I totally agree with you on that Steve, if ever a man was a Knight of angling then it would be Les Webber. Such selfless devotion to the youngsters and at great cost to himself as regards time and effort has screamed out for government funding for a long time but the fact that its his baby and not the result of some government/civil service minion means he won't be recognised. A totally disgraceful state of affairs obviously but we the anglers could do more to promote him to the media but apart from Keith Arthur, who sings his praises at every opportunity, he is very rarely mentioned.
Maybe Angling Times, Improve your coarse fishing and Anglers Mail could run regular features on him with regular reports on the activities and matches that he runs, make everyone aware of his good work, then he may start to get some recognition but more importantly some funding.