Boxing club fights back crime as antisocial behaviour reports in Derbyshire town halved - video Dailymotion

Derbyshire Times

Derbyshire police are working with a Heanor boxing club to offer classes to young people at risk of becoming involved in crime or problem behaviour. (Credit: Derbyshire Constabulary)

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00:00I think one of the biggest things that youth say to me is they've got nothing to do.

00:04You know, they cause trouble, I've got nothing to do, where else can I go?

00:08So I'm at PCSO College from the Hena and Langley Most Safe Neighbourhood Team.

00:12So I approached Sam Goodwin from the Lions Den Boxing Club around three months ago to

00:18start looking at plans of how we can divert youths at risk of criminal exploitation and

00:23antisocial behaviour into a boxing club where we can divert them from that antisocial behaviour

00:28and criminal exploitation.

00:29I'm Sam Goodwin, I'm the owner and head coach of the Lions Den Boxing Club at Hena.

00:34It's just given them something to do, something to focus on and then when they ran the other

00:38boxers, as you've seen today, when they were mixing in a group that I've previously set

00:42up that was just to get kids off of consoles and off the street and doing something and

00:45now they're progressing further and they're moving into the amateurs and they're doing

00:48better and they're seeing them kids and they're thinking, oh actually, this is better than

00:53messing around on the street, so it's given them a purpose.

00:56To cut a very long story short, as a previous naughty kid off the streets by the police into

01:02a boxing club to now doing it myself, I know it works because I've been through the whole

01:06process myself.

01:07I got into some trouble and then got a phone call and then I got offered a recommendation

01:13to come down to get me off the streets.

01:16The sessions are quite good, they're intense, like high intensity with fitness and all that,

01:22like it gets you discipline wise and all that, so I think it's good for people to get involved

01:28in this sort of stuff really.

01:29Hi, I'm Sasha, a professional boxer here at Lions Den Boxing Club in Hena.

01:34To me, a boxing club, like until I started boxing I didn't realise how community and family

01:39orientated it is.

01:40Like you walk through the gym, even if you're feeling in the worst mood going, you will come

01:44out with a smile on your face and I think that's what it's all about.

01:47My name's Paul, I'm one of the owners of Full Power Fitness which is part of Lions Den Boxing

01:52Club and this is where the sessions take place on a week to week basis with us and we're

01:58delighted to be able to host it locally.

02:00I think boxing is a great sport for kids to get involved in, particularly from a young age

02:05because it teaches, certainly respect is the main thing, discipline and obviously just

02:14giving them an outlet of aggression really and letting off some steam which normally they'd

02:21be running around the streets I guess.

02:23Like we were discussing earlier, once kids have been in there for an hour they've got

02:28their interest in doing anything else elsewhere.

02:30I think for a long time all I've seen is a lot of media attention around the negative

02:36incidents involving youths, not just around Hena but surrounding areas as well.

02:42Whenever there's a negative incident that involves these youths, it has a lot of effect on public

02:49perception and what people think about today's youths and I think getting them involved in

02:54boxing, doing something positive and being able to get that out there and display all

02:58this positive work that's happening with these youths, it shows them in a really positive light

03:03and I really want to see them look at themselves in a positive light.

03:12So we want to have to see them know what's happening in the middle of this.

03:15We're gonna have to get to see them in the middle of this.

03:17And I want to see them in some ways.

03:19So let's take a look and see if it's in an internet, get to be able to get that out there and

03:20get to see them in the middle of this.

Boxing club fights back crime as antisocial behaviour reports in Derbyshire town halved

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