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.
Our Subjects
○ History, Economics, Politics, Sociology, Media
Sample List of Topics
○ These are designed to spark curiosity, with the lessons exploring the topics through boxing stories, figures, and historical examples.
Sample Lesson
○ This is a sample lesson plan illustrating how discussions, roleplays, and multimedia is used
See a visualised sample topic
Our programme combines developing soft skills and learning GCSE subjects with non-contact boxing to re-engage young people who struggle in school, lack confidence, or are at risk of exclusion. Subjects like economics, sociology, politics, history, and media are included to help students reimagine learning as relevant, dynamic, and connected to their own lives.
Our programme combines boxing with academic workshops. Boxing builds focus, resilience, and teamwork, while workshops use real-world examples. For example, Ali and the civil rights movement or Cuban boxing under Castro's rule, to explore sociology, politics, and inequality. Students engage in discussions, roleplays, and multimedia activities to see how learning about the world around them can be active, relevant, and meaningful. The level and proportion of academic content are tailored to different stages across KS2, KS3, and KS4.
The programme runs in multiple 8-week terms, with 1.5-hour sessions each week. Youths develop boxing fundamentals, including stance, footwork, punches, and defense, while academic lessons are structured by learning about identity, roles, institutions, structures, beliefs, resources, and boundaries through boxing stories, figures and history. Learning objectives are linked to the GCSE curriculum, making the sessions structured, relevant, and engaging.
Research shows that Boxing have been shown to improve children’s self-concept, including their physical, social, and academic self-perceptions. Training enhances confidence, perceived fitness, body satisfaction, and social acceptance, which in turn boosts self-worth and encourages more active participation, especially benefiting children who may struggle in school or face social challenges (Rahe, et al., 2024).
Furthermore, research shows that sport can be an effective hook to engage young people, attracting them with something they are passionate about and using that connection to introduce learning and development opportunities (Hills, 2017)
The programme runs in 8-week terms, with each term including eight 90-minute sessions. Pricing depends on cohort size and key stage. Schools that book a 16-week programme receive a 10% discount. Each term features different lessons. Gloves are provided, and every participant receives their own wraps and a BOXRAW T-shirt at no extra cost.
All profits go back to the charity to support our work.
FAQ
PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOLS
Covid has left an irreversible mark on the socio-emotional development and academic engagement of youths, especially among disadvantaged pupils and girls (Jerrim, 2025). Our boxing and education programme exists to help develop resilience, and re-engage them with learning in ways that are active, supportive, and rewarding to discover.
About the Programme
Explore the issues we tackle
Almost half of parents (47%) said their child’s social and emotional skills declined in the first year of COVID-19.
"Almost half of children saw their social and emotional skills worsen during the pandemic – and economic turbulence played a role" - Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2023
Educational damage caused by the pandemic will mean Poorer GCSE results well into the 2030s
"COVID-19 and social mobility: life prospects in a post-pandemic world" - Nuffield Foundation, 2024
1 in 4 pupils disengage from school in first year of secondary
"Mind the Engagement Gap: A National Study of Pupil Engagement in England’s Schools" - ImpactEd Group, 2025
The attainment gap is widest for disadvantaged pupils in a decade for 11–16-year-olds.
"Education: inequalities and attainment gaps" - UK Parliament, 2024
Sample Topic
“Why do some people have more opportunities than others?”
Objective: Use sociological theories to understand social issues, debates, social changes and continuities over time through Cuban Boxing
We believe that
everyone should be given the chance to learn through what they love, and for us, that love is boxing.
