TWO youth groups in Hyndburn have each received grants of £500 from the school's Ex-Pupils Fund for goodwill.
Accrington Grammar School Old Boys Association has donated new gloves and head guards for junior boxers to Fairfield Boxing Club in Accrington.
Oswald Twistle of the 1st St. Paul Scout Group also received a donation to improve disability access at its headquarters in the Channel.
Accrington Grammar School last accepted students in 1975 before becoming a comprehensive school as Moorhead High School, but former students still come together and hold events to replenish the group's charitable fund. doing.
The organization solicited grant applications for its latest round of donations and selected Fairfield Boxing Club and 1st St. Paul's Scout Group as recipients.
AGSOB Chairman and Treasurer Lynden Charnley (second from right), Scout Treasurer Matthew Walmsley, Chairman Mark Shackleton, Group Lead Volunteer Craig Fishwick, Old Boys Chairman Geoff Snape (Image: AGSOB)
Fairfield Boxing Club was launched in 2020 as a free outdoor fitness group led by Scott and Annabelle Parsons from Clayton-le-Moors.
They found a former factory site on Charter Street in Accrington and created a gym using mostly donated second-hand equipment.
Both are qualified boxing coaches and run women's boxing sessions for over 20 boys and girls from under 6s to 14s and women over 14s, as well as family fitness sessions.
St Paul's Cub and Scout Group has renovated its headquarters in The Straits, Oswaldtwistle, to make it more spacious by installing new windows and roof insulation, wider doors and an outside ramp. The aim is to make the facility both disabled-friendly and useful for other local groups.
The group has over 20 young beavers and beaver scouts and is the venue for East Lancashire Scouting's regular first aid training, as well as entertaining guides and brownies.
Accrington Grammar School's Old Boys Association Committee will also award a grant of £500 for equipment for American Flag Football, a non-contact version of American Football, based at Mount Carmel High School The school has agreed to this and plans to present it to the school at a later date.
