New Gymnastics Facility

WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR SUPPORT

The Gyrus Olympic Gymnastics Club is a Community Sports Club; we have been running for 44 years this year, the year of the 2012 London Olympics.

Unfortunately following the Oympics the club will have to close due to the closure of the current Leisure Centre, unless we can raise sufficient funds to enable us to move into a new unit.  

There is currently no children's sports strategy for the local area, which means that the many hundreds of children that come throught the club each year will no longer have anywere to continue the sport they are so passionate about.

The club is run and coached solely by Volunteers who receive no remuneration for either their time or travelling expenses.

If you would like to know more , then please visit our website.

We do hope you will read more of our plight, the aim of the project and why this is so necessary in the following sections below.  

Please also follow the updates on the 'Updates' tab; this includes links to recent Newsletters and achievements and awards that the volunteer workforce have worked so hard to achieve for the children in the community.

So what is the Aim of the Project

The project is to adapt an existing factory unit within Witham to facilitate the continuation of the gymnastics club as a not for profit organisation; providing valuable gymnastics activities to the whole community.

The club requires this as the existing facility is to be demolished by the Council; they have said they will not be providing a new sports facility for local clubs in regards to a gymnasium of sports hall facility; but they will support the club unconditionally with this project.

This project will not only allow the club to continue and build on the existing 44 years of success in the community; but will also enable the club to continue to support the British Gymnastics Membership and to ultimately build on the membership, thereby increasing future revenue for British Gymnastics.
The project is to fully furnish fit the factory unit as a permanent gymnastics training facility, with new updated equipment and the installation of an energy efficient heating system.

What Evidence is there for this Project:

Gyrus Olympic Gymnastics Club currently operates out of the Bramston sports centre in Witham; which is has done for more than 40 years; it is a private club funded by the participants.  The club is a not for profit organisation and everyone that works for the club is a volunteer, they claim neither fee nor any expenses in the running of the club.  It’s probably one of the few remaining completely voluntary sports clubs in Witham.

However Bramston Sports Centre has now reached its end of life as the running costs are high and the facility is increasingly supported by the council tax payers; the local authority has now determined this is unsustainable.

The local authority has considered the future of sport and leisure provision within Witham and has decided that a new building would offer far lower running costs in the future and allow the opportunity to take a fresh look at how the sports centre is used by the local community.

However, it has been acknowledged that the new facility will be of insufficient capacity to cater for the needs of Witham and surrounding areas.

The consultation document has identified that although the population of Witham has more than doubled in the last 40 years, the new centre is being designed for a smaller capacity of users.

The new Council facility will not provide a gymnasium or sports hall, currently used by many activities, including the Gymnastics Club and the Trampoline Club; however our project aims to fill this gap for the local community.

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