Box Up Crime – one of our No More Red charity partners – has held an event at Emirates Stadium to mark its tenth anniversary as a social enterprise.
Box Up Crime provides safe spaces in the form of six boxing gyms across London, to provide young people with a space to learn boxing, develop skills and confidence and access to mentors.
The enterprise was founded by Stephen Addison as a response to the loss of friends to gang violence. Stephen is committed to providing the young people of London with positive opportunities to pursue their passions away from a life of gang violence.
They were gifted use of the stadium by nature of them being a No More Red charity partner, and the event was attended by more than 250 people including community and corporate partners, young people who attend Box Up classes, volunteers and staff and representatives from local schools.
They saw a dance performance from young people connected with Box Up Crime, as well as watch a documentary on Stephen Addison and Box Up’s journey so far. Information on the five pillars of Box Up Crime – boxing, education, music, enterprise, careers – was also provided, while Freddie Hudson, head of Arsenal in the Community, presented the charity’s chosen volunteers with our No More Red white shirts, a symbol of the partnership through the No More Red campaign.
You can find out more about Box Up Crime’s work, or donate to help support their mission
More information on No More Red can be found at arsenal.com/NoMoreRed and adidas.co.uk/footballcollective
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