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BIZ: The Boxing Inclusion Zone’s Efforts Recognised

A Police Clubs GB flagship club – ‘The BIZ Boxing Gym’ knocked out all comers at the fifth county-wide Surrey Sports Awards as it was named Sports Project of the Year.
Representatives from the BIZ in Addlestone Surrey attended a glitzy awards ceremony in Guildford in November.
After taking home the inaugural High Sheriff Awards ‘Sports Project of the Year Award’, Dr Brian Perry, chairman of the BIZ said: “It was a tremendous achievement for everyone involved at the gym. We are immensely proud and honored to be the first recipient of this prestigious award. Our success is down to the hard work of the team of volunteers in any capacity for the club.”
The awards were organized by Active Surrey in partnership with the High Sheriff Youth Awards. The brand new award was designed to recognize a sports project that has tackled bad behavior with the aim of making a community safer and giving young people a sporting focus.
Dr Perry was joined at the awards ceremony by trustee PC Dusty Rhodes Runnymede Police Youth Intervention Officer and Boxing Leader volunteer Catherine Sproston as well as Kennedy Aitkin and Jordan Pannone, amateur boxers from the Runnymede Police Boxing Club. Boxers at the RPBC are currently coached by Tony Davis England Advanced Coach supported by 5 ABAE Assistant Coaches. The BIZ is an integral section of the Police Clubs of Great Britain.
The BIZ beat off Colne Valley Girls and Ladies Football Club and Pitstop Wanderers Football Club to win the prize.
More information about the work of the BIZ can be found by visiting their website at www.boxinginclusionzone.biz

Bradford Police & College Boxing Academy Featured In A Great New Video

Women may, for some inexplicable reason, have been completely missed off the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist, but this video about women’s boxing at the Bradford Police & College Boxing Academy, the PCCGB’s flagship boxing project, puts that right, at least on a West Yorkshire level!
Click here to watch the video.
Congratulations to the media students from the University of Bradford who produced this – it’s being aired on a giant screen in the centre of Bradford for the whole of the next year.