Boxing clever

The Pitch

Problem statement

The high levels of reported, especially in the media, anti social behaviour in Brinnington attributed to local children and young adults has highlighted the need for positive interventions. Our club, is a respected and prominent within the estate, and therefore feel the opportunity to expand our community provision would be welcomed. A successful boxing club can help the local, and wider community, by reducing health inequalities within its residents by participating in regular exercise, provide positive role models within the local community, and importantly, can assist in reducing anti social behaviour, and the attributable social cost to emergency services and youth services.

Solution

We will offer additional diversionary activities for 6-16 year olds to try top reduce anti social behaviour in the area, at hotspot times on Thursdays between 18:00-20:30. The life skills garnered through dedicating themselves to a sport, the discipline to train hard and respect opponents, allows the individual to gain confidence and personal development. Moreover by including the boxing awards certification scheme, we can introduce a structured and educational programme to develop confidence in boxing as well as anatomy and physiology and healthy lifestyles advice, whilst encouraging students to gain an ASDAN qualification, which is important to those not engaged in mainstream education.

Why are we best placed to deliver?

Stockport & Brinnington ABC are an England Boxing affiliated club that has been running within the community of Brinnington for almost thirty years, providing boxers, coaches and positive role models for the residents of the local community and the wider Stockport community, through regular recreational and club sessions for children, young people and adults regardless of age, gender or ethnicity. The club has seen the numerous personal, social and community benefits that boxing can add to the local community. We are keen to see the numbers of young people in particular accessing the sport, to develop and improve their confidence and skills, and increase their mental and physical wellbeing.

Focus Areas

Delivery plan

Budget breakdown

Beneficiaries

30 people

Expected impact

Our experience as a boxing club serving a deprived community, is that through entering in a sporting diversion, this allows the individual to have an outlet, gain confidence and personal development, whilst providing a diversion away from anti-social behaviour which is unfortunately prevalent within the estate. We sincerely hope the increased opportunities for young persons within Brinnington and the wider community through boxing can result in reducing anti-social behaviour and the attributable social cost to emergency services. On a more tangible level, we hope that the project may result in junior boxers, male or female, to represent the area in boxing shows, both regionally and nationally, which will provide a real marker to the success of the project, as well as showing a positive side to the wider community. This, alongside the measurable outcomes of attendance and participation for example, will offer insight into the hard and soft outcomes from the project.

Track record

The multiple benefits that sport, and in this case boxing, has many facets. The sport contributes to enhancing lives from physical health benefits to mental and social wellbeing, increasing self -esteem in its participants, and by providing positive outlets and role models for those communities. I have seen the immense benefits that fostering good relationships with external stakeholders such as Social Services, Youth Offending Teams, Neighbourhood Management, to collaborate effectively but also to combine resources and funding for direct interventions. One specific scheme that we ran, Sportivate, gave free access to local children to boxing sessions for an eight week duration, the provision of new boxing equipment, and mentoring through a professional boxer called Courtney Fry. From this course, the club gained a future North West Region ABA Junior Novices champion, Callum Barlow, as well as a number of current boxers.

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