Fundraising begins at home!

We’re becoming extremely proactive here in deepest rural Devon and decided that we aren’t going to sit on our hands and wait for people to donate till we reach the magic figures deemed necessary by the Charities Commission et al to raise funds… No, we’ve now got 3 online shops where we offer you something [...]

Fishing festival update

Claire has started a thread on the Reels on Wheels forum, where she’s itemising the prizes pledged/donated to our raffle. We just want to make sure that everyone wins a prize and she’s a great Administrator, as she’s contacting everybody she can think of!!
To be honest, it matters not whether they donate a voucher, a [...]

Exciting times…

Well it is for us at the moment. Nick went to the annual Welsh Carp Forum Social at Peterstone Fishery last weekend (will post pics soon!). He made some excellent contacts, shook a great many hands, sold some Reels on Wheels Buffs and picked up a new sponsor! He also had some very interesting talks with [...]

Update on our Fishing Festival weekend

I’ve taken this from Claire’s post on the Forum:
We have had some fantastic news regarding the Reels On Wheels Fishing Festival, I had a phone call late last night confirming that we have got a very special guest coming along to present all the prizes on the Sunday afternoon.Mr Mick Brown will be coming along [...]

BUFF does Reels On Wheels!

Woohoo! The Reels on Wheels (limited edition) Buffs arrived today. You can see them here, listed in the Reels on Wheels Tackle Shop if you’d like to purchase one. As the RRP set by Buffera is £10.99, they’re on sale for £12.00 including P+P. Each Buff is mounted on the Buff cards with pics of [...]

2009 – already planning!

Please check out the NUBA Fundraising Initiative Page at the top of my blog to see what next year will bring!

Leonard Cheshire Disability

Before Christmas, we were contacted via email by Leonard Cheshire Disability, based in Braunton, Devon, about linking up and having a meeting. The meeting will take place in the near future and this organisation, which works for disabled people, already has 4 people who are keen to go fishing. The Buddy System is the reason they [...]

Behind the Scenes!

You might think that because of the lack of blogposts lately, not much is happening here at Reels on Wheels. You couldn’t be more wrong! My head is spinning this morning, wondering what to blog first – so I’m going to tell you about everything that I can.
Nick had a very interesting conversation this morning [...]

Reels on Wheels Fishing Festival 2008

I asked Claire to post this on the ROW Forum earlier, as she’s organising it in her role a volunteer Administrator (and she’s making a great job of it, too!):
Fishing Festival 7th and 8th June 2008
The finalised details of the fishing festival are as follows.This will be a two-day festival of fishing for EVERYBODY: We [...]

Offer of the Month!

At Reels on Wheels, we’ve been offered the opportunity for any members and their carers/buddies to take part in 2 days of Flyfishing with expert professional flyfishing instructors – Tom Hill (Devon & Wiltshire Flyfishing School) and Tim James.These very experienced guys have offered their services to us at a cost of £90 per person [...]