🎥 NEW VIDEO: Brilliant fishing events! Get Fishing and Reel Rod Squad helping young people get into fishing

ReelRod Squad, is a Nuneaton charity encouraging young people to get off the streets and try fishing.

Meet some of the young people that attend the Reel Rod Squad events in our new video.

The charity with its slogan ‘Pick up a Rod, Not a Knife’ gives young people the opportunity to enjoy fishing – an activity that means spending peaceful time away from the town’s streets, or their screens. The chance to get into fishing is helping drive down statistics on knife crime and other crime.

Everybody is welcome to come and try fishing at www.anglingtrust.net/getfishingevents – whatever your age, ability or experience level, fishing offers the opportunity to escape the demands of a busy school, work and home life by surrounding yourself in nature and wildlife away from a world of technology. It provides an opportunity for our minds to rest and reset and can be a meditative pastime that often happens in places where the wonders of nature are very evident. Going fishing is a perfect activity to incorporate in mental health and wellbeing support activity for kids and adults alike.

ReelRod Squad is supported by our Get Fishing event programme to get more people fishing more often that is funded by the Environment Agency from fishing licence income as part of the National Angling Strategic Services contract with the Angling Trust, and Sport England.

Get Fishing is proudly supported by Shakespeare Fishing and Angling Direct – as we all work towards getting more people fishing, more often.

About the Angling Trust and Get Fishing
The Angling Trust is the national representative and governing body for angling in England. Get Fishing is the Angling Trust’s campaign to get more people fishing more often. It’s funded by the Environment Agency from fishing licence income and Sport England to encourage regular participation and diversity in sport. www.anglingtrust.net/getfishing

About the Environment Agency
The Environment Agency funds the Angling Trust to provide more opportunities for people to go fishing and encourage sales of fishing rod licences. Money from fishing licence sales is spent on improving fisheries habitat and angling infrastructure projects.

About Sport England
Sport England recognise the Angling Trust as the national governing body in England. It funds the work we do to promote active lifestyles and to maintain a regular participation habit through the sport of angling and in partnership with other organisations to deliver the National Angling Strategy.

Angling Direct is the Exclusive Retail Partner of the Angling Trust’s ‘Get Fishing’ campaign to get more people fishing, more often. This partnership encourages more people to take up angling for the first time, to get back into the sport and brings the health and wellbeing benefits of fishing to a wider audience, across all age groups. Find a friendly fishing shop near to you at www.anglingdirect.co.uk

Shakespeare is the Exclusive Fishing Tackle Partner of the Angling Trust’s ‘Get Fishing’ campaign to get more people fishing, more often. There’s no fish like your first fish. And nobody knows that better than Shakespeare. For over 100 years, Shakespeare has been one of the most recognizable brands in fishing. As more and more newcomers discover the joy of fishing, Shakespeare will be there, providing the gear and inspiration to make sure that the next bite will never be the last. Find out about fishing tackle at www.shakespeare-fishing.co.uk

The Angling Trust’s ‘Get Fishing’ campaign is proudly supported by
Shakespeare, Exclusive Tackle Partner and Angling Direct, Exclusive Retail Partner
as we all work towards getting more people fishing, more often.