Aim: To motivate disaffected young people
Funding: Donations and grants - differs for each project
Fishing therapy could soon be on its way to a community near you after initial research results revealed that catching fish can help disaffected young people.
Get Hooked on Fishing (GHOF) uses the buzz of catching a fish to motivate young people's re-engagement with learning.
Targeted at the disaffected or those not in education, employment or training (Neets), the scheme is being analysed as part of a three-year research programme looking at the social benefits of angling, funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
GHOF currently runs in 15 areas including Liverpool, Birmingham and Kent, after being set up in 2000.
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