Rectory Amateur Boxing Club was set up by Phil Brennan in February 2007 to promote the sport of amateur boxing and offer a healthy lifestyle choice to local people. Since 2007 the club has gone from strength to strength and has had hundreds and hundreds of local people use its facilities and dozens represent the club in competition. Marking our 10th Anniversary in January 2017 the club won the prestigious ‘Club of the Year Award’ at the Sutton Coldfield Sports Awards.  During the time the club has been open it has worked with six local schools running boxing programmes for their pupils, including a special needs school. We have worked with youngsters who have behavioural issues, writing exclusive programmes just for them. We have acted as an examiner for a local school to grade their pupils who took boxing as a part of their AS and A Level exams. We work closely with local youth workers on Falcon Lodge (a local community) who regularly recommend youngsters to us. The club has a close link to the local police neighborhood crime prevention teams and try to offer a positive lifestyle choice to local youngsters. The club is run on a volunteer basis and it is a club policy to run our sessions as cheaply as possible. We do this so that finances do not become an issue when youngsters and their parents/carers make the decision on whether they should attend.