Fighting For My Future Project
This project is delivered to young adults that may not currently be engaged in Education, Employment or Training (NEET’s). The programme supports young adults in breaking negative mindsets and associated behaviours by working with them to improve their resilience, aspiration, personal skills and qualifications.
Participants in the programme are assigned a qualified boxing coach who acts as both their Mentor and Personal Trainer.
Over a number of weeks, clients work with their Mentor and participate in workshops that empower them to progress their confidence, communication, ambition, individuality, accountability, organisation, ability to cope with pressure and how to manage conflict appropriately.
Participants in the programme engage in 1-2-1 boxing fitness and skills sessions with their Mentor.
Towards the end of the project, participants sit qualifications that make them more employable and also are introduced and embedded into a local Boxing Club where they can progress with the sport, develop a sense of belonging and make new friends.
Boxing Programme
Our boxing programme sessions consist of ‘three rounds’: Boxing skills, Assertive mentoring and Life skill discussions. In addition to this, weekly incentives are offered to incentivise competition against one of the students’ toughest opponents… themselves. In these weekly sessions, awe-inspiring boxing mentors discuss each student’s successes and disappointments and evaluate outcomes giving the students the valuable tools to break down the barriers to education.
Empowerment Workshop
Our empowerment workshop has been specifically created to help the aspirations and motivations of girls and young women. We offer a hands-on approach to mentoring and leadership that builds confidence in students, providing the essential life skills they need to reach their true aspirations. By helping to build the confidence of young women and girls, our programme provides them with the skills needed early in life to propel them to become future leaders.
Breaking down educational barriers
We use boxing as the driving tool to break down the barriers to the issues blocking educational attainment, giving students newfound confidence and self-worth; developing stronger skills to raise self-esteem, improve fitness and develop positive social skills.
Increasing attendance, BoostingEngagement & Improving Behaviour
KO Interventions has a mission to guide, lead and challenge students to grow from ‘humble beginnings to world stardom’. In our unique physical programmes of identified and selected student groups or specific one-to-one sessions; they are accountable for their journey.
Our programme has been developed over several years, and each year has seen a progression in the measurable impact on engagement in learning. Students are 100% engaged and 100% positive in their feedback.
Parents, carers, teachers and senior leadership teams have recognised the positive short term impact and long-term improvements which result from choosing KO Interventions as their preferred student mentoring and behavioural improvement partner.