Help buy full boxing kit bag for Ryton ABC

Ryton ABC needs your help to purchase a full competition kit bag with AIBA-approved fight gear to allow our boxers to compete this season. Ryton ABC has not competed since before 2015, and there is no kit bag. A kit bag needs to include; head guards, wraps, groin guards, water bottles, towels, bag, strips etc. A single AIBA head guard can cost up to £100 each. Head guards are needed both in red and blue and in multiple sizes. It is estimated that the kit bag will cost around ~£800 for everything. Given that the club just got up and running again in April 2022, it will be an onerous financial burden to swallow without the support of generous donations. Please help us get off the ground and get our boxers boxing by sponsoring us to buy a kit bag and continue on the Ryton ABC journey.

Thank you from the coaching staff and Boxers of Ryton ABC.

Further Background

Ryton Amateur Boxing Club is a not-for-profit community organisation offering boxing coaching to a huge of range of local people (boys, girls, men, women, senior citizens, diverse ethnicities, different cultures/backgrounds, persons with special needs / disabilities etc.). The club had been closed since 2020 due to Covid restrictions and was at the point of folding until a local team of volunteers stepped forward to take over from the previous leadership who had run Ryton ABC since 1985. We relaunched only in April 2022 and have been overwhelmed with interest with both our Junior and Senior sessions being jam-packed with enthusiastic and hard working members. All of our coaches are volunteers and are ABA accredited, DBS checked, First Aid trained and Safeguarding trained, with all of these training costs being on top of usual small business over heads. The club is funded mainly by donations and grants which allows us to keep our admission fees very low to ensure that our community facility remains accessible to all. Since reopening we already have over eighty members with numbers growing week by week.

The club provides the following benefits to the local community;

• Helps to keep children and young adults off the streets.

• Helps build confidence, self-esteem, discipline and relieve stress.

• Helps to combat the mental health pandemic left by COVID Encourages healthy living and active lifestyle.

• Provides safe facility, environment and supervised training for people who want to take part in boxing training.

• Opportunity of competition boxing up to national level.