Our impact
Empire Fighting Chance
Empire Fighting Chance was born out of an amateur boxing club and is a Bristol based charity using boxing to support young people experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties.
What it does
Empire Fighting Chance delivers psychologically informed boxing programmes for young people. Through its Boxing Therapy offer, qualified therapists combine non contact boxing with talking therapy to provide a structured, engaging setting where young people can explore their feelings, behaviours and mental health.
What we fund
Our funding supports the delivery and scale of Empire Fighting Chance’s Boxing Therapy programme, an intervention delivered by qualified therapists that combines physical exercise and training discipline with talking therapy. We are also supporting the development of a training model to enable therapists in other parts of the country to adopt and deliver this approach at greater scale.
We have been able to train and support organisations using Box Therapy across the UK. For example, some of these partners are working across South London using Box Therapy to tackle serious youth violence. Thanks to Prudence Trust we are helping to engage young people and save lives beyond Bristol.
