About IPM trust

IPM Sports and Career Academy is an initiative by Iringal Pappan Memorial Sports & Fitness Trust (“IPM Trust”).

IPM Trust is committed to promote sports and fitness among the youth of North Kerala, with special emphasis on the game of Volleyball. The trust has been established in memory of Sri. Iringal Pappan, the legendary volleyball player, immortalized through his unique style of blending power and beauty.

Our main objectives are to identify and nurture Volleyball talent so as to contribute to popularising and strengthening of the game at national level and to regain the glory of Volleyball in the North Malabar region.

We are committed to promoting a culture of sports & fitness among people from all wakes of life. We also aim to help young people to develop winning personalities & patriotism so as to succeed in life and contribute to nation-building.

The Trustees are:
Narendran Koduvattat (Chairman)
Sheejith V M (Secretary)
Ranjumon K (Treasurer)
Binu A
Dileep Kumar K P
Jayan G
Jithesh M M
Karunan V K
Noushad A K
Prathosh V K
Prasad Kurup
Rajeevan M
Shanthakumar P K
Sreeraj V G

History

Our founding trustees, a team of Volleyball players & enthusiasts, have been conducting Volleyball coaching camps since 2010 to identify and nurture talent from the region. Success from these camps led to the desire for establishing a Volleyball Academy, which was inaugurated on 26th January 2021 with interim facilities.

We soon realized the need to have all-weather training facilities and also the potential for an integrated sports & fitness complex. We thus took up the challenge of building the sports & fitness centre as a first-of-its-kind project in the region.

IPM Trust was formally registered on 9-July-2021.

The Volleyball Academy, other sports and career academies and fitness facilities were built under the supervision of world-renowned coaches and players, in collaboration with Kerala's topmost infrastrucure development firm.