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Our Community Aims
Rehabilitation, Reducing crime and anti- social behaviour while providing competitive boxing opportunities.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield is the second most dangerous medium-sized town in Nottinghamshire, and is among the top 20 most dangerous overall out of Nottinghamshire's 236 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Kirkby-in-Ashfield in 2023 was 134 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Nottinghamshire's overall crime rate, coming in 47% higher than the Nottinghamshire rate of 91 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Kirkby-in-Ashfield is the 34th most dangerous medium-sized town, and the 428th most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
In March 2024, Kirkby-in-Ashfield had the worst crime rate in Nottinghamshire for bicycle theft, with 3 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.20 per 1,000 daytime population. April 2022 was also a bad month for Kirkby-in-Ashfield residents, when it was Nottinghamshire's most dangerous area for robbery, recording 6 crimes at a rate of 0.40 per 1,000 daytime population. Kirkby-in-Ashfield recorded 4 reports of robbery during August 2022, making its crime rate of 0.27 the worst for robbery in Nottinghamshire that month.
The most common crimes in Kirkby-in-Ashfield are violence and sexual offences, with 764 offences during 2023, giving a crime rate of 51. This is 4.9% higher than 2022's figure of 728 offences and a difference of 2.41 from 2022's crime rate of 49. Kirkby-in-Ashfield's least common crime is theft from the person, with 12 offences recorded in 2023, an increase of 33% from 2022's figure of 9 crimes.
SOURCE: https://crimerate.co.uk/nottinghamshire/kirkby-in-ashfield
Equally, it is important as a community to rehabilitate our ex offenders and make them inclusive within society in a positive way. Too many go onto re offend due to not being given a chance in our community. The reality is people change but they will not change if they are educated and shown the opportunities available to them. Boxing is not just a sport, it can be a career, boxing don’t just need boxers, its needs coaches, referee’s, Judge’s, Paramedic’s, Doctor’s, Promoter’s, Manager’s, Security etc. There is a wide assortment of opportunity within the boxing world that’s does not become open to a person unless they are involved. As a club we aim to open these doors and break down the barriers. Some of our heroes in the boxing were convicted of crimes:
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjCsIPG65PhAhUQTBUIHeQFBsoQygQwAXoECAAQBg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FList_of_professional_sportspeople_convicted_of_crimes%23Boxing&usg=AOvVaw1gOj8JU1CpCeD3nOi1yV8U)
Boxing is not discriminate. It is a sport where everyone fits in, no matter what your background, it is not a team sport, its a sport for an individual to thrive amongst there peers in community environment. Boxing reduces crime as it take the anger out of the person, its an educational tool for every day life and is one of the only sports with severe consequences which not only demands respect but teaches respect and discipline. As a club we aim to help reduce these crime numbers by giving people the incentive to achieve and motivate them to put there efforts into a boxing career rather than an excessive rap sheet. This can also help people become more employable and rather than looking at a life of crime to pay their way through life.
Promote mental and physical health while providing competitive boxing opportunities.
As of March 2024, figures from Public Health England suggests that Nottinghamshire is amongst one of the highest areas in the country for being diagnosed with mental health conditions, estimated at every 1 in 6 patients.
(https://www.chad.co.uk/news/nottinghamshire-among-highest-rates-of-depression-in-the-country-1-9265804)
Boxing combats mental health by providing a person a task in which full concentration is needed at all times, You can switch off from the outside world and be present in the moment. It’s an excellent form of stress relief and stimulates endorphin production, whilst at the same time reducing loneliness restricting the possibility of self harm and suicide. Boxing allows you to learn a lot about yourself that you never knew, consistently breaking your barriers with strong support from club members and coaches assisting you to achieve, the confidence you gain is unrivalled by any other sport. You will become stable by boxing and its a great form of anger management where you learn to control your emotions and channel that energy into something positive.
Equally, physical health is just as important, locally in Ashfield as well as mental health, obesity is becoming greater problem. According to Public Health England statistics, Ashfield’s children obesity levels are above the national average and it is believed to be worse amongst the adults.
(https://www.chad.co.uk/news/number-of-overweight-and-obese-children-in-mansfield-is-above-national-average-1-9238642).
Boxing allows you to become healthy by improving your cardio, increasing your total body strength, improves co-ordination, and burns body fat like no other sport, on average a boxing workout can burn around 2000 calories. An average male’s daily calorie intake is 1800 calories thus consistently leaving you in a calorie deficit meaning the elimination of obesity.
Promote Equality & Diversity while providing competitive boxing opportunities.
Ashfield is becoming a more diverse area in all respects of diversity. Recently female boxing has had a great surge in popularity, however, for females in Kirkby In Ashfield there was no other club to reach out to the female demographic for official amateur boxing. Our club aims to champion female boxing and take away the reputation of boxing being a male dominated sport. Times are changing especially with the popular female professionals becoming mainstream such as Nichola Adams, Katie Taylor etc.
Our club is committed to champion equality and diversity and break down any barriers whilst challenging any form of discrimination. We have a zero tolerance policy on discrimination and bullying.
(https://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-eastmidlands.php?cityid=E35001334)
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