Salford Lads Club

BBC Football Focus live from the gym

Today we had a fantastic event in the club, BBC Sport’s Football Focus programme was broadcast in front of a live audience from the gym. The programme was presented by Dan Walker, with the panel of Lee Dixon, Mark Lawrenson, Robbie Savage and special guest Michael Vaughan. The audience were football fans who had travelled from many parts of the country to be here. We gave everybody a tour of the club including the boxing gyms, billiards room, concert hall and Smiths room. We’d like to thank...

Boxing film highlights aim to end racism in a generation

Riffat Ahmed’s film CLENCH premiered last week. The film is about a mixed race Asian teenage girl who takes part in a boxing course run by a black boxing coach. The film explores the girls own experience of racism and also her own preconceptions of other people and places. Adam Crosby one of the boxers at the club took part in the film which was shot on location here and Old Trafford. It was commissioned by the Runnymede Trust to highlight their project Generation3.

Charlatans and Topman fundraise for SLC

The Charlatans performed in Manchester last night, part of a Topman CTRL event  in aid of the club. For more pictures and full reports go to http://www.topmanctrl.com/2010/10/21/ctrl-live-manchester-review/ http://www.nme.com/news/the-charlatans/53502 "This one’s for Salford Lads Club,"  said lead singer  Tim Burgess  "Let's keep it going for another 100 years". It’s Brilliant that so many people give us this kind of support,  so thanks to all the fans, and bands who contributed ...