The Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club celebrated its reopening at a new Notting Hill location last Thursday night (October 12).
Dubbed as the 'Factory of the Champions', the 85-year-old club was at the base of Grenfell Tower for 20 years but has had to relocate to a temporary home following the disaster on June 14 .
A lively training session took place at the Low Wood Court car park in Westbourne Park Road to mark the club's reopening.
The club's members were joined by chairman of Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club, Graham Gater, and Kensington and Chelsea Council leader Elizabeth Campbell among others.
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Speaking to Get West London , Cllr Campbell said: "The boxing club has always been at the centre of the community at the base of Grenfell Tower.
"We've always been hugely supportive at Kensington and Chelsea because if you look around it's about fitness, it's about discipline, it's about teamwork and it's about respect.
"The boxing club offers an alternative gang to people on the street, on a wet Monday night their door is always open."
She added: "We were really happy to help with the old gym and we're more than happy to help the club relocate to this one."
"Sport is so important because of the discipline and respect it demands and respect is something that everyone really recognises in this community.
"It's something which has held us all together in the terrible times that we've had since the fire.
"The community around Grenfell has really come together and everyone in this club is part of that and part of the hope that we have for the future."
Mr Gater said: "Of course the council's priority should be to rehome those people that lost their homes.
"Our priority is that we've got somewhere to train.
"It's not what we had, we lost a lot of equipment in the fire but it's good to be back and to be able to run training again."
He added: "Hopefully once the council have sorted out housing and decided what they're going to do with the building [Grenfell Tower], we can get some help to get the facilities back to the same standard as before."
"We lost one parent in the fire, whose children used to come here, but we were lucky not to have lost any of the kids."
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