Target reached!
We would love to be able to purchase more sensory equipment
TUMBLE GYMNASTICS AND ACTIVITY CENTRE FUNDRAISER
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Aim
Help Tumble Gymnastics and Activity Centre fundraise to help make the centre more accessible and sustainable.
Help us reach our £20,000 target!
Who Are We?
We are Tumble Gymnastic and Activity Centre. We are a centre who's values are inclusion, community and ambition. Our main sporting focus is on gymnastics, but the centre also hosts a lot of other sport and community activities.
What Do We Need?
The money raised from our Crowdfunder campaign will go towards upgrading facilities in the centre. This would include automating the dance studio and gymnasium doors, automating the lift door, purchasing baby/toddler weighing scales & pit socks.
Why Do We Need It?
Our centre is used by gymnasts, dancers, acrobats, gym-goers, babies, toddlers, parents, carers, students on work-experience and many others in the wider community. At Tumble, we pride ourselves in inclusivity and have worked hard to make sure our centre is as accessible as possible.
We have already taken steps to make our centre as accessible as we can and have automated the main entrance door. We would like to now automate 2 further doors + the (heavy) lift door which lead to main areas in our centre used by both wheelchair users and babies in arms/prams on a daily basis. This will increase our users independence and safety. We also would like to purchase some equipment for the centre which will help the health of our users, such as some baby/toddler weighing scales and some pit socks (which makes the foam pit safer for users with Pica).
It's important to note why we are fundraising. Covid-19 had a serious effect on our finances and resulted in a large revenue loss. Unfortunately, we don't have the funds for this and are still trying to recover money lost to keep the centre going. Improving our facilities stated through our fundraiser will enable the many disabled people, and buggy users, in the centre have improved access to all of our sessions at Tumble.
Why Are These Upgrades Important To Us?
Accessing a facility easily and independently is incredibly important, especially to disabled users. By implementing these upgrades we hope that this will have a positive impact in users, especially disabled users, taking part in sport and the arts. Being able to get from the car park up to the dance studio independently with automatic doors means that both disabled people, and those with buggies, will be able to access the centre when there's not extra staff around. This alone will improve participation in the arts (dance) and sports (gym) which are both upstairs. The hope it it will also improve physical wellbeing and mental wellbeing, being able to participate in these sessions and improve relationships with family/friends through reduced isolation. Finally, the increased access will allow us to run training and education sessions in the dance studio, which has accessible flooring/etc, and allow more service users to enjoy this space.
What Can You Do To Help?
We are Crowdfunding £20,000 to fund these upgrades and would LOVE your support!
How can you help?
- Make a Donation
- Raise sponsorship for us
- Share this page
- Let us know if a business would like to help us with sponsorship or our accessibility upgrades
- Offer a prize or reward for our campaign
- Come visit Tumble! Whether it's for a fundraising event or just saying hi, we'd love to see you
ALT PICTURE 1 - A photo with some of the Tumble Team together at the opening. There are 12 adults including 1 in a wheelchair getting ready to cut a red ribbon in the gym. All are smiling.
ALT PICTURE 2 - A picture of the lift which needs automating. It is a white door and is in a cafe with metal seats in it.
ALT PICTURE 3 - A photo of the dance studio. There is a logo of Kate Stanforth Academy of Dance which is a wheelchair user dancing on the wall in grey and white. There is also sensory equipment on the floor ready for a session. The room is decorated in duck egg blue, grey and white.
ALT PICTURE 4 - A photo of the gymnasium from above. The gym floor is a large red floor. There is a tumble track, pieces of gym equipment, a foam pit and trampolines.
ALT PICTURE 5 - Two females in matching purple, navy and white sportswear next to each other in their wheelchairs with their arms out smiling. They are in a dance studio
Sport England: Active Together has provided £10,000 of match funding
This project successfully funded on 8th January 2022