DIY SOS: Grenfell Boxing Club review – their biggest, most important build yet

Nick Knowles and co joined forces with construction experts, volunteers and a future king to create a new home for Dale Youth, the gym that was destroyed in the tower fire

This column wouldn’t normally bother itself with DIY SOS (BBC One), an old makeover format. But this one is a bit different. And bigger. Bigger even than anything in the show’s later Big Build incarnation. In truth, it doesn’t have anything to do with DIY. Got any plans for the weekend? Yeah, I thought I might do a bit of major construction …

The SOS part still works, though. Remember the Dale Youth boxing club, the gym that was housed on the second floor of Grenfell Tower – an integral part of the community, a place to keep young people out of trouble, a breeding ground for future stars of the ring? Since the tragedy, it has been operating out of a cold car park, a space it has shared with drunks and pigeons.

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