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Oliver Plunkett Amateur Boxing Club

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  • Charity no. 101354
  • Date registered. 20/01/2015

Public benefits

Purpose of boxing club: to educate, assist young people aged 8-18yrs through boxing and other recreational activities to develop their physical fitness and mental and emotional capacities to improve their life. The benefit that flows from our purpose is increased health and increased social inclusion leading to improved community life through

sport. evidenced through: Increase membership, some of the boxers will advance into boxing tournaments, other young people will advance in their lifestyle by becoming fitter and have a healthier lifestyle through training. Harm: All boxers must have a medical card which is signed by their doctor to show them fit to box. At every tournament a doctor and medics are onsite. There is no private benefit flowing from our purpose.

What your organisation does

The Oliver Plunkett Boxing Club offers the opportunity for volunteers within the community to get involved in their local boxing club and develop coaching skills and training to young people. We successfully work towards social inclusion and work to alieviate disadvantaged and anti-social behaviour. Our work is to offer alternative healthy

lifestyles and through the medium of boxing we wish to develop our outreach services. We work with a mixture of people and also minority groups. We have built partnerships on a cross community scale both nationally and internationally. We offer an alternative positive approach to young people and adults.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of amateur sport

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Sport/recreation

Charitable purposes

The Club is established to promote the preservation and protection of health by the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure-time occupation in the interests of social welfare for the benefit of the general public in Anderstown and its environs in West Belfast (hereinafter called 'the area of benefit') without regard to age,ability, disability, ethnic identity, nationality or religion and in particular: a) educate and assist young people aged 8 to 18 through boxing and other recreational activities so as to develop their physical fitness, mental and emotional capacities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and citizens and that their conditions of life may be improved.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

  • 7 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 0 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Mr Colin Mcallister
  • Mr Patsy Mcallister
  • Ms Georgina Timmons
  • Mr Gerard Mcallister
  • Miss Karen Timmons
  • Mr Gary Cowan
  • Mrs Dolores Gowdy

Contact details

Public Address

Oliver Plunkett Abc, 32 South Link, Belfast, BT11 8GX

List of regions

  • Antrim And Newtownabbey Borough Council

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