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Finish a Gym for Youth Outreach

Hello to anyone that stumbled across this GoFund Me account! Thank you for taking the chance and reading a little about my vision. I'll start with a bit of a back story to what I would like to accomplish here. I am a Father, Paramedic, and Trainer (CrossFit Level 2) and I have worked full time while also owning and operating a successful Gym in my hometown. I have recently transferred ownership of the gym in an attempt to focus more attention on less things. I have been attempting to pursue a coaching dream of having a youth outreach program to introduce kids from grade school to high school to Fitness and Weightlifting. I have an abundance of equipment already available to use in the facility that I was fortunate enough to accumulate over the years of owning a gym. The major work is almost complete as the concrete is poured on my personally owned land and the building purchased as a kit. I am about 95% finished with this entire project however I've hit a few snags with financials in the past month and I hate to postpone the entire project because of that. My goal is to have the building up and outfitted before cold weather hits. Then to set some meetings up with local schools and start the discussions. The only thing I need assistance with is finishing the building as the pre-manufactured steel building I purchased has no front or back and I will be building those from scratch as well as a changing room and meeting area. I can build them myself and I have many volunteers to assist with it as well so essentially I need help purchasing the remaining materials. I have a career and as I already own the land, equipment, and building, my overhead will not be any issue at all. I have zero intent on charging any fees at all to these kids and will rely solely on my own money, donations, and fund raising events to outfit new equipment and other upgrades as time goes on. The local college here is an Olympic Training Facility for weightlifting however, none of the schools offer this as a predominant sport, only as a subsidiarity to other sports such as Football and Basketball. I'm not reaching out for a start up fund, I'm only attempting to finish what I started and give something back to the community.

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Joshua Hicks
Organizer
Elizabethton, TN

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