Chester Police ABC was established in the year 2000 and is on the outskirts of Chester City Centre. During the last 9 years Chester Police ABC has developed into a successful amateur boxing club and now has over 100 members from the local community. The aim of the club is not only to produce boxing champions, but also to welcome men, women and children from all different social and cultural backgrounds.
The gym has been involved in teaching children with learning difficulties and physical disabilities and giving them confidence and social skills to become involved with other sections of their community. Through boxing training they have learnt to focus and apply themselves to learning and improving a new skill in a busy environment, where they have to integrate with new people. The gym has also welcomed many young people with behavioural problems, and aims to provide them with the discipline and support they need to help them help themselves to progress and live as part of society. The intense training not only teaches self discipline but also gives children something to commit to, and targets to work towards, so that they are putting their efforts into their training rather than getting into trouble on the streets, at home or in school.
As well as training children, Chester Police ABC has been involved with the charity Turning Point, which helps to rehabilitate drug abusers. The gym has accepted adults from Turning Point who have proved that through focusing on their training they can stay off drugs and gain a much more positive outlook on life. Chester ABC has a policy to ensure a safe and supervised environment for the children training in the gym at all times and is careful to accept people from charities such as Turning Point who have already proved they are serious and committed to changing their lives.
Chester Police ABC is a registered charity and has 5 coaches who are all volunteers from the Chester area. This includes a rehabilitated cocaine addict who came to the gym from Turning Point last year and also a female coach.
At the gym we firmly believe that all our personnel have the right attitude for the club to continue to be successful and expand. As a charity we look for grants and sponsorship to allow us to do this and continue to provide what we believe is an important project in our society, and membership of the Police Community Clubs of Great Britain is as integral to our plans for the future as it has been to past successes.
Steve Goodwin and Pete Buckley (call 01244 342012 for further information).
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