Get Fishing For Wellbeing - Walthamstow Reservoirs 🎣

The Angling Trust submitted a successful bid to Natural England to run 3 Get Fishing for Wellbeing Pilot projects at Walthamstow Reservoirs. The Project looks to improve people's health and well-being by introducing them to angling, new friends and nature.
The course included the 5 Ways of Well-being, as documented by the NHS:
- Connect With Others
- Be Physically Active
- Learn A New Skill
- Give To Others
- Pay Attention To The Present Moment
Participants learnt the basics of angling, including fish safety - resulting in a sustainable, healthy, outdoor activity which they can pursue for life. They also learnt to relax and reflect to improve their own mindfulness. Fishing is a beautiful excuse to be out in nature and being an angler is so much more than just learning how to catch a fish.
Through initiatives such as the Angling Trust's Love Fishing, Love Nature campaign, participants also learnt how to identify and care for wildlife and the wetland environment surrounding the fishery. We also promote the We Fish As One ethos to participants which celebrates diversity and encourages inclusiveness in the angling world.
At the end of the course, participants now have the skills needed to go and fish at their local fishing lakes and will also be able to volunteer and mentor the next cohort of learners. This will hopefully lead to continued engagement in not only angling but also in helping others to improve their own well-being. Each participant received a free fishing pole from our friends at Shakespeare and a free day ticket to the fishery.
Thames Water kindly donated the classroom and fishery facilities for the project, THANK YOU 👏
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