Bright Star Boxing Club in Shropshire uses a trauma-informed approach to support the 450 young people on its programmes and improve their life chances.

The potential of boxing to prevent crime and violence and turn lives around is being under-exploited within the criminal justice sector. 

Marvin King hopes to guide young people through adversity towards success through a new project with The Ring Boxing Club Foundation.

Pro boxer Joe Maphosa has become an Ambassador for the Alliance of Sport and the Levelling the Playing Field project.

Serving offenders from HMP Thorn Cross have begun working with young people at risk of school exclusions on a boxing programme in Cheshire – with immediate results for both parties. 

Alliance of Sport members Boxing Futures have showcased their ever-growing impact with a powerful video depicting one young person's transformation through sport.

The Alliance of Sport has completed a Sport England-funded pilot project in two secure establishments in Kent which tested the effectiveness of sports clubs on reducing offending. 

Read how the award-winning charity Boxing Futures use the sport to tackle mental health, wellbeing and social isolation with people in and around the criminal justice system.