OUR PROFESSIONAL YOUTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE IS UNIQUE.

At Sanctus, we blend non-contact boxing with practical and therapeutic support through individual mentoring and group programmes to influence beliefs, attitudes and behaviours resulting in long lasting positive change.

We offer interventions designed to empower young people aged 8 to 25 with the skills and inspiration needed to make positive changes in their lives.

Our programmes engage young people through boxing training and supports their SEMH by delivering psychology-informed mentoring tailored to meet the individual needs of the young person.

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Develops Personal Principles

Throughout our programmes, young people learn evidence-based personal development principles including how the brain works, to allow them to understand feelings they may be experiencing. This equips them with the skills to manage emotions, behaviours, and situations.

Builds Emotional Competence

Our sessions are designed to develop emotional competence through focusing on developing self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness (empathy) , relationship management and responsible decision making.

Supports Mental Health

Created in partnership with mental health charity MIND, and co-designed with young people, the programmes use boxing and mentoring as a way to improve young people’s participation in physical activity, their self-confidence, self-belief, and mental wellbeing.

Our SEMH programmes

This programme combines non-contact boxing training and mentoring to deliver our personal development principles.

There are over 20 principles including sessions on: taking responsibility for their actions, positive responses, growth mindset, kindness, healthy nutrition and the power of moods.

Young people learn how the brain works to allow them to understand feelings they may be experiencing and develop skills to manage emotions, behaviours, and situation.

Box Champions

This service combines non-contact boxing and Talk therapy. This is solution-focused and is delivered by our Cognitive Behaviour Therapist.

These sessions:

Provide the young person with a safe time and place to talk to someone who won't judge them.
Help them resolve complicated feelings, or find ways to live with them.
Help them make sense of things and understand themselves better
Help them recognise unhelpful patterns in the way they think or act, and find ways to change them.

ChatterBOX Therapy

Download the PDF version of our programme here

Our Impact

Since September 2023, 710 young people have accessed our programmes. We have worked with 14 schools across Calderdale & Bradford who have used Box Champions to support vulnerable young people manage their SEMH.

School leaders and SENDcos have commented that the programme helped improve:

attendance, attitudes to learning, self-regulation, improve mood and engagement, improve relationships with others, those who were at risk of becoming NEET, had positively engaged in our alternative provision.

“Since she went in to care, she’s found it hard to trust adults. She will push everyone’s buttons to see how far they will go in an act of self-sabotage. But she trusts you, she knows you will be there every week and whilst she might not show it, the sessions with you are the highlight of her week."

School SENDCO

Alexa Young, CA

Make a referral

To make a referral, please complete the secure electronic form or download the referral form.

Click here: Referral Form

Email sanctusfitnessandboxing@gmail.com for further information

If you are a parent, Health Practitioner, Link Worker or from a Community Organisation, please state your relationship with the young person on the referral.

Download the referral form:

Contact us

sanctusfitnessandboxing@gmail.com

07508120101