Pre-School set to benefit!

Esprit Gymnastics Academy has at last received some good news.

In the Evening Advertiser on September 29 it was reported that the long awaited purpose built gymnastics academy that was to be opened in Swindon had fallen through because the landlord changed his mind. However after 2 months of frantic searching Esprit have agreed a deal on a new building and are confident that they can secure planning on its use as a gymnastics training centre.

In the meantime it has been business as usual for Esprit gymnasts, the Wootton Bassett Carnival committee were so impressed with a display the clubs gymnasts performed at their carnival earlier this year they have awarded the Esprit Gymnastics club a £100 to buy equipment for their pre-school classes.

As well as this welcome donation Esprit have been able to send no less than SIX of their coaching staff on training courses, all courtesy of the Sport England Lottery fund. Joint heads of coaching Deb Hows And Katy Smith said “Swindon has a wealth of untapped talent that is currently un-catered for and with the additional expertise the Sport England funding will bring we will be able to take children from Pre-school gymnastics right through to British and World Championship level”.

“Current and 4 times British Rhythmic Gymnastics Champion Rebecca Jose was born in Swindon and had to travel to London to receive adequate training, but we want the future champions of Swindon to have the opportunity to be trained to the highest level right here. The best way to ensure children achieve their full potential is to first encourage them to enjoy physical activity, this is something we all know children do not do enough of and is why we have developed Esprit’s Pre-School gymnastics programme.”

All we are waiting for now is SBC planning department to accept our planning application and we will be able to start training the future gymnastics champions of Swindon.

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