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This photographic essay of Broad Plain Boxing Club, Bristol celebrates Dennis Stinchcombe’s 50 years at the Club.
Photographer Beat Kinkaid’s pictures capture day-to-day life at the Club including its work with people suffering from Parkinson’s, using boxing training routines to improve balance and movement.
At the heart of the Club based in the Riverside Youth Project is Dennis Stinchcombe MBE who has dedicated his life to working with young people, particularly in Easton and St Paul’s.
Says Kinkaid: “Now Broad Plain is struggling again. Funding has gone. Staff have been let go. Programmes have closed but the doors remain open, but only just.
“What remains is the record. Youth workers. Boxers. Community leaders. People who say the same thing, that this place, and one man inside it, changed the direction of their lives.
“This is a story about staying. About fifty years of turning up. About making sure that, in a hard city, young people always had somewhere safe to go and someone who did not give up on them.”
Profits from sales of the book will be donated to the Club.
This photographic essay of Broad Plain Boxing Club, Bristol celebrates Dennis Stinchcombe’s 50 years at the Club.
Photographer Beat Kinkaid’s pictures capture day-to-day life at the Club including its work with people suffering from Parkinson’s, using boxing training routines to improve balance and movement.
At the heart of the Club based in the Riverside Youth Project is Dennis Stinchcombe MBE who has dedicated his life to working with young people, particularly in Easton and St Paul’s.
Says Kinkaid: “Now Broad Plain is struggling again. Funding has gone. Staff have been let go. Programmes have closed but the doors remain open, but only just.
“What remains is the record. Youth workers. Boxers. Community leaders. People who say the same thing, that this place, and one man inside it, changed the direction of their lives.
“This is a story about staying. About fifty years of turning up. About making sure that, in a hard city, young people always had somewhere safe to go and someone who did not give up on them.”
Profits from sales of the book will be donated to the Club.
