{"id":315654,"date":"2025-12-14T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315654\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T13:51:07","slug":"city-academy-steps-in-to-support-barton-hill-amateur-boxing-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315654\/","title":{"rendered":"City Academy steps in to support Barton Hill Amateur Boxing Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An academy has stepped in to support an amateur boxing club after its owners sold its previous base. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barton Hill Amateur Boxing Club (ABC)&#8217;s home was sold by owners, Wellspring Settlement, in March leaving the club without a permanent base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City Academy, in Easton, Bristol, has opened up space at their premises for the amateur boxers to use while a future solution is found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Tucker, principal of City Academy, said: &#8220;Barton Hill ABC has been an important part of this community for generations, and we weren&#8217;t prepared to see that legacy put at risk.&#8221; Wellspring Settlement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpq9vvyy3ggo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously told the BBC<\/a> the building housing the club was &#8220;a financial liability we can no longer afford to maintain&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An academy has stepped in to support an amateur boxing club after its owners sold its previous base.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-315654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315654","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=315654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}