Angle for the Community’s weekly Get Fishing beginner sessions – how you can get a Get Fishing Award too!!

Angle For The Community in Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, have been enjoying a really busy start to 2025.

Their weekly sessions over at Homestead Park Lake have been incredibly popular. Working in partnership with Immingham Town Council, the group have utilised the Get Fishing Award to help provide the structure to the sessions and help develop key angling skills.

Anyone who has been fishing will know how beneficial angling is at boosting mental health and wellbeing and Angle For The Community is a CIC organisation with the aim of providing fishing and angling as an outdoor pursuit that can help with anxiety and stress based illnesses or as an aid to recovery from dependency.

Angle For The Community CIC is a new initiative set up in 2022 to introduce people to angling and the therapeutic benefits that it offers. Anyone using the services of the organisation will receive not only angling coaching from qualified, DBS checked coaches but also insight and education on topics such as the environment, conservation, wellbeing and mindfulness amongst others.

These sessions are part of the Get Fishing Awards. All adults, children and young people attending will discover what angling is all about and how to take up fishing. You’ll find out how to use fishing rods, reels, line and tackle to catch fish and return them safely. There will be Get Fishing volunteers on hand to give tips and help to assess participants in order to award the Get Fishing Award. They’ll also provide you with more info about your local club or fishery, so you know where to go fishing next time. Tackle, and everything else to catch a fish will be provided on the day. No need to bring any equipment.

Get Fishing Awards and Get Fishing events are being held all over the country. Find out where in your area by clicking here

The Get Fishing campaign is funded by

The Angling Trust’s Get Fishing campaign to get more people fishing more often 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. Children under 13 do not need a licence, and licences for children aged between 13 and 16 are free but you still need to register and receive a licence before you go fishing. You can get a licence for the full year, for 8 days (ideal for holidays!) or just a day’s fishing.

NOTE: Although young children who are under 13 year old do not need a licence to fish, the person supervising them needs to have the proper fishing licence before they take hold of the fishing rod or help the child fish with it.

Get Fishing is Proudly Supported by

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.

If there’s something that you cannot find here to help you start fishing or return to angling, please contact your local Regional Angling Development Officer – you can find the nearest one to where you want to go fishing here.