Who are we and what are we trying to achieve?
We are a trampoline & gymnastics club based in Plymouth providing fun and engaging structured classes to over 400 students every week! After being founded in 2015 with just a single trampoline and only 15 members over the past 10 years our club has grown so much with increasing our classes and members every year, expanding our coaching team and now with multiple trampolines, a double-mini trampoline and full artistic gymnastics set up as well! We offer classes for all abilities, from complete beginners to those competing at the elite level. Our amazing coaches strive every session to enable each and every one of our members to have a fantastic experience in gymnastics and achieve their individual goals, whatever they may be!
For the past 10 years we have run all our sessions out of a school sports hall, setting up and down all of the equipment every session. Although our current venue has been great for us for all of these years, it does come with limitations! We are restricted in the number of classes we can offer due to timings we can access the hall, and although we fit in as much as we can, we are also limited in the equipment we can use by the storage space available, which leads us on to our new venture…
After 10 years of hard work behind the scenes we are ready to expand the club and have secured a new full-time venue which we are so excited to open in March 2025! This new venue gives up the opportunity to run so many more classes and a wider range of disciplines allowing us to offer our services to so many more people within the Plymouth area! Our goals for the new venue include:
- Developing essential links to Plymouth Schools to give the opportunity to the many that would otherwise not have the ability to take part in this fantastic sport.
- Offer an engaging programme to the disability community.
- Increase our session offering to include pre-school, parent and toddler and adult’s classes.
- Increase participation from 400 children a week to over 1000.
- Create exciting jobs and apprenticeships for local residents.
How we’ll spend the money raised?
Getting this new venue ready for opening carries with it some huge costs! Through our previous fundraising efforts, we have been able to make a great start on gathering the funds needed for some essential building work as well as getting the gym fully equipped and ready to be used, however there is still lots we want to achieve. The money raised from this crowdfunding will be used to purchase new equipment with our priorities being matting for our beam area which we are sure will raise the gymnast’s confidence on the equipment and allow all our gymnasts to achieve so much in their beam training, as well as upgrading our trampoline equipment and the matting around our trampolines for the best trampoline experience in Plymouth!
How can you help?
1. Make a pledge and donate. We are hugely grateful for all donations big and small which will get us on our way to making our dreams a reality!
2. Spread the word. Share our project on your social media pages and tell the world to get behind us! The more people we reach, the more support we will get.
3. If you want to run your own fundraiser to support us, maybe a sponsored activity or similar, use the 'contact project' button at the top of our page to let us know. Setting up your own page only takes a few minutes and you won’t need any bank details. Just a fun idea!