Olympic legacy funding for gym club

WARRINGTON Gymnastics Club has secured £50,000 Olympic legacy funding from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities Fund.
The club, which has helped thousands of local young people get into sport since before the 1980s, will be using the funding to replace and upgrade their facilities.
The improvements include refurbishing three units on the Wharf Industrial area, to house a 13000 square foot gymnastics centre, dance studio, cafe and viewing gallery.
The new facility will enable the club to offer classes to not just the 400 children currently on the waiting list, but to every child in Warrington whom would like to participate in sport, in a facility and surrounding that they deserve. The Club will also offer other community groups the opportunity to come together under one roof.
Sport England Chair, Nick Bitel, said: “A year on from the Olympics, this National Lottery investment is helping us deliver a lasting sporting legacy in Warrington.
“With investment now on offer from our Inspired Facilities Fund until 2017, we look forward to supporting many more sports clubs in the North West who play such a vital role in grassroots sport.”
More than 1,300 local sports projects across the country have now received National Lottery funding through Inspired Facilities, part of its Olympic and Paralympic legacy programme.
Club Welfare Officer, Jan Heaton, said: “We are delighted to have secured this investment which means we can upgrade our facility to help children build a life long relationship to sport, and truly become an 2012 Olympic legacy club.”
Warrington Gymnastics Club is one of well over 300 projects across England receiving lottery investment from the fourth round of the Inspired Facilities fund and one of more than 1,300 to benefit overall.
To celebrate the award, local people are being invited to a free taster session at between 12th – 19th August to try out the sport. Please contact [email protected] to register.

Geoff Settle on 15th August 2013 8:32 am 8:32 am

This is great news my daughter told me last week when Eric who runs the enterprise told her about the move.

I remember back in the day when she used to train at the old Bewsey Street Warehouse and were having to move because the premises was going to be knocked down and they were searching for somewhere else which turned out the be the top floor of Evans House and the many steps that had to be negotiated – oxgygen mask signs were prominent on the stairway as you got to the top out of breath but fitter 🙂

It’s great to see that Eric has found a new premises and no doubt the move will take a lot of effort but you can guarentee that the youngster and parents will pitch in just like last time to see the project through. They will once more create a new legacy for the Gymnastic future. In a similar but smaller scale a Gymnastic legacy happened earlier in the year at Fearnhead.

Warrington Gymnastics Club is a great club and certainly put my daughter on a successesful career as a young gymnsatic’s coach along with many others (which 7 years on she carries on at Gt Sankey Leisure).

Thanks to Eric the gymnastic legacy continues for many more Gymnasts.

I just hope that the same is taking place at my old athletic club’s Arena at Victoria Park Arena – having organised the Chris Vose 10 km Road Race for 4 years back in the late 80’s as an ex-chair I would love the small stadium stand that rose from the ashes to be renamed something like the ‘Vose Olympic Arena’ when the track has finally been relaid. I feel that it would be a fitting legacy in memory of the British Silver Winning Cross Country Captain of the 1920 Olympics. He was also the Senior UK Cross Country Champion and an inspiration to many who have tried to follow in his footsteps – can anyone advise me how I can get this muted?

Warrington has a great deal of raw talent and with the right facilities these and other legacy building and tracks couple with people with a passion for sport, drive and enthusiam can ensure that a physical foundation is laid down and that people like coaches, parents and athletes are able to pick up the baton pick up the batton and at least inspire our youngsters amd maybe us oldies to greater things than we realise that we are capable of.

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Geoff Settle on 15th August 2013 8:32 am 8:32 am

This is great news my daughter told me last week when Eric who runs the enterprise told her about the move.

I remember back in the day when she used to train at the old Bewsey Street Warehouse and were having to move because the premises was going to be knocked down and they were searching for somewhere else which turned out the be the top floor of Evans House and the many steps that had to be negotiated – oxgygen mask signs were prominent on the stairway as you got to the top out of breath but fitter 🙂

It’s great to see that Eric has found a new premises and no doubt the move will take a lot of effort but you can guarentee that the youngster and parents will pitch in just like last time to see the project through. They will once more create a new legacy for the Gymnastic future. In a similar but smaller scale a Gymnastic legacy happened earlier in the year at Fearnhead.

Warrington Gymnastics Club is a great club and certainly put my daughter on a successesful career as a young gymnsatic’s coach along with many others (which 7 years on she carries on at Gt Sankey Leisure).

Thanks to Eric the gymnastic legacy continues for many more Gymnasts.

I just hope that the same is taking place at my old athletic club’s Arena at Victoria Park Arena – having organised the Chris Vose 10 km Road Race for 4 years back in the late 80’s as an ex-chair I would love the small stadium stand that rose from the ashes to be renamed something like the ‘Vose Olympic Arena’ when the track has finally been relaid. I feel that it would be a fitting legacy in memory of the British Silver Winning Cross Country Captain of the 1920 Olympics. He was also the Senior UK Cross Country Champion and an inspiration to many who have tried to follow in his footsteps – can anyone advise me how I can get this muted?

Warrington has a great deal of raw talent and with the right facilities these and other legacy building and tracks couple with people with a passion for sport, drive and enthusiam can ensure that a physical foundation is laid down and that people like coaches, parents and athletes are able to pick up the baton pick up the batton and at least inspire our youngsters amd maybe us oldies to greater things than we realise that we are capable of.