Boxing Community

 The Ringside Charitable Trust

Register Charity No: 1185462

Former Heavyweight World Champion, Joe Frazier once said, 'Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.'

Whilst boxing is a sport that has changed millions of lives throughout the world for the better, Joe's words reveal the sad and often overlooked reality that many boxers face after hanging up the gloves.

Once their glory days are behind them, many retired boxers find themselves struggling with the long-term physical effects of enduring the gruelling lifestyle of a boxer. In addition to the toll boxing takes on the physical health of a fighter, there are also many retired boxers suffering in a myriad of other ways such as depression, alcoholism and drug addiction.

The challenges many retired boxers face is also worsened by the fact that very few of them have lifelong financial security. Whilst it might seem to the majority of the public that boxers are multimillionaires, enjoying the trappings their fame has brought them, this is only true for the elite few.

The Ringside Charitable Trust was established in order to provide forgotten boxers a lifeline.

The aim of The Ringside Charitable Trust is to open a home specifically for the treatment and care of former boxers. The home will provide medical help, facilities for ex-boxers to be cared for both short and long term, a cinema room for the boxers to watch films of their old fights and a non-alcoholic bar where they can sit together and reminisce. 

The boxing community is one big family, and as such, everyone within the community needs to come together to support our own. The Ringside Charitable Trust is working tirelessly to make a difference to the lives of the heroes of the sport. After giving their all to boxing it's only proper they are taken of.

The Trust needs your help. Please donate whatever you can via the link below;

https://www.paypal.com/gb/fundraiser/charity/3795439

Website: www.theringsidecharitabletrust.com

Ambassadors of The Ringside Charitable Trust include;

Anthony Joshua OBE

John Conteh MBE

Duke McKenzie MBE

Frank Bruno MBE

John H Stracey MBE

Michael Watson MBE

Johnny Nelson MBE

James Cook MBE

Colin Hart

Charlie Edwards

Lucy Wildheart

Hannah Rankin

Matt Christie

Ross Minter

Terry Waller

Lee Pullen

Andy Brace

Jock McInnes MBE

Steve Graysmark

Sophie Gallagher

Phillip Sharkey

Harry Scott

Alec Johnson

Lyndsy Hall