{"id":694355,"date":"2026-07-16T06:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694355\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T06:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:51:12","slug":"homeless-boxing-club-finds-new-premises-at-coventry-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694355\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless boxing club finds new premises at Coventry school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re feeling good about this, [I&#8217;m] looking forward going to work in partnership with the school,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve still got a few hurdles to jump over before we get there, [but] it will be great.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darbar said there was currently no timescale for how long they could use the school site, but members of the club were really positive about the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re looking forward to it, so we just need to arrange the final setup, [work out] when we can start and we can get going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While there&#8217;s no reopening date for the club, the new agreement has provided Triumph with a base, free of charge, into September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darbar thanked Taiwo Owatemi, Labour MP for Coventry North West for her &#8220;swift action and determination&#8221; to secure the school site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Owatemi told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> she wanted to &#8220;bring people together and do the practical work needed to help Triumph Boxing Club find somewhere it could continue operating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woodfield School Principal, Nico de Groot, and Declan Connolly, Sport &amp; Physical Activity Development Manager at Coventry City Council for helping with finding a new site, were also thanked by Darbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;re feeling good about this, [I&#8217;m] looking forward going to work in partnership with the school,&#8221; he said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694355","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\/694355","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=694355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}