{"id":200840,"date":"2025-10-15T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200840\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:50:10","slug":"leigh-park-boxing-club-is-family-to-young-people-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200840\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Park boxing club is &#8216;family&#8217; to young people in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bobby, 16, goes to the club three times a week and said: &#8220;It&#8217;s like a family to me now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sporting a recent black eye, he explained how boxing had helped him with his physical and mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s literally like a social club, you socialise with your mates, you box, so there&#8217;s nothing really that you can&#8217;t like about it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Others at the club have described how it has helped keep them on the right track and supported them finding apprenticeships and work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shakila, who is 28, said the club provided a &#8220;home away from home&#8221; for young people going through difficult times, allowing them to channel their anger and &#8220;connect with their emotions, rather than bottling them up&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bobby, 16, goes to the club three times a week and said: &#8220;It&#8217;s like a family to me&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-200840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}