ASPIRE Wrestling Alliance Ltd
Derby | Community Support & Development
Derby | Community Support & Development
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We currently run an emergency food hub to cover 4 wards of the City - since starting this at the outbreak of the pandemic we have made up and distributed over 5000 food parcels, we also assist with other issues for vulnerable people such as toiletries, clothing, furniture and signposting for additional support if we can not help directly.
We also when covid guidelines permit assist vulnerable people with gardening projects and provide some companionship in the process.
In non covid times we run a Wrestling school which helps around 200 people a month with physical fitness and mental wellbeing bringing to the fore life attributes such as trust, teamwork, increased social confidence, personal growth in self belief and value.
We have several case studies of how a young person arrives with a plethora of issues and due to their involvement with wrestling, their discovery of a place where they are accepted and included, the ability to talk the common language of Wrestling, the fact that Wrestling is an art, meaning they work together to put on a show, the 'loser' of a match works hard to make the 'winner' look good, they work together to protect each others bodies not to hurt each other and they perform in public all leads to young people who usually hold issues with trust and behaviours due to low self esteem or bad influences to grow as young people and that has a beneficial effect on life at school, college and home resulting in lower crime figures, less self harm, reduced levels of domestic issues and lower levels of disruption in education.
We have won several regional awards for impact and came second in the UK for impact by a community organisation less than five years old in 2018.
We also in non covid times run emotional wellbeing sessions in several primary school working with the most vulnerable children - we got nominated for a National Crimebeat Award for this work.
We run community activities and events and host a number of community support groups as well as providing a venue for other local groups to run activities from for the community.
Moving ahead we are proposing on opening a community shop to serve and support the local community and wish to engage with local residents to help run the shop so that it becomes a community shop in the fullest sense, around this we plan several other activities to help to engage and support locals.
Why the community needs us
We work with local people providing a centre and an environment which really helps to make them more active and to grow in confidence. We absolutely believe in being all inclusive and ultimately we want people to realise that everybody has something to offer. If we can enable people to grow and to benefit in every walk of their life then we are truly making a difference. We work with everybody and provide different services to assist with the process.
Our impact on the community
We have upward of 50 people a week using our centre on a regular basis with many more using it on an ad hoc level. Seeing people becoming able to leave their homes when previously confined due to mental health issues or seeing them obtaining voluntary or paid work elsewhere when previously lack of confidence restricted them is how we judge progress. We also see differences in people who were at risk of crime moving into the opposite direction and becoming key members of a community.
We also now have fed over 14,000 people (including repeat people) during covid, have supported them in numerous other methods as outlined above, we provide volunteer opportunities which has seen a number of people upskill and move into paid work and we also provide work placement, steering and support for vulnerable young people.
We have worked closely with the police, NHS and others to play our part in helping to reduce anti social behaviour and also to reduce admissions to hospital with self inflicted injuries.
Our details
St Marks Community Centre, Cornwall Road, Derby DE21 6DJ