Greg,
I heartily applaudyour efforts, and I hope I haven't dampened your enthusiasm. However, I feel that the issue of responsibility, and your personal protection against anyclaim, must be addressed before you start out.
I, too, thought that getting myself involved in bringing angling to others would be something I could be personally proud of, and I'm only talking about ordinary folk - certainly no-one with anything like the problems you described in your first post. To this end I was directed to the ADB, and informed that enrolment in their course was the only legitimate way with which I could achieve my aim. I had to be 'qualified' to Level 2 standard in order to be able to purchase the Government-decided neccessary insurance policies. I was also informed that persons holding the forerunner of the ADB qualification (the NFA levels 1 & 2) would have to retake the ADB course or forfeit their right to teach, instruct and possibly earn a living from angling tuition. (I wonder how that has progressed?)
The course was a long, longweekend of mind-numbing, bureaucratic namby-pamby, (not the fault of the course presenters, I hasten to add!) with virtually no time dedicated to the actual process of going fishing or teaching people how to fish - that all comes with the extraordinarily expensive Level 2 course, apparently!
I left the course with a subsequently-sent award saying I was now a Level 1 coach. Since then, I have heard absolutely nothing from the ADB, except to ask if I wanted to enrol for Level 2. The only 'constant' from all this is that I cannot teach people to fish by myself, either for free or for financial gain, because I cannot obtain the required insurance cover. The ADB (and therefore the Govt) wants its pound of flesh (actually its £700+) before I can proceed -and its this point that I object to.
With regards to yourself, I expect you are already more than familiar with how bureaucracy can make a total interfering mess of even the most well-meaning and sincere of projects. However, both you and Imust have the correct legal cover. We are leaving ourselves open to claim and blame if we don't. To get it, you've got to be licensed to L2 by the ADB - apparently that's the only way. I would advise you to contact the ADB (you can do it via the Angling Trust website) and get your own situation clarified.
As I said, if anybody reading this knows of a way around this, or can offer any alternatives, then I'd be so very pleased to hear from them.
Finally, all the best to you Greg, both for your project, and for your efforts in bringing a disadvantaged group of people intoour welcomingworld of angling.