PrivateDerby Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 [size=5]Jawaid Khaliq Boxing Academy in Nottingham could close[/size] [size=3]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65245000/jpg/_65245185_jex_7663_de46-1[/size] [size=4]Police said the club has helped them build a relationship with young people[/size] [size=4]A boxing academy which claims to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour will close if it cannot find new premises.[/size] [size=4]The Jawaid Khaliq Boxing Academy is run by the former world champion boxer and his brother, Kamran Khaliq.[/size] [size=4]Police have previously said the club, based in Nottingham, has helped them build up a good relationship with the young people who use it. But the club cannot afford to stay in its current premises and has been unable to find a suitable new venue.[/size] [size=4]Kamran Khaliq said: "Here they [young people] have got something positive; they've got a role model in my brother who was a former world champion boxer, and actually achieved MBE status.[/size] [size=3]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65250000/jpg/_65250296_jawaid_khaliq_body_180x260-1[/size] [size=4]Jawaid Khaliq retired in 2006 after two years without a challenger[/size] [size=4]"Having positive role models in their life will give them aspirations to be great, but if they haven't got that then they are just going to fall into the trap of doing things that may not necessarily be good for their future."[/size] [size=4]The club was previously based in Dakeyne Street, where the rent cost £2,000, but the building was condemned.[/size] [size=4]The club moved to Salisbury Square in November 2011, where Nottingham City Council temporarily provided premises rent-free.[/size] [size=4]But the club cannot afford the £16,000 annual rent it must now pay and must move in four weeks. A spokesman for Nottingham City Council said: "We don't have any suitable property in our stock at such a low rent as their previous premises, but continue to talk to the club and offer assistance where we can.[/size] [size=4]"However, we cannot grant rent-free accommodation indefinitely."[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 I know it's Nottingham but it's still a sick joke, this is what London should be funding! The bobbies up this way did something similar with the Stokie lads and it worked a treat! It's all they need - a bit of attention, good disciplin and someone to look up to but guess what? Exactly the same thing happened.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 They think it will be cheaper when these kids are pushed back to the streets ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 A couple of months ago, there was a £60 something (million £) lottery win unclaimed. What's up with giving causes like this just £1 million of it? It'll keep it open forever. Instead it always seems to go to renovating a remote corner of the Albert Hall, or an already successful ballet troupe somewhere, not that it's a bad thing, but struggling communities are left to struggle all too often. Round here is crying out for some kind of youth club, somewhere for the kids to go, but the odds are high on them never seeing a penny of any funding. It just seems that there isn't an equal divvying up of available money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrivateDerby Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 They think it will be cheaper when these kids are pushed back to the streets ? It must be cheaper for the Police to attend, have the Ambulance on call and the council clean up after them? Unless... and this is just a ridiculous guess and can't possibly be true... the people who make the decisions live no where near these areas and don't care? A couple of months ago, there was a £60 something (million £) lottery win unclaimed. What's up with giving causes like this just £1 million of it? It'll keep it open forever. Instead it always seems to go to renovating a remote corner of the Albert Hall, or an already successful ballet troupe somewhere, not that it's a bad thing, but struggling communities are left to struggle all too often. Round here is crying out for some kind of youth club, somewhere for the kids to go, but the odds are high on them never seeing a penny of any funding. It just seems that there isn't an equal divvying up of available money. Fookin barmy isn't it? I know there's scum and wrongun's but most of them just need something to focus on, I don't just mean boxing I mean anything that interests them. Not far from me a business man bought an old warehouse/garage and filled it full of knackerd mountain bikes, BMX's and a load of tools. He had nearly a hundred lads turning up to fix them up, take them apart and they loved it, especially because he let the girls come and watch 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> Anyway, he asked and asked for a bit of funding as it had just taken off! But nothing..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 That sounds like a cracking idea and it would do well round here, if I were him I'd keep shoving me begging bowl under their noses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brammie Steve Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 This is the sort of thing tha annoys me...Gove again!!!! Why is Gove trashing Mary Seacole? Michael Gove wants to remove the 'black Florence Nightingale' from the national curriculum, but why? [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/hughmuir]Hugh Muir[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian]The Guardian, Sunday 6 January 2013 19.00 GMT http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/4/1357303740864/Mary-Seacole-010 Mary Seacole, Crimean war nurse. Photograph: National Library of Jamaica Life may unfold in dribs and drabs but put them together and pretty soon you have a narrative. And in much the same way, one can look at the stories of recent days about [url=http://www.maryseacole.com/maryseacole/pages/]Mary Seacole, and discern a pattern. Time to knock the black icon off her perch, appears to be the philosophy, and it starts with [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/michaelgove]Michael Gove – who else? [url=http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/mary-seacole-be-removed-national-curriculum]He wants the nurse and her exploits expunged from the national curriculum because once she has gone, there will be more time for Churchill, and to learn the names of all of the kings and queens of England. Time also perhaps for other desirable and modern essentials, such as fagging and Latin. But she's of historical importance, isn't she? No she isn't, say a motley assortment of historians, and guardians of the memory of Florence Nightingale. Into the fray rides the Daily Mail. [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255095/The-black-Florence-Nightingale-making-PC-myth-One-historian-explains-Mary-Seacoles-story-stood-up.html]"The black Florence Nightingale and the making of a PC myth," it says. "One historian explains how Mary Seacole's story never stood up." She wasn't really black, it says. She wasn't really a nurse. She was just a sort of cheery barmaid dispensing bonhomie and medicine. "She undoubtedly did at some point go on to a battlefield dispensing comforts such as wine and doing her best to deal with the odd injury." But, hey, she was no Florence Nightingale. Spare a thought for Lord Soley, for as chair of the [url=http://www.maryseacoleappeal.org.uk/]Mary Seacole memorial statue appeal, he has to deal as diplomatically as he can with those who would traduce her memory for their own purposes. On the day of publication, he patiently composed a letter to the Daily Mail challenging the premise of Seacole as a modern-day construct born of political correctness. His letter has yet to see the light of day. He has cross-party support and military encouragement, but with the ongoing resistance to the idea of a statue and now her dismissal from the curriculum, Soley is faced with a fight on two fronts. And there's no need for it, he tells me. Was she important? Well, the military was quick to honour her. Does she threaten Nightingale? No. Nightingale developed modern [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/nursing]nursing and training. Seacole reigned on the battlefield. It's not a competition. And, guess what, it is possible for a person of colour to gain prominence for reasons other than political correctness. Gove and co, take note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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