The Thames Anglers Conservancy were approached by Ben Skelton who runs the excellent Ham and Petersham Youth Club providing kids in the local area with a structure and a place to go. The link to them is here

Along with very many projects they run a fishing club and wanted advice from the TAC and during the discussions we found the tackle they had was either broken or inadequate. The club has the rights to fish the Thames Young Mariners at Ham along with an abundance of local river Thames

We made contact on their behalf with Les Webbers Angling Projects and Les kindly donated some tackle to the youth club.

We were delighted today to hand over the tackle to Ben for his project. In addition we are to run some fishing workshops for the kids to explain tackle set up, baits, techniques and fish care.

Angling development is something important to the TAC so are very pleased to have been able to assist here.