Broadfield Boxing Club (final name undecided)

Broadfield Boxing Club (final name undecided)

Working with the Outreach team from WSCC it was made clear that a provision of a Boxing Club would meet a lot of the aims for this area.

Broadfield alone has approx 5200 residents aged 25 yrs or below. This ward along with others has many ethnic backgrounds and cultures. To combine this with Bewbush and neighbouring areas on the South West of the Town it is a very young and diverse area.

Crawley has 2 long established Boxing Clubs in Crawley Keystone ABC in west green and Crawley ABC in three bridges. These are well respected and well used. The West of Crawley has access to these Clubs and facilities but speaking to people in Broadfield and Bewbush, they cannot always get access to travel to these clubs or are just not interested in travelling to the other side of town.

The proposal is to set up a Boxing Club in Broadfield, covering Bewbush, Gossops Green, Tilgate area to provide a facility which will draw in diverse people from the area, hard to reach people who may not mix with each other. This would be a great opportunity to work with community cohesion and bring together youngsters with possible extremist views on politics and religion, to work together in sport.

We would only be starting out small and probably over subscribed so any overflow we could encourage to attend the other more experienced clubs with the possibility of transport (Crawley Community Transport).

We have the support of WSCC, CBC, Crawley Police, Crawley ABC and Keystone ABC. A planning meeting is being arranged involving the above and local community leaders to get this project off the ground and something hopefully started for the Summer 2010.

Please contact me for any further information or any suggestions you may have Cllr Lee Gilroy 07593141806 or lee.gilroy@crawley.gov.uk

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