Vicky McClure and Jonny Owen were announced as patrons as a new boxing gym and community hub was launched in Mansfield. The Switch Up community hub and Mansfield School of Boxing is opening in Barringer Road, Mansfield, and has been set up by Marcellus Baz, who already runs a gym and hub in St Ann's in Nottingham.
Switch Up and the boxing school are two sister organisations focusing on supporting Mansfield’s mental health and antisocial behaviour via mentoring, boxing, counselling and community involvement. Vicky McClure was there with her partner Jonny Owen, a director at Nottingham Forest, with both being announced as celebrity patrons - Nottingham's own Jayne Torvill also appeared on opening night on Tuesday, June 21.
At the event, Ms McClure told Nottinghamshire Live: "We have seen what Baz has been doing and we have always said we wanted to be a part of it. We have been supporting him [Baz] for quite a few years now - there are young people and they do not know what opportunities were out there, they have been dealt difficult cards.
