A Doncaster boxing champion is relaunching the youth club he attended as a teenager to give young people “somewhere to go to socialise”.<\/p>\n
Jason Cunningham, who won British, European and Commonwealth titles during a 12-year professional career, will relaunch the club at Brodsworth Miners Welfare, where he already runs a boxing gym.<\/p>\n
After returning to the site while looking for a base for his gym, the 36-year-old decided to widen the scope to bring a sense of community.<\/p>\n
He said: “The idea is to create a place where young people can hang out, make friends and try new things, whether that’s playing pool, making music, recording podcasts or just having somewhere safe to spend time.”<\/p>\n
Cunningham attended the youth club in the late 1990s and early 2000s – and he believed he was one of the last visitors before it closed.<\/p>\n
He met up with James Irwin, chair of Brodsworth Miners Welfare, and they came up with the idea of a combined gym and youth hub.<\/p>\n
Cunningham said they had a “passion to do something” because there was “nothing for the kids to do”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Doncaster boxing champion is relaunching the youth club he attended as a teenager to give young people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738774","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\/738774","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=738774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}