A Short Documentary · 2026
“No two boxers are the same.”
— Kevin McCarthy · Founder, Bletchley Boxing Community Hub
Made in Bletchley is a short documentary portrait of Bletchley Boxing Community Hub — a grassroots club in Milton Keynes where discipline, dignity, and belonging are sparred for as hard as any title.
Through the eyes of its founder, its young boxers, and the families in the corner, the film captures a community that refuses to let its kids fall through the cracks. What begins as a gym becomes a second home: a place where identity is built punch by punch, and where the ring is the smallest part of what's really being fought for.
Commissioned by Offset Projects through the Fuelled by Youth programme.
A line from Kevin McCarthy, founder of Bletchley Boxing Community Hub. It first landed at The Cyber Nerds studio, where the film’s crew and the Bletchley Boxing family had gathered — before a single frame was shot — to meet one another and bond. From that room, it became the film’s central idea.
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Director
Made in Bletchley didn’t begin with a script. It began with a room. Before a single frame was shot, Raven brought the Bletchley Boxing family into The Cyber Nerds studio to meet the crew, share a table, and talk. Everything I later understood about the film was shaped in that first conversation.
When we came back with cameras, my job was to earn the same permission the room had earned that day. Close, but never intrusive. Wide when the space needed to breathe. Patient enough for the moment to arrive on its own terms. No swelling music. No coaching from behind the lens.
I co-edited the film alongside Jignesh Kareliya because I wanted to sit with the material — to understand which silences carried more weight than any interview could. What emerged is a portrait built from small things: pads held, shoulders dropped, a kid who arrived angry and stayed late to put the equipment away.
If the film works, it should feel like the Hub itself. Unforced. Patient. Honest about what community actually looks like when it works.
Producer
When I first read the brief for this film, I saw my own story reflected back at me. Having played Junior National Basketball League across the country throughout most of my life, I faced the challenges — including racism — that many young people from our communities know well. Upon retiring from basketball, I began coaching across London — and saw the other side of the game.
That experience gave me a deep understanding of what community sport really means: not the X’s and O’s, but the discipline, the belonging, the sanctuary it provides, and the responsibility coaches carry when they show up for young people every day.
When I met Kevin McCarthy and heard how boxing saved him — and how he built a home that has since saved countless others — I knew this was the story to tell.
Made in Bletchley is not a film about fighting. It is about facing your deepest fears, finding sanctuary, and the coaches who quietly change lives without recognition. This film is, in many ways, my thank you to them.
The founder, the coaches, the young boxers, the families — every name carried equally, because no two are the same.
Kevin McCarthy·Claire Byrne·Dominic Ashman·Sam Ajih·Daren Charters·Frankie Charters·Jack Clayden·Katie Clayden·Raven Delgado·Lola Hazzard·Johnson Kangodia·Mukenge Kangodia·Felix Layton·Gabija Mielaikaite·Amanda Mountney·Kingsley Riley-Poku·Sadie Whiteland
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Behind the scenes at Bletchley Boxing Community Hub during the making of Made in Bletchley. Click any image to view full size. Hi-res files available via the press kit.
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Submitted to a curated slate of UK, European, and US festivals. Acceptances will be announced here as they’re confirmed.
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