Southern View: October 07, 2021

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Boxing numbers surge
• By John Cosgrove
DEMAND FOR the chance to
step into the ring is forcing the
Woolston Boxing Club to look
for new rooms to cope with the
increase in numbers.
Club secretary and head
coach Holly Sullivan said club
membership has exploded in
size over the past five years.
“Originally we ran three
classes on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday, now we host six
per week and are even open on
Sundays,’’ she said.
THe demand has led the club
to suspend it’s membership
books until next year.
“I have more than 40 people
on the waiting list for our
February 2022 intake and have
already started adding to the
June 2022 list.
“I put it down to the
club being very active in a
community that likes the sport,”
she said.
While the club would love
to offer everyone the chance to
learn boxing, Sullivan said the
main issue they faced today is
with the size of their building.
“We have simply outgrown it,
we have eight amazing coaches
but there is only so much we can
do, if we could fit more in we
would, but we simply cannot do
so safely,” she said.
“We went to the city council
and they have been amazing
trying to help us find land or a
temporary spot but nothing has
popped up in the area that
would suit the club.”
She said they would love to
be able to expand their building
to fit more boxers in, but being
a small community club totally
reliant on fundraising it means
that in order to purchase land
or grow they would need to find
large donations or angel investors.
“We have considered on a
number of occasions going in
together with another sport,
it’s just very difficult to manage
when there’s boxing rings in
the building, people see gloves
ON THE HUNT:
Woolston Boxing
Club secretary
and head
coach Holly
Sullivan is looking
for bigger
clubrooms
following a
recent rise in
membership.
PHOTO: GEOFF
SLOAN ​
and ropes and just want to get
in there being it’s an exciting
sport. At the same time when
licenced coaches are not around
it can be worrying from a health
and safety point of view.
“We have a fun but safe,
controlled and disciplined
environment here where all our
athletes are well protected and
managed and we need to control
it,’’ Sullivan said.
In Brief
TREE REMOVAL
The issue of trees being removed
to make way for building
developments has prompted the
Spreydon-Cashmere Community
Board to request a briefing on
the issue from city council staff.
Intended as a joint briefing with
the Hornby-Halswell-Riccarton
Community Board, no date has
yet been set but council staff
intend for it to take place in
November.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
The city council has received 251
Summer with Your Neighbours
funding applications for
community-focused events,
including 49 from the Spreydon-
Cashmere Community Board
area. The board has $3000 to
allocate, and applications are
set to be considered later this
month.
WOMEN-ONLY SWIMMING
Special women-only swimming
sessions will be held in the newly
opened $22 million Te PouToetoe:
Linwood Pool complex. It follows
a number of requests from
the community to provide an
opportunity for women and girls
to make the most of the pools and
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3–9.30pm.
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