Building a brighter future for young people

We are an angling charity which helps provide positive opportunities for young people and communities.

Welcome to Get Hooked on Fishing!

We are an angling charity which helps provide positive opportunities for young people and communities.

We deliver fun and interactive training around the sport of angling. Our work is designed with the help of young people to give the participants more confidence and to demonstrate that there are alternative pathways and better opportunities available to them.

National Angling Strategy – ‘Angling for Good’

Get Hooked on Fishing is pleased to be working with a number of partners, including the Environment Agency and the Angling Trust, contributing towards the National Angling Strategy ‘Angling for Good‘. Take a look at the 2021/22 Annual Report to hear about some of the achievements in what was a year like no other!

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We're always on the lookout for our next volunteers - so if you would like to lend some help or advice to us then click here!

Attend an event

We run a number of taster events throughout the year - why not come on down and give fishing a try!

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What people are saying

"Most Youth Service professionals who have encountered the Get Hooked on Fishing scheme have sensed something special about the project. There is an apparent synergy of vision, commitment, process and tangible outcomes."

Home Office Positive Futures

"We don't just go fishing at get hooked, we do many different things, we have fun we learn and we talk about some very serious things"

Get Hooked on Fishing Participant

"Sam was 13 when his school referred him to us because he lacked confidence, had low self-esteem and was starting to truant and spend his days with young people involved in anti-social behaviour - now he coaches other young people on the scheme"

Sarah Collins

Chief Executive, Get Hooked on Fishing

Get Hooked on Fishing news

Environment Agency 2023 Annual Report on how fishing licence money spent

100% of fishing licence income is reinvested back into angling. Between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023 the Environment Agency sold 903,216 licences, which generated nearly £21,000,000 of fishing licence income. This was reinvested to improve fisheries for people, the...

Esquire magazine Gets Hooked on Fishing

Earlier this year Get Hooked on Fishing delivered a fishing session for Stephen Smith a journalist, broadcaster and author, and his son at Northala Fields researching a piece for Esquire magazine. It’s now published in the Winter 2023 issue!

Get Hooked on Fishing becomes a Get Fishing for Wellbeing Approved Delivery Partner

Anyone who has been fishing will know how beneficial angling is at boosting mental health and wellbeing. Angling Trust ‘Get Fishing for Wellbeing – Approved’ delivery partners are quality assured organisations that can deliver consistently high-quality experiences and...