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Can't see this email properly? View in browser Forward to a Friend or Club Members CLUBLINES CLUB NEWSLETTER OF THE ANGLING TRUST & FISH LEGAL NOVEMBER 2019

This year’s annual Christmas Raffle is bigger and better than ever! There are more fantastic prizes to be won and for the first time tickets are available online - making it even easier to take part! Ticket prices are still great value at just £2 and raffle tickets are available until Monday 16th December or until they sell out!  You can purchase tickets online or using the tickets included with the Angler magazine. You must be 18 years or over to enter. Winning tickets will be drawn on Friday 20th December! Please help spread the word about our vital work by sending a copy of this email to your members! Buy your raffle tickets online today! Look at these great prizes!   1st prize: £2,000 cash 2nd: £1,500 of Daiwa tackle 3rd: £750 of Daiwa tackle 10 x £100 of Daiwa tackle 10 x £50 of Fishing Megastore vouchers Volunteering Best Practice Guide: download a copy today! We know how important volunteers are to angling clubs. Most clubs are non profit making and heavily reliant upon volunteers for essential personnel such as committee members and  bailiffs. But while volunteers are essential, they are also subject to certain legislation.   That's why the Angling Trust has produced a Volunteering Best Practice Guide in partnership with the Environment Agency and funded by fishing licence income. An awareness of Best Practice will better equip clubs to provide the best volunteering experience.   This guide is essential for anyone in angling who works with volunteers - download your copy now! Download Volunteering Best Practice Guide Reminder: AGM and Annual Conference Are you going to the Angling Trust and Fish Legal AGMs and Building a Brighter Future Angling Conference? They take place on Saturday, 30th November at West Midlands Golf Club, Barston, Solihull and are now fully booked. It will be the first opportunity to hear and speak with our incoming CEO Jamie Cook. To go on the waiting list for a place email richard.morley@anglingtrust.net Clubs urged to respond to consultation on fish-eating birds The Angling Trust and the Avon Roach Project are calling on angling clubs to respond to the current licensing review and press to have cormorants added to the Wild Birds General Licence so that we can better protect fish stocks from unsustainable predation. The online public consultation is open for comments and responses until 5th December 2019. To help anglers with the process, we have produced guidance notes and suggested responses you may wish to use. Find out more Exclusive Member Offer! Sign up to Clubmate and get 20% off   Angling Trust clubs and fisheries can claim 20% off when they sign up to Clubmate, a secure online membership management platform. It is designed to help clubs and fisheries reduce admin, simplify the renewal process, attract new members – and join the 21st century. Clubs already signed up to Clubmate have seen an average 17.3% increase in membership in their first year!   Want to find out more? Just click here Pollution: Can your club afford not to be a Fish Legal member? The latest Environment Agency report into water and sewerage companies makes grim reading. It confirms that performances have deteriorated and serious pollution incidents have risen. Even more recently, Natural Resources Wales announced that it would not be prosecuting those responsible for the pollution which killed tens of thousands of fish on the River Teifi - one of Wales’ most famous sea trout or sewin fisheries and a European-protected site.   The environmental regulator instead accepted an offer from the polluter to pay £15,000 to a local rivers trust and £5,000 to the Countryside Alliance, plus £20,000 to Natural Resources Wales towards the cost of investigating.   Quite simply, regulators are letting polluters get away with killing fish and damaging the water environment.   One organisation fights polluters when others fail to take tough action. In the last 15 years, Fish Legal has forced polluters to pay out £1.5m to member angling clubs and fishery owners affected by pollution so that they can restore their waters. As a Fish Legal member, clubs also have access to a range of free legal factsheets.   If your club is not a member of Fish Legal please consider joining. You can find out more HERE or give our Clubs Advisor Sam Wickham a call on 01568 620447 or email samantha.wickham@anglingtrust.net We are Undefeatable! Angling has joined a new campaign to help people with long term health conditions find activities that inspire them to get active. We’d like to hear from anybody in your club who has a long term illness or condition which has been improved by fishing. They just need to send a few words and a picture or two to will.smith@anglingtrust.net so that he can use them to let people know how angling is a great way to help with mental or physical health issues. Find out more Free fisheries enforcement guides for clubs Our Fisheries Enforcement Workshops have now finished and it was great to see so many clubs represented at the six events. We have recently updated our series of FREE fisheries enforcement guides containing essential information for all clubs and fisheries. Find out more and download the guides Protection from predation Does your club have a problem with predation? Our Fisheries Management Advisors may be able to help you protect your waters. Just download this useful leaflet containing contact details. Can your club help? Can your club help us this autumn and winter? We're looking for suitable venues and organisations to help run events to encourage more people to take up fishing. Please contact: dean.asplin@anglingtrust.net SPECIAL MEMBERS OFFER! CREATE A NEW WEBSITE FOR HALF THE PRICE - IDEAL FOR CLUBS AND FISHERIES!   Find our more - and save £300 Can you help? Let your members know about the work we do Can you help us do more and support our 10 year anniversary? Our club, fishery and trade members represent over 400,000 anglers between them – if we could just encourage 1% of those anglers to join as individual members and support our work we could do so much more for the sport we all love!     SPECIAL OFFER: New individual members joining before the end of the year will receive their money back to spend on tackle at Fishing Megastore! Find out more           There are lots of easy ways to get involved! From posters and leaflets, through to emails and website promotion - we've got the tools for you to make it as easy as possible. You can access these on our dedicated portal we've created for you. Please can I ask that you discuss this with your committee to see if you can help. Any questions simply reply to my email. Samantha Wickham Club Membership Advisor Our 10 year story   It’s people like you who have supported our fight for fish and fishing over the last 10 years. You can read more about the work you have supported and how you have helped to protect and grow our sport. READ MORE Resources to help you spread the word There are lots of ways to get involved and help us do more. We have provided a range of resources to help you get started – if you wish to speak to a member of our team about this initiative or need further support please email samantha.wickham@anglingtrust.net. READ MORE

Make a donation and support our fight to protect fish and fishing You can now make online donations to our cause – please consider supporting our ongoing fight to make polluters pay and to campaign and lobby for protection of our fish and fishing. Make a donation HERE   WWW,ANGLINGTRUST.NET The Angling Trust is the united national representative body for all angling in England and Wales. It is united in a collaborative relationship with Fish Legal, a separate membership association that uses the law to protect fish stocks and the rights of its members throughout the UK. Joint membership packages with Fish Legal are available for individuals, clubs, fisheries, riparian owners and other categories. Please find out more. Angling Trust Limited is a company limited by guarantee, company number 05320350 Angling Trust & Fish Legal, Eastwood House, Rainbow Street, Leominster, HR6 8DQ Telephone: 01568 620447