In this episode, I talk to Anna Cain, chief executive of the Boxing Academy, a unique and groundbreaking school for the most hard-to-reach young people, realised through the discipline and ethos of boxing.

Anna is also an advisory board member for Feltham Young Offenders institution, a trustee of the campus educational trust and a trustee of chefs in schools.

In this interview, we talk about her remarkable story of how she got to where she is and what she learned along the way. We talk about successful educational approaches to young people who, for whatever reason, are failed by the mainstream system, and why the Boxing Academy has been so successful in making a difference to that particularly vulnerable group.

Anna is an inspiring figure, and we just had a fantastic conversation. I think you’ll get a huge amount from it

Show Notes

What did the world look like to the young Anna when she left school and looked ahead to adult life? (1:45)

Links

The Boxing Academy website http://www.theboxingacademy.co.uk