Guernsey’s boxing club has had it future secured “for 100 years” after raising \u00a31m, leaders say.<\/p>\n
The Guernsey Amalgamated Boxing Club has been based in its St Martin’s building since 1935, but members said the site was now “essentially falling down”.<\/p>\n
Members set out to raise the mammoth amount a year ago and, through the efforts of volunteers and donations from the community, they now had enough money to refurbish the facility into a state-of-the-art club building, leaders said.<\/p>\n
The club said “elated was an understatement” after it reached the target, and it was predicting work on the site would begin in 2027.<\/p>\n
The Guernsey Amalgamated Boxing Club has been credited with helping boost the profile of the sport on the island.<\/p>\n
Former English super-flyweight champion Brad Watson and Billy le Poullain are among many fighters to come through the ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guernsey’s boxing club has had it future secured “for 100 years” after raising \u00a31m, leaders say. The Guernsey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-763178","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\/763178","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=763178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}