Angling Programme

We have been funded by the Angling Trust to deliver a fishing programme. We deliver this at Get Hooked on a fishing facility in Northolt, Middlesex.

Fishing is now the UK’s biggest participation sport and the sixth biggest sport overall, behind armchair sports such as football and rugby. However, those from a lower income background are at higher risk of disengagement. Working with ‘Get Fishing’, we introduce young people from lower-income households to the benefits of fishing as a meaningful and rewarding programme as we emerge from the pandemic. Angling programmes are particularly effective at providing solutions for re-engaging this cohort by raising self-esteem, efficacy and aspirations alongside assisting them to meet basic levels of attainment. The key aims and outcomes of our programme are to;

• Improve personal development and functional capacity

• Improve ability to work as a team

• Reduce loneliness and isolation

• Improve work skills (volunteering/work experience)

• Increase participation in sports and leisure activities

• Keeping participant motivated

• Increase education attainment through progression and recognised CAST awards

• Raising aspirations nd progression into fishing-related activities be it employment or further training

• Improve wellbeing and social integration in society