Goals: To get young people off the street and away from crime by giving them the opportunity to do something positive
Funding: Various sources, including the National Lottery, Children in Need and the Coalfields Regeneration Trust.
When young people began to turn up to the Pretoria Angling Club in West Yorkshire in the hope that someone would take them fishing, founder member Terry Catton volunteered and soon there were more young people than adults.
But the adults started to complain, so Catton took the young people out on a separate night, eventually leading to the creation of South Elmsall Piscatorial Youth Section (SEPYS), now a registered charity in its own right.
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