Our Partners

The main partnership at the Centre consists of...

• Bulldogs Boxing and Community Activities, as the lead body delivering community focussed activities 

and 

• Port Talbot Boxing Club who train boxing as a sport.

Jobcentreplus

We have a major partnership with both Neath and Port Talbot Jobcentres. We have direct contact with JCP Workcoaches who refer unemployed 18-24 years of age onto The 5 Pillar Programme. Sian, our Encouragement Mentor works intensely with these young people and with local businesses identifying vacancies and placing suitable Bulldogs members into employment. We match the young person to a vacancy and pride ourselves on achieving excellent ratio’s of referrals to job outcomes.

Fight for Peace

After a rigorous process we have been selected as a  proud member of the Fight for Peace (FFP) Global Alumni Partnership (GAP) (www.fightforpeace.net) whose  Academies  create Social Impact within Rio and London using Boxing and Martial Arts, with a Theory of Change  based on assumptions that concrete changes in young person’s behaviour, activity or situation, are dependent on changes in perspective and  perception of themselves and of others, their motivation, and how they make decisions.

The GAP model integrates 120 organisations using boxing and martial arts as a tool not just as sport. Boxing is a powerful tool when harnessed into community development helping break down multiple barriers within areas of multiple disadvantage. Bulldogs BCA has adapted the FFP 5 Pillar methodology to suit the communities we work within. We have adopted and adapted principles, without losing the vision led from the initial FFP Academies.

  

Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council (NPTCBC)

Bulldogs BCA  has worked hard to create stakeholder partners with a number of local based services, these include:

• ·      NPT Youth Service – a partnership helping us work with young people.
• ·      NPT YOT – (Youth Offending Team), a partnership helping the YOT team provide an exit route for young offenders. We work closely with the YOT team providing fitness based activities and integrating the 5 Pillar support programme to help young offenders into employment / further learning and to remove themselves from the criminal justice system.
• ·      NPT LACES – (Looked After Children Education Services). A partnership funded by BBC Children in Need providing respite activities based upon fitness for young children in care and their foster carers.
• ·      Hillside Secure Unit – A partnership working with young offenders.
•  ·    Sandfields Comprehensive School – Working with young pupils who are bordering disaffection, helping them develop motivation to work towards their GCSE’s.

Armed Forces Veterans Stakeholders

·      SSAAFA – The lead military charity organisations meet at the Armed Forces Drop In every Friday morning at 10.30am at The Bulldogs.  Working with Veterans and Veterans organisations providing free gym related activities and access to SSAFA and The Bulldogs 5 Pillar programme. SSAFA as the lead organisation act as the safeguarding organisation ensuring all activities for Veterans are conducted and regulated within recognised authorities.

·      Poppy Factory – Helping Veterans into employment.

·      Bulldogs BCA currently employs 2 Veterans and has 4 Veterans volunteering at The Bulldogs Development Centre.