{"id":339821,"date":"2025-12-28T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339821\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:26:08","slug":"nottingham-boxing-club-moves-to-bigger-and-better-home-at-business-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339821\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham boxing club moves to &#8216;bigger and better&#8217; home at business park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The club says it supports more than 80 members<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_JAJ_TEM_140120Colwick_001JPG.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Private Road No.2 in Colwick Estate, Nottingham.&#10;\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The gym is based in a unit off Private Road No.2 at Colwick Quays Business Park(Image: Joseph Raynor\/ Nottingham Post)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">An amateur <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/news\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Nottingham<\/a> boxing club has moved to a &#8220;bigger and better&#8221; new home at a business park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Nottingham Boxing and Fitness Centre opened at an industrial unit at Colwick Quays Business Park earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The enterprise, previously known as <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/all-about\/sneinton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Sneinton<\/a> Amateur Boxing Club, was based at the Greenway Centre but said the two-mile move would allow it to &#8220;expand their outreach, deliver more community programmes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A planning application was submitted at the beginning of December and is pending the approval of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/all-about\/gedling\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Gedling<\/a> Borough Council, but the gym opened for business on December 15, according to its social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The club is a non-profit venture &#8220;dedicated to improving the lives of young people and adults through boxing, fitness, and structured mentorship&#8221;, supporting more than 80 members, according to the application to take over one of the business park&#8217;s 13 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;The club provides accessible boxing coaching, mentoring, and free academic tutoring for children who are struggling at school,&#8221; documents read.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_47-Trent-Ln-Google-Maps-12-28-2025_11_53_AM.png\" alt=\"The club used to be based at the Greenway Centre in Sneinton\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The club used to be based at the Greenway Centre in Sneinton(Image: Google)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;The club also works closely with local schools and community organisations to support young people at risk of exclusion, anti-social behaviour, or vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;The club\u2019s female-only sessions, low-cost community classes, and subsidised places ensure that their services remain inclusive and open to all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The boxing gym will be open over the weekend and evenings when most of the other businesses within the complex are unoccupied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club says it supports more than 80 membersThe gym is based in a unit off Private Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,131925,125456,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-339821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-colwick","10":"tag-sneinton","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339821","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=339821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}