 How you doing guys? Max here. Now we're here at the heat MMA gym down in Antrim with the National Lottery. We're gonna showcase some of the projects that the lottery invested in across Northern Ireland. Now I hear Ryan Burnett's in here today guys, so we're gonna head on in and see what they're up to. We went to the gym and we just got talking to the lads and the girls as well and we just start doing a bit of boxing training and just sort of breaking the ice for about half an hour so 45 minutes. Came back here and it's where we start talking to the young people and it is really getting good. Once we start relating and connecting the people they start holding it up and it got good. It's been a very positive experience for our young people because Ryan was very open, very honest about his life and his background. Was able to tell our young people that he's been in the same situation that they've been in. He's made bad choices but the big thing is you make good choices. It's up to you whether you make a bad choice or a good choice so it's been really beneficial and positive for our young people because they can see that Ryan relates to them completely. Me coming down here just takes a little bit of advice from someone that they look up to to change their ways and it can be as simple as that because it happened to me as a young lad. I mean I was getting so much trouble when I was young and I was in exactly the same position. It was a big wake up call. I always thought like how can I be a pro. I was thinking that when I was living in a small town down there I looked at Ryan and I was like if he'd done it I could do it and he said I got the skill and I've got the boxing IQ so I think I could do it like. He was telling us to just keep at school, don't mess up our lives, that he messed up when he was younger and that he knows how it's like and then he started making good decisions and then look where he is now. From sitting there talking to them I think they're all I think they're all actually sitting there thinking you know what like that could actually this could actually be me here it's not obviously they're probably not going to be a professional boxer but you know they could make some for themselves and it's not that big a deal it's not that big a deal that maybe they got expelled from school or something hopefully made them realize that they're way more to life a long life ahead of them. This is a tiny little bad decision they've made and they've got all the time in the world to make to make up for it you know. Well there are more places that are around the better and the big plus because we are big lottery funded and the whole project's big lottery funded it's a it's a bigger project than just what you see what Ryan saw today. We also have then our plus 16 again funded by big lottery so when our these young people leave um two years with us we still stay in contact with them you know we need more places like that that stay in contact with these young people 16 18 20 22 and people that they know that care for them. The lottery have given their effort allows these kids somewhere to go and it allows me to come in and just simply have a chat with them which might actually change their their course in their life because it's it's not it's not hard to tell that a lot of these kids are heading in the wrong direction but with the correct advice they can actually be coerced to the right way and it's only through this sort of setup that the lottery is doing that that can actually take place I think that gets looked over a lot I mean people don't really think about that but when you do start thinking about it it's so so important because the next generation they are the next generation do you know what I mean and the last thing the last thing that everyone wants is a kid just going down the wrong path and just ending up either dead or just a horrible life this prevents it