International Volunteer Day 2024

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Buckley Admin

Today marks International Volunteer day 2024.

We have many volunteers in the club that go above and beyond to help the club run week to week.

Coaches – run and supporting sessions

Fundraising – help to plan and organise events and help on the day of events

Judges– We can’t run competitions without judges and we can go to competitions without sending a judge.

Adult helpers- These are parents who stay for the class. They are DBS checked and work alongside the coaches.

Sport leaders- Sport leaders are vital in all classes, they have taken the official Welsh Gymnastics course and can lead stations and support coaches in class.

Safeguarding and Wellbeing officers– our safeguarding and wellbeing officers are available anytime, they stay up to date with courses and are here for support to gymnasts, parents and coaches.

Our volunteers log their hours each week using the app Vol hours

This week we hit 1210 hours

The pie chart below shows the breakdown of how those hours are made up.

Thank you so much to all our volunteers.

If you are interested in helping at the club please message us at contact.buckleygym@gmail.com

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Class enquiries for September 2024

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Buckley Admin

UPDATE – THESE CLASSES ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED, The next term will be after the October half term break, please look out for our advert.

Our next Recreational Gymnastics classes will be in September when the school term starts.

We have classes at Buckley Leisure Centre on Saturday mornings for children aged 5 years up.

Qualified coaching run these fun, easy, beginners classes which are a great introduction to gymnastics.

Classes are 45 minutes long, and there’s three class times to choose from; 9-9.45am, 9.45-10.30am and 10.30-11.15am.

Classes are term time only. 

We advertise the classes through our social media.

Follow us on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/buckleygymnastics

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/buckleygymnastics/

A six week term is £30 (£5.00 per session – some terms may be longer as we follow school term times)

We don’t run a waiting list at the club as our new gymnasts can join these classes.

Please note – if a class is fully booked it will offer a place on the waiting list – the waiting list only counts for that term, it does not carry over – Please book a place in the following term when it restarts

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Winning weekend at the British Championships 2024

Posted on August 5, 2024 by Buckley Admin

This weekend 10 of our adult gymnasts competed in the Adult Gymnastics British Championships 2024.

Our adult gymnasts train two hours weekly and have been preparing for this year’s competition over the last few months.

Some of the gymnasts are brand new to competing, some have competed in this competition in previous years

Saturday’s competition started with the Novice 18+ category for Taija, Eleri, Lottie and Amber. It was a category with 54 gymnasts.

Eleri came 5th on vault, Taija came 2nd on vault and Amber came 1st also on vault.

Well done to them all.

Becca in the Introductory 40+ category was up against 12 gymnasts and came 4th on beam and 7th overall- Well done Becca!

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Saturday afternoon was Emilia in the Intermediate 18years + with a total of 53 gymnasts competing, Emilia came 4th overall with a 2nd on beam. A great result for Emilia.

It was Richie’s first time competing in the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, Novice over 30 category and came 12th overall, Richie competed parallel bars, horizontal bar, floor, and vault- our first adult male competitor in the club- well done Richie!

Sunday’s competition started with coach Bethan, as well as coaching our adult gymnasts, Bethan has been training herself to compete in the Novice 30+ category. Bethan came 10 overall.

Ceri, our coaching director competed in the Novice 40+ category and was the all around champion taking the gold medal, with 1st place on floor and beam and 3rd place on vault and bars- a great achievement for Ceri and the club.

The weekend finished off with our Pro 40+ gymnast Hannah,.

Hannah has competed around the world this year and was back in the adult championships, Hannah came 5th overall. She also competed with her acro team who came 3rd overall.


To complete the day our Buckley Belles won team gold!

What a brilliant weekend for our coaches and gymnasts.

A big thank you to Bethan for organising, coaching and supporting on the day. Thanks you to our other coaches Milly, Emilia and Shelley for supporting over the weekend.

We are very proud of all our gymnasts you have done the club proud.

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Summer competitions

Posted on July 7, 2024 by Buckley Admin

Over the last three weekends we have held a beach party competition with the General class gymnasts, our annual summer-themed invitational competition for gymnasts from all over North Wales, and our gymnasts have travelled to Bangor Gymnastics Club for a north area competition.

We’ve loved seeing our gymnasts compete and for some it was their first experience in a gymnastics competition.

They did so well taking home numerous ribbons and medals, plus special award certificates and poster prizes.

As a community club it’s a great opportunity to see more of our gymnasts’ families and they can see what their gymnasts have been working towards in classes.

Well done to all our General gymnasts – we’re very proud of you all.

The beach party competition for General class gymnasts included classes 1-5 who train 1-1.5 hours per week at the Gwernaffield gym.

A special thank you to the coaches for helping and supporting the gymnasts in their training and competitions.

Saturday Sunday 29-30 June

We hosted 350 gymnasts for our annual invitational competition last weekend from clubs all around North Wales.

Well done to all the gymnasts who competed – we loved having you.

A big thank you to our parents for volunteering their time and donations of goodies for our refreshment stall.

Thanks to Adult gymnasts who volunteered over the weekends – you were such a great help.

Thank you Gym Central for spending the weekend with us, selling their leotards and kit.

A mention and thank you to Tesco for their donations of refreshments for both weekends.

Sunday 7 July

On Sunday 7 July our Competition Recreation gymnasts competed in the Annette Brown North 2024 national competition.

So many ribbons, medals, and trophies for our girls – well done to them all.

The club also won the Club of the Competition award too.

A final thanks to our judges for giving up their precious weekends to represent our club.

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