Dale Youth Boxing Club

Boxing

Sport

Club

Community

Client

Dale Youth Boxing Club

Type

Sport

Place

London

Project type

Sport Flooring

Products

Taraflex Performance

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Dale Youth Boxing Club

Before the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, its first floor was home to the Dale Youth Boxing Club which was both a valued local resource and one of the best boxing clubs in the country. The club has been credited with turning around the lives of many young people, as well as turning out Olympic gold medal winner James DeGale and world champion George Groves, together with nurturing 200 Amateur Boxing Association champions since it was founded 60 years ago. The BBC’s flagship renovation programme DIY SOS has, with the help of international flooring specialist Gerflor, rebuilt this community hub and boxing gym. The reconstruction saw the Dale Youth Boxing Club and hub re-housed under the A40 Westway, just metres from the derelict tower. Speaking about the project, presenter Nick Knowles said at the time, “It is the biggest and morally most important project we have done in a long time.”

The new gym would need a selection of top-flight flooring products to enable the club to re-emerge once again as a vital hub within the community. The installer Kent-based Arcadia Flooring continually source the best quality products which, combined with the expert skill of their floor layers results in a professional, high standard of finish. Arcadia Flooring installed three of Gerflor’s world- renowned sports flooring products - Taraflex® Comfort, Taraflex® Performance and Taraflex® Surface.

"We couldn’t fault how efficient the delivery of materials was, considering the ridiculously short time scale. In addition to this we were provided with all the technical installation data we asked for and the materials were great to work with. The finish was fantastic and the comments from various other trades on site were wonderful. This was a real logistical and physical challenge. Turning this project around in such a tight time scale would not have been possible without the long hours of hard work put in by our fitters and the support of Gerflor’s Suzanne Harvey, ensuring materials arrived on time”.

Gary Perry, Managing Director at Arcadia Flooring commented,

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