Help make Tower Hamlets a great place to live, work and play
Boxing for the Community in London has reached 90% of its target!7 years ago
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By Factory East Community Project (Charity)
We are a community based local charity and boxing, health, fitness, well-being, bringing the community together and crime prevention is our main area of activity. We are affiliated to England Boxing.
We have been in existence for eight years now – three years as a registered charity and five years as a voluntary organisation – and during this time many people have benefited from our projects and interventions. In 2016 we worked with over 2’000 people of all ages, races, religions, backgrounds and disabilities from five years old through to 60 years old helping them to better their life and make a positive change for their future. We are here to offer the chance of change. Factory East is a support network and a base for training and selfgrowth. We are community people working together with professional experts to assist people to lead a better life. Factory East has seen many Governments change hands and many Mayors change hands and we are still here and still going strong, we have survived these changes and we plan to survive many more. We want to carry on saving, helping, and changing so many people’s lives which we believe we can carry on doing.
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Why it's a great idea:
Factory East is a a great idea because we offer the chance of change. We offer people the chance to better there lives. Not only will people get training from professional qualified trainers where they will become fit and healthy and become more confident, we also push for people to better there lives by getting into college or into a job and we help people do this. We help people gain social skills and become more confident within there selves. Tower Hamlets is still one of the most deprived boroughs in London. Unemployment, gang crime and poverty arerife and many young people do not have a positive outlet for their frustrations. Factory East Community Project alsosupports the surrounding areas of East London. Using the ethos of boxing we are helping to improve the lives of those that might be socially excluded. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment for all the community to learn boxing regardless of ability. We are promoting community cohesion across barriers of age, ge
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We are here to offer the chance of change. Factory East is a support network and a base for training and selfgrowth. We are community people working together with professional experts to assist people to lead a better life. We want to obtain definite leads for support; via direct funding in order to establish a permanent base from which to operate, but also by the provision of paid staff and volunteers to assist in the day to day management and activities of Factory East Community Project. We want to carry on saving lives.
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VolunteerWe are the Winners of the Voluntary Commitment Award 2016 at The Canary Wharf Sports Personality of the Year and Nominee for Group Achievement Award 2016 at The Canary Wharf Sports Personality of the Year.
We are a community based local charity and whilst boxing is currently our main area of activity we have run many other projects. We have been in existence for eight years now – three years as a registered charity and five years as a voluntary organisation – and during this time many people have benefited from our projects and interventions.
Following a massive, coordinated community effort, involving scores of local residents, a local property owner and multiple local companies; we embarked on what turned out to be eight months of extremely hard, but satisfying work, which culminated in the opening of our Factory East Community Gym.
Since opening, we have, with the support of our fifteen committed local volunteers, been able to provide for the massive demand for the project from the local community and cumulatively the community at large.
We run classes, which are always fully subscribed, with numbers, (as recognised by the local authority), exceeding two thousand annually.
All of our work is run by volunteers from the local community, our trustees are from both the local community and further afield as recognition of our work grows.
As we continue to grow, in line with demand from the local community, whose reliance on us as an important part of their lives is demonstrated by their commitment to the Factory East Family, new volunteers and external investment are essential to allow us to provide for this ever increasing demand.
So if you are a potential new volunteer or you would like to make a donation, interested in supporting us please do not hesitate to get in touch, or just come down and say hello.
Project Owner: Factory East Community Project (Charity) The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
