Gedling MP Tom Randall works with boxer Amir Khan to create outdoor gym for Ukrainian orphans at centre in Poland

Gedling MP Tom Randall has been working with former world champion boxer Amir Khan to create an outdoor gym for use by Ukrainian orphans at a centre in Poland.

Mr Randall is in the country learning more about the Ukrainian refugee situation and visiting centres taking in those displaced since Russia invaded.

Boxer Khan has set up the Amir Khan Foundation with Instagram beauty queen Faryal Makhdoom to help Ukrainian refugees and has chosen the month of Ramadan, where Muslims are urged to carry out charity work, to donate to the cause.

The gym was installed by the volunteers at Koscierzyna, west of Gdansk in Poland.

MP Randall said: “Being an inexperienced gardener, this was quite hard work but it was really good to be involved in something practical that will make a difference.”

During the previous day the Gedling MP had visited the Polish – Russian border where there is a small exclave of Russia, known as Kaliningrad, on the Baltic Sea.

Mr Randall said: “While there is historic tension between Poland and Russia, officials told me that relations on the ground are good and the border is usually busy, with lots of business and trade each way.

“On our visit, the border was eerily quiet and the border guards understandably very nervous. The economic cost to both sides is yet another consequence of Putin’s aggression.”