Youngsters from Denbighshire have been given the opportunity to learn how to fish, thanks to assistance from North Wales Police.
Ten young people from the Rhyl area who are on the Youth Inclusion Project (YIP) yesterday (Tuesday, 18th August) spent the day at the Tan y Mynydd Fishery in Moelfre, Abergele as part of their reward for taking part in community projects.
The Youth Inclusion Project is a tailor-made programme for young people who have been identified as being at high risk of involvement in offending or anti-social behaviour and aims to help reduce youth crime.
The day was funded by YIP and Crimebeat and was co-ordinated with the help of PC Alyn Smith, from the Central Divisions Community Safety Team and Michelle Frankland from YIP.
I was approached by the Youth Inclusion Project who said they had a small group of young people who were interested in learning how to fish, said PC Smith.
Funding was obtained by Crimebeat which is a project that enables young people between five and 25-years-old to develop projects to prevent and reduce crime to help make their community a safer place to live.
He added: This is an excellent example of partnership working and the day has given the young people something different and interesting to do during the summer holidays.
Two sessions were held with two different groups, with the 13 to 17-year-olds being given the opportunity to learn how to do some bate and fly fishing.
To earn this reward the youngsters had to take part in various community projects such as helping out with leaflet drops, painting and even putting together a DVD which shows the impact of anti-social behaviour. The DVD has been scripted, filmed and edited by the youngsters with assistance from the TAPE project in Old Colwyn. Once completed, the educational film will be shown to various agencies.
15-year-old Shaun Harris thought the day was excellent. He said: Ive done some fishing before and even though I havent caught anything so far Ive really enjoyed today.
Assisting on the day was Schools Liaison Officer PC Colin Midgley, who is twice British Police Fishing Champion. He said: This is an excellent way of introducing something new and different to the young people, who have all learned new skills and who have hopefully, really enjoyed the day.
James Williams works on the Youth Inclusion Project. He said: The fishing activity is one of the rewards the youngsters have had after undertaking voluntary community work.
They were given a wish list of what kind of activities they wanted as rewards and one of them was fishing. They have all worked so hard and its great to see them really enjoying themselves.
Michelle Frankland, YIP Manager at Denbighshire said: This is the second diversionary activity project that Rhyl YIP and North Wales Police have jointly delivered over the last six months. Both have been very successful and encourage a positive future for more partnership working. I look forward to the next project.
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