Boxing & Mentoring for Nutrition & Body Image

Organiser: Sweet Science Foundation

When

What

NHS STRIDES service has commissioned Sweet Science Foundation to offer secondary schools / colleges in Harrow, a FREE 10-week course of boxing and mentoring - focused on nutrition and body image

According to data from London’s mental health trusts, child and adolescent referrals for eating disorders increased 158 per cent between 2016/17 to 2022/23. There is a national crisis in young people's relationship to food, and it can have a huge impact on their mental health. This programme is part of a preventative measure being offered by the NHS.

Who is this for

• Groups of students (25) in year 9 up to college age. You do not have to identify body image or food related problems, as this is a wider preventative offer commissioned by the NHS aimed at all young people in the age category.

How does it work

• Our coach / mentors will come to your school to deliver an intensive session of non-contact boxing, alongside mentoring and information and advice about nutrition and body image. Some of the topics in the course include: fuelling your body (nutrition), body dissatisfaction, peer pressure, perfectionism, bullying, social media, perceptions of beauty.
• It is up to you as a school to decide how you would like to integrate the sessions - some decide to use it as part of their PE or PSHCE curriculum.
• You can run the sessions once a week for 10 weeks, or you can choose to run two sessions a week over 5 weeks.

What the School Need to Provide

• We will deliver the sessions at your school / college so we will need a suitable space
• We will need you to identify the cohort of students that would benefit from the programme.
• We would need some post-programme feedback - nothing too laborious!

We have worked with lots of schools in Harrow already - including Hatch End, Harrow College, Whitmore, Harrow High School and more.

SEND friendly