{"id":237491,"date":"2025-11-01T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237491\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:48:08","slug":"boxing-gave-me-something-to-fight-for-says-coach-from-norwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237491\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing gave me something to fight for, says coach from Norwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thrive Boxing Team, which was founded in 2023, said it helped children and young people build resilience, confidence and a sense of belonging inside and outside of the ring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Norfolk, who is its founder and lead coach, got into the sport after experiencing addition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said boxing became the &#8220;turning point&#8221; and gave her structure, discipline, &#8220;and something bigger to fight for&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Norfolk, who is also a social worker and manager within child and adolescent mental health services, said the sport allows her to build trusting relationships with her students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One young boxer with a history of criminal offences became a part of the club and &#8220;changed their life around&#8221;, Ms Norfolk said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another one of her students told the BBC: &#8220;She is not just a coach she is like a mum as well and it is nice to have her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Norfolk said: &#8220;We create a really good culture, we celebrate diversity here, and every single person who walks through the door, who might feel a little bit nervous or uncomfortable, always walks out feeling like a champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thrive Boxing Team, which was founded in 2023, said it helped children and young people build resilience, confidence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-237491","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\/237491","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=237491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}