PHOTO: English Youth Boxing Club in Somerville for Cultural Exchange
The Right Stuff Boxing Club, from Staffordshire, has a similar mission to the Somerville Boxing Club.
If you've encountered a group of British teenage boxers recently, there's a reason. Several members of the Right Stuff Boxing Club, from Staffordshire, England, are in Somerville on a 10-day cultural exchange with the Somerville Boxing Club. Like the Somerville Boxing Club, which reopened last year at the Edgerly School in East Somerville, Right Stuff Boxing Club strives to improve the lives of young people through boxing. The Somerville Board of Aldermen honored the group Thursday evening, and Andy Whitehall, a group leader, said the trip to Somerville is "an opportunity of a lifetime" for many of the kids in his program. "Many of my young people here have never been outside their own town, [not to mention] outside their own country," he …
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