{"id":6013,"date":"2014-05-12T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2014\/05\/12\/nffo-commits-50000-to-training\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:57:17","slug":"nffo-commits-50000-to-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/nffo-commits-50000-to-training\/","title":{"rendered":"NFFO commits \u00a350,000 to training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the Trust helped fishermen get through their safety certification and achieve skippers\u2019 tickets. The grants were also spent on lifejackets, hand-held radios and other safety equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Casson, training trust chairman, NFFO, said: \u201cWe are delighted to announce that we are in a position this year to make grants of \u00a350,000 to help fishermen with their training and acquisition of safety equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe generosity of our donors and in particular, NFFO Services Limited, means that we again can invite regional organisations to apply for grants. We have found that this is the most effective way to tailor the grants to local needs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the Federation\u2019s commercial division, NFFO Services Limited, donates what it can afford to help spread the benefits across the fishing industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UKs National Federation of Fishermen\u2019s Organisations\u2019 (NFFO) Training Trust is committing \u00a350,000 for fishermen\u2019s training, safety equipment and general education about the fishing industry in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6013\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6013"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}