{"id":767590,"date":"2026-09-11T19:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767590\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:40:26","slug":"new-earswick-boxing-club-gets-york-st-john-uni-gym-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767590\/","title":{"rendered":"New Earswick boxing club gets York St John Uni gym donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/24813843.new-earswick-boxing-ko-kindness-club---work-underway\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charlie Malarkey\u2019s New Ways Boxing Club<\/a> is being built on the outskirts of York at the New Earswick Sports Ground, with recent progress boosted by a donation of gym equipment from York St John University.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Recommended reading:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Charlie said: &#8220;The floor is down now and the windows are going in next week, so things are really coming on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This donation from York St John is absolutely fantastic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They have donated all their old equipment, from a rowing machine to all the weights \u2013 you name it, we&#8217;ve got it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The club also supports the Knives Down Gloves Up campaign, encouraging youth to choose boxing over knife crime.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Adam Stead, managing director at ADS Scaffolding, has supported the project throughout construction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Stead said: &#8220;It&#8217;s to encourage young people to pick up some boxing gloves instead of carrying knives \u2013 instead of potentially taking someone&#8217;s life away and ruining your own.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Malarkey has worked for the Salvation Army for 17 years and leads its early intervention and prevention team in York.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Former professional boxer Jamie Warters will help coach once the club opens and has said he is eager to get started.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Malarkey said: &#8220;The police have been in touch with me and said they have kids as young as 11 who are desperate for it to open.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;No one is making a bean out if this, it&#8217;s a charity working for the community.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anyone able to support the project can contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/26541504.new-earswick-boxing-club-gets-york-st-john-uni-gym-donation\/mailto:Charles.Malarkey@salvationarmy.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charles.Malarkey@salvationarmy.org.uk<\/a> or call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/26541504.new-earswick-boxing-club-gets-york-st-john-uni-gym-donation\/tel:07712443163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">07712443163<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Malarkey\u2019s New Ways Boxing Club is being built on the outskirts of York at the New Earswick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767590","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\/767590","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=767590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}