For those of you who don't know us, Dan and I have been running GMT Boxing together for the last 2 years. GMT was founded 3 years ago by myself (Alex) as a 1-to-1 boxing coaching service. A year into coaching I had the opportunity to coach Dan (best friend of 15 years) for his second boxing match. The camp ran perfectly and Dan won a hard fought close fight. After which it was obvious that Dan had to join the team. 

We are both keen researchers and learners and our long friendship was originally built around us being training partners, we've spent over a decade studying and refining our knowledge of training that we fnow into this business. At a young age we would meet up in the parks of Hackney and train as often as we could. We even managed to get new public workout equipment installed in London fields and Millfields Park after we campaigned through local authorities and eventually hackney council when we were just 16 years old. We have always had passion for bringing the community together around exercise and healthy living. 

After Dan's fight we introduced something that we had explored during that fight camp, now a key component of the business; our strength and mobility program. A carefully curated program based off our thorough research designed to help you overcome weakness and impingements made common by the modern/working/sedentary lifestyle, to prevent and recover from injury and boost athleticism. The success we had with our private clients was astonishing. We quickly realised the impact we could have on peoples quality of life if they could access our services.

It became clear that we had a strong vocation to share this information and help as many people as possible. So we launched group classes in the park of Hackney Downs. We did this with the intention of making the classes as valuable and accessible as possible for all members of the community. We have had great success with our current clients but the job is not over. 

We have big plans for GMT Boxing and the impact it can have on the people of Hackney and the wider London community. We are hoping to raise some money to help us spread the message, build our profile and reach more people with our services. While we are very happy with our impact so far we aim to host classes for all ages, genders, races, sexualities and abilities. We want to work with a range of charities and organisations, many of which we have already connected with. The aim is simply to maximise our impact and add real value to our community. 

However, our concept of being a community business is not limited to the scope of our own services we also believe in trying to facilitate community engagement by directing people back into their local community. We have initiatives with local businesses and services that we value to facilitate and encourage people to support local business and to stop putting money in big chain cooperations. We encourage a healthy lifestyle and big part of that for us is integrating into your community. 

We have the short term need to find an indoor space for winter but we have a long-term goal of having a multipurpose community premise to champion not only health and wellness practices but also local art, food and music, all things which add value and should be shared and enjoyed together. If you support our ideas we would appreciate any help you can give us however big or small. If you can't support us with a donation simply following us on instagram and engaging with our content would mean a lot to us. Thank you for taking time to read our story and helping us on our journey!