Working With Communities and Young People To Thrive
Our mission
To build confidence, resilience and opportunity through meaningful connections, physical activity, mentoring and personal development.
Our vision
Individuals, groups and communities have the confidence and support to reach their potential, contributing to stronger, healthier and more connected individuals, teams and communities.
Our values
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Inspire
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Excellence
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Community
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Compassion
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Integrity
Home of Chat 'n' Box Development System
Integrating mental wellbeing and mentoring with boxing based development training to achieve individual and group goals
Support and services available
EMPATHY EXPERTISE PERFORMANCE IMPACT
MENTORING • CONFIDENCE • FUTURES
Supporting young people through boxing, trusted mentoring, wellbeing and personal development.
Who it serves:
Young people, schools, referral partners, youth organisations, youth programmes.
TEAMWORK • RESILIENCE • PERFORMANCE
Your commercial offer: boxing-based team building, leadership, resilience and performance workshops.
Who it serves:
Employers, community organisations, HR teams, leadership teams and learning and development providers.
MOVEMENT • MINDSET • WELLBEING
Helping people improve physical wellbeing, confidence, resilience and healthy lifestyles.
Who it serves:
Families, adults, community groups, organisations and commissioned programmes.
Development with Purpose
For over 30 years founder Bhaltinder Khuman, has been supporting individuals, organisations and communities working in diverse settings. Working across a range of fields such as sports for development, violence prevention, community cohesion, employability and advocacy. Delivering training and support to community sports and arts organisations, young people's organisations, youth offending services in the UK and internationally. Connect Us Academy CIC's work since 2021 has delivered impactful projects and programmes to support communities and young people. Individually and collectively developing positive and beneficial skills and pathways to reach their potential. We offer a variety of sessions across Coventry and we do contract work with employers and organisations that require a different sort of engagement and support for their participants or employees.