaun Kearsley (14lb 15.5oz) 127pts, Dean
Wesley 114pts, Adam McAndrew 112pts, Terry Foulds 111pts, Michael Smith
110pts, Ashley Nicolson 108pts, Mark Smith 100pts, Jason Barsley 98pts,
Daniel Ball 97pts, William Kirk 96pts, Sam Elliott 93pts.
Notice Board
Worksop
United’s permit holders’ match tomorrow will take place on the
Bracebridge section.
Any club member who intends taking part in the next match at Holme Marsh
on 10th November should submit their names to the secretary as soon as
possible.
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Yours in Sport Glyn |