Benefits of Angling  

Angling provides excellent opportunities for therapy, rehabilitation and recreation both in later life and for people with a disability or special need. Angling provides therapeutic benefits to those people who are struggling with long-term illness or attempting to rehabilitate back to normal life following a traumatic incident. It can also be an extremely beneficial and therapeutic activity for people with mental illness or behavioural disorders. It incorporates a range of physical activity levels and so encourages activity amongst the inactive.

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Angling incorporates proven therapeutic engagement and contact with 'blue-green space' and consequently helps maintain positive mental health, provides stress relief and can support programmes for people with mental illness. It provides a rich social world that facilitates the relationship building, connection and participation in social life essential to securing health and wellbeing.

The role that environmental conditions and chance can play in catching a fish or not, can effectively 'level the playing field' making angling one of the few sports where individuals with very different characteristics and abilities can compete on similar terms against each other.

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• Provides excellent opportunities for therapy, rehabilitation and recreation both in later life and for people with a disability or special need.  

• Therapeutic benefits to those who are struggling with long-term illness or rehabilitation following a traumatic incident, mental illness or behavioural disorders. 

• Physical activity for the inactive. 

• Therapeutic engagement and contact with 'blue-green space' and help maintain positive mental health, provides stress relief. 

• Social world that facilitates the relationship building, connection and participation in social life essential to securing health and wellbeing. 

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