{"id":444504,"date":"2026-02-25T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444504\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:07:07","slug":"oxfordshire-boxing-club-says-it-keeps-kids-off-streets-but-cannot-get-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444504\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxfordshire boxing club says it keeps kids off streets but cannot get funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Banbury, Dave Earle MBE has been running classes at his Spit &#8216;N&#8217; Sawdust gym for more than 20 years but has always found it difficult asking for financial support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Most people who come to this gym don&#8217;t come for the boxing they come to build their confidence up,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has offered affordable classes at about \u00a35 for people struggling with their mental health, alcohol and drug addiction and is now running a class for children who are neurodiverse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You want to do the right thing and I love doing the right thing, but sometimes it makes it difficult paying the bills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A HMRC spokesperson said: &#8220;The Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) scheme provides tax reliefs to support grassroots clubs, and we keep the eligibility criteria under review to ensure they remain effective in helping community organisations thrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Banbury, Dave Earle MBE has been running classes at his Spit &#8216;N&#8217; Sawdust gym for more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-444504","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\/444504","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=444504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}