Empire Fighting Chance Gets New Knockout House

Empire Fighting Chance, a Bristol sports charity that uses non-contact boxing to transform the lives of young people, is celebrating a hat-trick of summer successes after picking up the keys to its new home, winning a national award and receiving nearly half a million pounds in grants.

The charity will shortly move into the former Mill Youth Centre in Easton, which will enhance and improve the services it can offer, and comes following a community asset transfer from Bristol City Council for the property supported by Bristol Mayor George Ferguson.

The Council has also awarded £120,000 towards the redevelopment of the centre which in turn helped to secure a further £360,000 of lottery funding by Sport England.

Empire Fighting Chance has also won the School Links Award in the Sport and Recreation Alliance Awards, which was presented to the charity by the Alliance’s President, HRH the Earl of Wessex, at St James’s Palace in London.