FORMER supermarket manager Stuart Baillie has swapped his overalls for boxing gloves to set up a centre for martial arts training.
The North-East of England Business and Innovation Centre helped the 25-year-old to start his own business, called Combat Forum.
Mr Baillie teaches Muay Thai boxing, a discipline in which he trained for four years before gaining his teaching certificate, from a gym in Sunderland.
Mr Baillie leased the two-storey premises after Paul Finch, business advisor at the innovation centre helped him secure a £1,500 grant from Sunderland Youth Enterprise Trust to get his venture off the ground.
He was also given a loan from the Prince's Trust.
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