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Empire Fighting Chance helps Young people improve their mental health, exit gangs, return to school, get work and go onto realise their unique potential. Our vision is to have an outstanding portfolio of non-contact boxing and personal development programmes delivered in Bristol & across the UK.
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Situation
We exist to support young people, aged 8-25, who face disadvantage and adversity. COVID-19 has intensified their struggles. Most of the young people we support live in poverty, poor housing and workless households. Faced with conditions that are toxic to wellbeing, young people struggle with their mental health. Their distress is often expressed in ways that can lead them into trouble rather than care and support, including poor behaviour in school, substance misuse and gang crime.
Solution
We have created a ground-breaking fusion of non-contact boxing and psychology to enable young people to overcome the adversity they face, improve their mental health and realise their unique potential. Our programmes use boxing as the hook, weaving in intensive mentoring, therapy & careers support which gives young people skills, knowledge and inspiration to make positive changes to how they think and behave and to take steps to improve their lives.
