BOXING IS LOVE FLAGSHIP PROGRAMME
Boxing-led social sciences education for young people who’ve lost connection with learning.
Our programme combines non-contact boxing with national curriculum subjects like economics, sociology, politics, history, and media to re-engage young people struggling in school or at risk of exclusion. We help students see learning as relevant, dynamic, and connected to their lives.
WHO?
The programme is delivered through our partners
Schools, Youth centres, pupil referral units, existing boxing gyms and charities.
AGES 11-18
Designed for secondary school-age young people disengaged from learning.
We tailor our programme to suit different age groups and learning abilities within this range.
STRUCTURE
8 or 12-week terms,
1.5 hour session per week
The programme runs in 12-week terms, tailored to partner schedules. Each session combines 50 minutes of boxing with a 40-minute education workshop.
Boxing & Equipment
Our Coaches
○ Professional boxing qualifications (Level 2/3)
○ Experience in youth education settings
○ Enhanced DBS & safeguarding training
The Skills Covered
○ Youths develop boxing fundamentals, including stance, footwork, punches, and defense
○ Discipline, Resilience, and Emotional regulation through control, strategy and forethough (Hills, 2017)
Equipment
○ All youths are provided with gloves, with wraps and a BOXRAW T-shirt given as rewards throughout the programme.
○ All youths are provided with a BiL workbook for education workshop activities and session reflections.
Education Workshops
Our Subjects
○ History, Economics, Politics, Sociology, Media
Our Teachers
○ Our teachers are all trained by Boxing is Love.
○ They have at least 2:1 or 3.5 GPA from a recognisable university with a relevant degree.
○ They have extensive experience teaching in a classroom setting
○ All teachers also attend the boxing session to build rapport.
Sample List of Topics and Lesson
○ These are designed to spark curiosity, with the lessons exploring the topics through boxing stories, figures, and historical examples. Download
○ This is a sample lesson plan illustrating how discussions, roleplay, and multimedia is used Download
BOXING IS LOVE FLAGSHIP PROGRAMME
Boxing-led social sciences education for young people who’ve lost connection with learning.
Our programme combines non-contact boxing with national curriculum subjects like economics, sociology, politics, history, and media to re-engage young people struggling in school or at risk of exclusion. We help students see learning as relevant, dynamic, and connected to their lives.
SAMPLE LESSON SLIDES
Why not experience a session with us?
After 50 minutes of boxing, gather with your new friends for a short workshop on the symbolic showdown between Max Schmeling and Joe Louis, a battle between dictatorship and democracy in the ring.
Perhaps the next time politics or power comes up in class, they'll remember two boxers, that moment in history, and the conversation where it all suddenly made sense.
WHY THE PROGRAMME MATTERS
Youths face overlapping systems of inequality of class, race, gender, geographical location, and the aftermath of Covid will continue to compound these challenges if left unaddressed.
Covid has left an irreversible mark on the socio-emotional development and academic engagement of youths, especially among disadvantaged pupils and girls (Jerrim, 2025).
47%
Parents said their child’s social and emotional skills declined in the first year of COVID-19.
Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2023
Educational damage caused by the pandemic will mean Poorer academic results well into the
2030
Nuffield Foundation, 2024
1 IN 4
pupils disengage from school in first year of secondary
ImpactEd Group, 2025
The attainment gap is widest for disadvantaged pupils in a decade for
11-16 YO
UK Parliament, 2024
We believe that
everyone should be given the chance to learn through what they love, and for us, that love is boxing.
