This project will break down gender stereotypes, promote physical and mental health, and provide a safe, supportive environment for young girls to thrive.

Through structured training sessions, mentorship from experienced coaches,  we aim to inspire confidence, resilience, and leadership skills in girls aged 10–18.

Boxing has a history of being a male dominated sport. Currently Garnock Valley Boxing Club have approximately 28% female participation at most classes and we aim to encourge more girls to take part to improve on that figure.

Boxing has many benefits for young girls:

Confidence & Resilience: Learning self-defense and discipline fosters self-belief.

Health & Wellbeing: Regular training builds fitness, reduces stress, and improves mental health.

Social Inclusion: A female-friendly boxing environment breaks down barriers and creates community belonging.

Participation rates for girls remain low despite these benefits. The project aims to promote the benefits of boxing and directly tackle the barriers to access, visibility and cultural perceptions by offering free classes run over 8 weeks.

Free eight week introductory classes

Costs

Coach 8 hrs x £40 = £320

Equipment (gloves, protective gear, kit) = £600

Hall hire = £80

We are the Junior section of Garnock Rugby Club.  We deliver rugby training to over 100 young people within the Garock Valley, and the wider community.  We strive to keep rugby as affordable as possible to young people while providing opportunties to promote health and wellbeing through physical activity.  Rugby is not just about physical activity and exercise, the young people develop so many more skills that can be transferrable in many siutations for the rest of their lives.  Skills they develop includes communication, teamwork, problem solving, negotiating, as well as increase in confidence and ability.  We would like to apply for funding to purchase equipment and help towards the cost of hiring indoor and astro turf factilities during the winter months.  This allows us to provide continious rugby training throughout the year, and ensures consistency in delivery.  We ensure that the young people are involved in any funding process by checking in with their needs, wants and wishes.  By seeking funding we are able to keep our membership costs as low as possible, which ensures costs are not restrictive in young people being invovled in sport.

Costs

£200 - various sports equipment that the young people are invovled in buying 

£800 - costs towards alternative training facilities during the winter months  

We would like to apply for this funding so that we can particpate in a Community Art Mural Project in partnership with Bridgend Community Centre. We as a group are focused on creating a better environment for young people in the Garnock Valley and trying to make a positive impact on the enviornment. We would like to promote positive climate change actions and a sense of pride in the Garnock Valley. We will achieve this by working with an established artist to create a climate awareness mural and invite other young people from other youth groups to join us. We think this project will give us a feeling of accomplishment, develop our creative, team work and communication skills. We also feel it will spread positivity and help the wellbeing of the young people involved. 

We have spoken to an artist and have came up with the following plan. 

Workshop Days 

3 sessions @ 4 hours per session = 12 hours 

- covers travel, time to source and collect materials, set up, session time, tidy up

Planning, Prep & Design time

Approx 8 hours

- covers time to plan the workshops and to develop the mural design

Touch ups

 Approx 1 day / 8 hours 

- covers time to finalise the mural to give it a good finish

= £800

Materials

Approx £200 using spray paint and masonry paint 

Total= £1000

As Garnock Valley Sports Leaders we will be volunteering our time to give young people the opportunity to take part in free high quality sports sessions to benefit their mental and physcial health. It will also allow the opportunity to try new sports, find a passion for one and a sense of commuinty. It will also provide t-shirts for leaders to make them easy to identify to pupils and staff when taking the club. The t-shirts will help the leaders also feel part of a community and sense of representation when out coaching in the local schools. 

Tshirts & Pritning - £800 

Equipment - £200