Buckley Gymnastics Club

Get rummaging for our sale!

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Web team

The next fundraising event for our new gym appeal will be a clothes rummage sale at the gym leisure centre on Saturday 10 October.

There isn’t long, so please sort out your unwanted clothes! There will be a box in the changing room for the next two Saturdays for you to drop off any unwanted clothes from 9am-4pm.

Please ensure clothes are clean and in good condition. Both adult and children’s clothes would be appreciated.

Can you please separate adult and children clothing and any leotards that can be sold and passed down through the club.

Thanks

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‘Bob a Job’ final reminder

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Web team

Please bring your ‘Bob a Job’ earnings to the Registration day on Saturday 26 September. Ideally, bring it in cheque form with name/s and amount raised on the envelope.

Remember there is a prize for the most obscure ‘Bob a Job’ and that will be judged someone independent at 1pm so please include a note about how the money was earned.

Gymnasts of families raising £50 will be invited to a training session at the fixed gym at Wrexham’s Queensway Stadium from 1.30 – 3pm on Thursday 29 October – and that’s the afternoon of the club Halloween Party.

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Volunteers give up Sunday and raise £280 at car boot sale

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Web team

A big thank you to Preschool coach and chief fundraiser Becca, hubby Steve, kids Bella, Milly and Lottie and also to Macey and her dad Richard for giving up their Sunday to help boost club funds at a car boot sale in Chirk today.

Their vans were stocked with donated items left over from the garage sale which netted £360 last week and they had great success in raising £280 for our new gym appeal.

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Appeal fund receives £360 boost from garage sale

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Web team

Steve Bailey (left) receives the cheque from Viv and Don Bennion

The new gym appeal for Buckley Girls’ Gymnastics Club has received a £363.60 boost from half of funds raised at a garage sale.

Long time club supporters Viv and Don Bennion hosted the sale at their home at Llanarmon-yn-Ial, near Mold, with the same amount also being donated to support facilities for children in their village.

The couple’s daughter, Kathy, is a former club gymnast who represented Wales and Great Britain and competed in the Commonwealth Games after joining Buckley in 1981.

A bit about Kathy…

Newspaper clipping

Gymnast fact file

Katherine joined Buckley club in 1981 as a nine-year-old progressing from North Wales Squad to Welsh Junior Squad
Welsh Elite Squad
British Schools Champion
British Senior squad
Competed internationally for Wales and for Great Britain against Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, East Germany, Bulgaria and the former Czechoslovakia
BBC Wales/Western Mail Junior Sportswoman of the Year 1989
First girl from North Wales to qualify for the British Championships and finished 4th
First girl from North Wales to be selected for a Commonwealth Gymnastics event – Scotland 1986, and went on to captain the Welsh Ladies team to the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland
SOURCE: Viv Bennion

Club supporter Steve Bailey, who helped at the garage sale, is seen collecting the cheque on behalf of the club from Mr and Mrs Bennion.

Unsold items, some of which which were donated by parents of gymnasts, were sold at the Sunday car boot sale at Chirk, raising a further £280.

Over £10,000 has been raised this year towards a £25,000 target to allow Buckley Girls’ Gymnastics Club, which has trained at Buckley Leisure Centre for over 40 years, to buy its own facilities.