{"id":95916,"date":"2025-08-27T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/95916\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:32:08","slug":"new-earswick-boxing-ko-for-kindness-takes-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/95916\/","title":{"rendered":"New Earswick Boxing (KO) for Kindness takes step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n    The roof is now going on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/24813843.new-earswick-boxing-ko-kindness-club---work-underway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Malarkey&#8217;s New Earswick Boxing (KO) for Kindness<\/a>\u00a0club building on the outskirts of the city.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Recommended reading:\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    The New Earswick Sports Club, which aims to get people off the streets and give them a purpose in life, is partially complete with the roof and floor the next big projects.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Ahead of the roof going on, organisers have launched a Knives Down Gloves Up campaign to encourage youngsters to take up boxing rather than carrying knives.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Adam Stead managing director at ADS Scaffolding has been helping Charlie with every stage of the build.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    He said: &#8220;It&#8217;s to encourage young people to pick up some boxing gloves instead of carrying knives &#8211; instead of potentially taking someone&#8217;s life away and ruining your own.&#8221;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Charlie\u00a0has worked for the Salvation Army\u00a0for 17 years and leads its early intervention and prevention team in York.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    He said the next phase of the build will be to put the roof on and complete the floor.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Adam said: &#8220;We would love to encourage local businesses to come forward.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    &#8220;We have been in touch with JMark Construction and they are helping getting funding for the concrete floors and Simpsons are helping with the changing room fitting out.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    &#8220;Pinnacle Conservation have provided free labour doing the block work up to the damp proof course\u00a0and providing two men for two weeks working for free.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    &#8220;ADS has provided the scaffolding for free and bricklayer Wayne Lee has been provided by ADS.&#8221;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Hopefully the roof will be on by the last week in September.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Former pro boxer Jamie Warters will be helping with coaching when the club is up and running and has said he can&#8217;t wait for the doors to open.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Charlie said: &#8220;We are trying to get funding for the floor as we need to get this place open as soon as possible &#8211; 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 who thinks they can help in any way, please contact\u00a0Charles.Malarkey@salvationarmy.org.uk or phone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkpress.co.uk\/news\/25416898.new-earswick-boxing-ko-kindness-takes-step-forward\/tel:07712443163\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">07712443163<\/a>.\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The roof is now going on\u00a0Charlie Malarkey&#8217;s New Earswick Boxing (KO) for Kindness\u00a0club building on the outskirts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-95916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95916","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=95916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}