Once they are hooked
Programme 14. Angling is just about catching fish – isn’t it? Apparently not. Andy Walker tells the story of how fishing rejuvenates young lives and protects communities from crime.
His Birmingham based organisation, Get Hooked On Fishing, is working in neighbourhoods across the city. With support from the Bournville Village Trust and the Neigbourhood Renewal Fund it is turning this hugely popular sport into an engine for social change.
Links:
Andy Walker’s contact details
Get Hooked on Fishing in the Midlands
The original Get Hooked on fishing organisation
Yardley Community Network
January 31st, 2007 at 9:08 pm
[...] Jenni Rowley and Selina Okunnu of the Northfield Young People’s Forum talk to us about how power is shifting towards the young in Birmingham. From April 2007 the forum, run by 11 to 19 year olds, will have up to £80,000 to offer as grants to the young people of this south Birmingham constituency. There is also an update on a story from July 2006 about Get Hooked on Fishing, based in Bournville. [...]