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At our new venue, along with the gym, there is a separate space which we would like ...
Aim: Impact Fitness: creating safe and inclusive gym for disadvantaged communities living in deprivation. We need funds to help with equipment.
We have acquired our 'new home'- 'a safe and inclusive space' gym located in Birmingham inner city area, B11. We require some funding to help set it up.
WHO WE ARE: Impact Fitness Academy, CIC established in 2016. We are a sports development club. We are focused on sports as a route to engaging socially, economically, and culturally disadvantaged children, young people, women and families living in inner city areas of Birmingham. Our purpose is to help transform lives by creating a sports facility which will be accessible to all communities, in particular disadvantaged and excluded communities. By offering a ‘safe and inclusive space’ to be active, become healthy, build resilience and develop skills to realise their sporting potential.
Our programmes include Freestyle Wrestling, Boxing and Body conditioning classes, training, volunteering, coaching opportunities, and career pathway plans. At present we offer Wrestling programmes from grassroots to national and European competitive level. We plan to offer the same opportunities through Boxing once we are fully equipped with a Boxing ring.
WHO WE WORK WITH AND WHY: We reach out and connect with disenfranchised children and young people (aged 5 to 17) and families, particularly from black and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, in areas where community centres, youth groups struggle to engage; with low life prospects and high unemployment; low education attainment and high risk of exposure to disruptive anti-social behaviours (drugs, substance, alcohol abuse, criminality, street gang violence); with high health disparities; as recently demonstrated by the Covid19 pandemic.
WHAT WE DO: We enable and encourage individuals to build skills, self confidence and improve their emotional and physical well being. By engaging with physical activity, promoting being active and remaining active, making positive lifestyle choices; developing life skills and realising sporting aspiration to reach potential. Our programmes are aligned to 3 key strands:
1.Sport/ Community engagement: RISE: our free Wrestling programme, a staged approach to engaging children and young people (aged 5-17) from getting active (engagement); to remain active (progression); to develop potential sports career pathways (legacy).
2.Sport Development and Progression: to generate our own income through trading, we offer a range of fee paying, membership based classes for children, young people and adults.
3.Getting Active/ Wellbeing Programmes (Covid19 response plan): These are in development, pending the set up of our 'safe and inclusive space' gym.
WHAT WE NEED FUNDING FOR: In order to deliver our planned programmes we have acquired a new venue, in the heart of Birmingham’s inner city, on the boarders Sparkhill and Tyesley in B11. This is an exciting opportunity for us to create a ‘safe and inclusive space’ gym which will be accessible for all our members. However, in order for the gym to be fully operational, safe and fit for purpose we need to carry out some minor renovations work and buy the necessary Wrestling and Boxing training equipment.
All the monies we collect from this crowd funder will go towards the cost of the following items listed below.
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES OUR WORK MAKE : Our programmes are alternative to being on the streets, learning antisocial behaviours, youth offending, adopting unhealthy lifestyles. Our programmes focus on being active, healthy, developing skills, confidence, resilience and determination. Students are being prepared for greatness, by falling in love with sports, finding other avenues to express themselves - their lives are transformed. As they increase their fitness levels and start to see what they are capable of, they start believing in themselves, developing ambition, potential, self belief and become health conscious adults.
Key Individual Outcomes:
Some of our Successes include:
Our vision and legacy will be training young, children and young people to be representing team GB as professional Wrestlers/ Boxers in future commonwealth and Olympic games.
Testimonials-Parents of some our our students told us:
Sport England - Places and Spaces has provided £10,000 of match funding