|
 
Email
Links:
Webmaster
&
Secretary
Click below
for Guest Ticket info
Adverts
Fishing, golf, sun & sand
2 bedroom family apartment to
rent on the Costa Del Sol.
VAC Clothing
Orders Now
Being Taken
Click here to download order form
Luxury 8 berth
caravan to let - White Acres, Newquay, Cornwall
The caravan is sited
on this 5 star award winning holiday complex which is also one
of the top coarse angling centres in the country comprising 15
lakes.
Open from March to October
inclusive.
Contact Barry
Killinger on
07966 394717
This
site is best viewed with Internet Explorer and is optimised for screens of
800x600 and larger resolution
Discount Baits
VAC members, on production of
a valid membership card, get 5% discount on
bait products from
GJW Titmuss
|
|
VAC gains
CLUBMARK
At this month's AGM General
Committee member Neil
Roberts proudly announced that the VAC has achieved Clubmark accreditation.
Here, in his own words, is the full story:
After
nine months of hard work, the long awaited email
popped into my in-box from Jon Wilson (Angling Development Board) simply worded,
Congratulations we made it in the
end!
What he meant was that, thanks to the help and support
of the Angling Development Board and a core VAC team from the General Committee,
Verulam Angling Club had become the first Angling Club in Hertfordshire to gain
the highly prestigious Clubmark from Sport England.
That’s true recognition of a quality club providing a safe and well managed
angling facility with an emphasis on growing its membership.
Neil (right) receiving our certificate at Riverside Road
Gaining Clubmark accreditation is no
‘walk in the park’, for starters the running of the club was broken down into
four parts;
ü
The Playing Programme
ü
Duty of care and safeguarding and protecting children and
young people
ü
Knowing your club and its community
ü
Club management
Each section had an onerous series
of questions to prove our claim to be a club worthy of a quality hallmark. On
top of that not happy with answers to questions the process required an
‘evidence file’ with supporting material to back up all the claims made. Ours
ran to 270 pages!
So now can we sit back and enjoy the
high life amongst the sporting club elite? Not a bit of it, there are annual
checks, and every three years we have to do it all over again to keep our
Clubmark status.
Why all the effort??
Well VAC want to continue to develop as an AC and increase
participation in angling at all levels and ages, and to do that we will need
help in the form of funding sometime in the future. As a Clubmarked club we
‘tick’ all the boxes in that regard. For more information
on Clubmark click the logo, top left on this page.
The VAC General Committee sends out a huge thank you to Neil for his hard
work in obtaining this milestone achievement plus to the
team that helped
make it happen;
Roger Smith, Barry
Killinger, John Youngs and Mark Jones.
 HAVE
WE GOT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS?
Remember, that unless your email
address is registered on Club DB, our membership database, we can't keep you up
to date via e-news nor can we accept your application to join the VAC Forum. To
check and update your details see the Subscriptions page
 |
Mislaid your Direct
Debit form?
<= Click the logo to download a PDF
copy |
 |
Picture Perfect?
Club DB, our
excellent member database, is now serving us well with members able to
log in and update their details at any time.
However, a small number of
members have not yet sent in or uploaded a passport style picture which
we MUST HAVE to print up your next membership card. We believe we
have now resolved some the technical difficulties but for those who
cannot upload a suitable picture please find time to either email your
photo (quoting ID number) or pop a picture in the post to the Registrar.
More details on the Subscriptions page.
|
Associate Venues - click the logos
to go to the fishery web sites
VAC members, on production of their
club card, can fish for no charge subject to conditions. See VAC fisheries page
for details.
|
VAC members can fish The Tring
Anglers stretch of the Aylesbury Arm as part of a water share agreement.
|
£1 off all day tickets for VAC
members |
VAC members, on production of their
club card,
can fish the day ticket section of
Jack's Lake free of charge
|
|
Your Contribution
Don't be shy, send your catch pics
to the webmaster...
Josh Blavins was happy catching bream on the feeder at
Smallford when this 23lb mirror joined the fun.
Nathan Walters was delighted with this 14oz Marford dace.
Again at Marford, Neil Lucas with this 2lb 14oz roach
Advert
Verulam Angling Centre
VAC bailiff Terry Field is the now
the
owner of the Verulam Angling tackle shop in Fleetville, St Albans.
Situated at 219, Hatfield Road, directly opposite the Morrison's store.
Pop in or call Terry on 01727 861777
Almost Spring
With the weather hopefully warming up soon why not
pop in and stock up on bait from some of the latest ranges:
Click here for the
VAC Record List
|
