{"id":4023,"date":"2009-08-12T16:21:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/08\/12\/boxing-project-is-knockout-success\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:39:48","slug":"boxing-project-is-knockout-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/12\/boxing-project-is-knockout-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing project is Knockout success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>City cop secures funding to keep project running for further two years<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"266\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/InnerBoxingProject_180x232.jpg\"\/>A WEST Midlands Police officer behind a city project that has worked wonders in getting teenagers off the streets and into the boxing ring has secured funding to keep the initiative running for a further two years.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Inspector Akeel Najib came up with the \u2018Inner City Boxing\u2019 project in March 2008 in a bid to engage with young people in Aston who had been in contact with the police. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Akeel, who was the sergeant for Aston at the time, enlisted the help of former Super-Middleweight World Champion Richie Woodhall and the project became an instant success. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Last year Akeel moved to policing in Wednesbury and West Bromwich and immediately launched the project in Sandwell.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>With the initiative still running in Aston, Akeel has now secured funding through the Safer Sandwell Partnership to keep the hugely popular project going for a further two years. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Yesterday Akeel joined Chief Superintendent Stephen Dugmore and Sandwell Mayor Geoff Lewis in honouring ex-boxer Woodhall for his contribution to the project. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Woodhall and his team, which included dad Albert, were presented with a Commander&#8217;s Special Recognition Award.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cInner City Boxing is a great opportunity for youngsters,\u201d Woodhall said. \u201cIt is an opportunity for them to be a part of a sporting project that provides mentoring and focus, while carrying out an enjoyable activity.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI was born and bred in West Bromwich so feel a personal link with the town and am glad to be given the opportunity to give something back to the community I grew up in.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City cop secures funding to keep project running for further two years A WEST Midlands Police officer behind a city project that has worked wonders in getting teenagers off the streets and into the boxing ring has secured funding to keep the initiative running for a further two years. &#13; Inspector Akeel Najib came up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}