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In October of each year, as part of the Let's Fish! programme, Canal & River Trust organise teams of three Global Communities Celebration fishing event, sponsored in 2025 by Daiwa.
This is a legacy event emerging from the 2022 United by Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
As well as teams representing the home nations communities, young people with ancestral connections from nations from all over the world can take part to represent their communities.
The event will be held on Saturday 18 October on the Shropshire Union Canal in Staffordshire and Shropshire.
The event headquarters will be at Harper Adams University in Newport, TF10 8NB.
The number of places is limited to a maximum of 270. Those chosen to participate to represent their communities will typically have participated in the National Celebration of Young People and Fishing the previous month and then have been selected by the Let's Fish! selection panel to represent a specific community in a specific age category on the day.
There will be 70 automatic places up for grabs for the best placed points scorers in each category in the Let's Fish! regional events each year.
These will comprise of the top 30 cadets, top 15 young juniors, top 15 full juniors and top ten youth. Ask your local Let's Fish! coaching team for more information or email [[email protected]] (mailto:[email protected])
As this is a Global Communities Celebration, we're aiming to have as many overseas communities from across the globe represented as possible. In the past three years, the following overseas communities have been represented by at least one participant on at least one occasion.
Ideally each community would be represented by a team of three participants in each of the four age categories.
To be eligible to represent an overseas nation community, you must have a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent with ancestral connections with the nation you wish to represent. We happily aim to further expand the number of overseas communities represented as Let's Fish! expands reaches even more communities.
Yes, and you can find more information about our Let’s Fish accelerated development programme by emailing [email protected]} Please note that anyone applying to receive discounted fishing equipment will be required to also attend the National Celebration of Young People and Fishing and will be charged accordingly if they do not attend.
There are four age categories:
Cadet 6 to 10 years of age as at 01/01/2025
Young junior - 11-12 years of age as at 01/01/2025
Full junior - 13-15 years of age as at 01/01/2025
Youth 16 to 20 years of age as at 01/01/2025
There will be an opening ceremony held at around 9.15 am on the day of the celebration. This will take place at Harper Adams University (TF10 8NB)
At least three members of each global community will be invited to carry a national flag. Individual participants will however be required to provide their own national flags. Those with multiple ancestral connections can carry the flag of each relevant country.
There is a link to the event rules here.
If you have ancestral connections (parent, grandparents, or great-grandparents) to any overseas community, and you wish to be considered to represent this community, please email [email protected] as soon as possible. We strongly recommend you also attend the National Celebration of Young People and Fishing as preparation and priority will be given to those young people who chose to attend this event.
Last Edited: 24 March 2025
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