Welcome to Proper Mental episode 93 with The Wave Project founder, Joe Taylor.
The Wave Project is a surf charity that harnesses the power of the ocean to improve the mental health of children and young people.
The Wave Project started in September 2010 and at that time was the world’s first ‘surf therapy’ course funded by a government health service.
They now have 32 beaches and locations across the U.K where they run surf therapy programmes.
In this episode I chat to Joe about how the charity got off the ground and how its grown over the years.
We chat all about surf therapy, how it works and who it helps and we chat about surfing, nature and supporting children and young people’s mental health.
The Wave Project is an incredible thing and surf therapy is now a growing global movement so it was awesome to learn more about it all.
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