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YOU….yes you….are invited!!! To all our members parents, grown ups and friends.  Come along to our annual dinner & disco event on Saturday 11th June at Knags Function Suite, Antrim Road, Glengormley.  It’s sure to be a fun filled night with great food, great music and great prizes!!  A chance to get out without the […]

Registration for September 2016 will open for new members on Wednesday 1st June at 9am.  Applications will only be accepted in person in the gym during office hours. Unfortunately online payments will not be accepted under any circumstances.  Any payments made online will be refunded and will be charged a fee.  Current Members have had […]

All classes are on as normal this bank holiday Monday! Please remember this is the last week of rehearsals before our Annual Shows which run from Monday 6th – Saturday 11th June!

Congratulations to Owen Mulholland and Kyle Blakely who competed in Gymnastics Ireland’s MAG Levels 1-3 Floor, Vault and PPP event earlier this month.  Both boys performed well in their respective levels and age groups with Owen winning Regional Gold and National Gold All Around in Level 3 Under 14 and Kyle winning Regional Gold and […]

  Abbey, Rathgael and Kaleidoscope Gymnastics Clubs have come together to form the ARK Network.  The first ARK Event was held at Abbey in April with the 3 clubs joining together to develop the TeamGym discipline. This was a great day of activities for the 30 gymnasts and young leaders.  A wealth of information was […]

Abbey Gymnastics along with Carrickfergus Gymnastics Club were invited to Club GymFun at the University of Ulster for a Gym Challenge Event to mark 100 days to Rio! This was a fabulous evening of challenges ranging from hula hooping to trampolining, monkey swinging to partner balancing.  With 10 Challenges in total with a choice of […]

The weekend of 23rd & 24th April seen our Trampoline and Tumbling Gymnasts compete in the National Qualifier for all Levels and age groups.  This was another successful weekend with 8 of our 10 Tumbling Gymnasts medal-ling and qualifying for National Finals, our gymnasts will compete in the National Finals on 7th & 8th May. […]

Abbey hosted it’s annual In House Floor & Vault Championships on 17th April. This competition was open to all our Bright Sparks, Recreation, Advanced and Development members. Our gymnasts had been working hard on routines throughout Term 3 and competed against their peers. Medals were awarded for places 1st – 3rd on floor, vault and […]

• Valentines movie night. Thank you to everyone who supported this social event. We raised £100 for our funds. Thank you to the parents committee for organising another great event. • Forever Living Launch. Thanks to everyone who purchased Forever Living Products at our Launch in February. We raised a total o £120. If you […]

• ‘Give it a Go’ Competition was a great success for our TeamGymers. This series of events is designed for gymnasts who train 1 – 3hours per week and for the first time, the organisers introduced TeamGym as a discipline. We are looking forward to helping develop this and making it an annual event! • […]

  Abbey were delighted to host the first British Gymnastics Northern Ireland FreeG Jam in March.  This event was open to gymnasts from across the province to come together and experience the exciting world of Freestyle Gymnastics led by our very own coach Anthony Thompson. Gymnasts experienced vaulting, tricks & kicks, somersaults, precision jumping and […]

• Congrats to Young Leader Leah Morgan who passed Level 1 General Gymnastics Coaching exam. Another competent and committed coach added to our workforce! • Coaches Anthony and Shalana have attended Performance Pathway clinics over the past number of months in order to help develop Men’s Artistic and Trampoline Gymnastics as a high level competitive […]

Calendars We raised £705.00 from our calendars!! Thank you to all who purchased these. You can still order calendars during the month of January. The cost is £7.00 per calendar or £20.00 for three Smartie Tubes So far our grand total from the smartie tubes is £1,941.11 and there are still more coming in. Congratulations […]

This last few months our coaches have continued with their professional development through a variety of coaching courses including; Anthony Thompson FreeG Levels 2 & 3. Leah Morgan has started her coaching journey attending Level 1 General Gymnastics and Coaches Alison and Darcy attended another BG Performance Pathway Clinic for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics and Mairi […]

The British Gymnastics Awards were a great success with all our nominees shortlisted to the final 3 in each category. Congratulations to our Head of Recreation Darcy McClean who was awarded Participation Coach of the Year

We are pleased to report that following the Northern Ireland Schools Trampoline Championships we have 4 gymnasts qualify for Zonal Finals in Newcastle later this month. Well done to Charlee Wright Under 11 girls Novice 1st Place, Kyle Blakely Under 11 Boys Novice 1st Place, Caitlin Watts Under 11 Intermediate Girls 3rd Place, Benjamin Courtney […]

Congratulations to our MAG Gymnasts Logan and Sam McLaughlin who competed in the Irish National Levels 1-3 Grand Prix. We are delighted to report that Logan finished in 2nd place for his age group with Sam winning his category which added to his previous scores meant he won the overall Grand Prix for 2015.

WAG Level 2- 5 National Apparatus Finals were held in Limerick University in November. What an exhausting but exciting and successful event this was. With coaches and judges in the arena for a total of 28 hours over 2 days, it was worth every minute to see our gymnasts excel in their respective categories. More […]

The annual Christmas In-House competition was a great success with lots of super performances on Floor Exercise and Vault. Lots of medals and rosettes awarded for placings 1 – 4 with the additional Spirit Award presented to 6 gymnasts throughout the event for exceptional Team Spirit and progressing through individual challenges. Well done to all […]

After our successful series of Christmas events we wrapped up the season with a final performance at St Brigid’s Church Christmas Dinner.  This was a fabulous experience for our gymnasts as they not only entertained the parishioners but were also entertained by an amazing brass band and group of local dancers.  With the added bonus […]

What a privilege for our gymnasts to be invited to Belfast City Hall to perform at the Mary Peters Trust 40th Anniversary Gala evening.  This was an extra special event as not only did our gymnasts perform for Dame Mary and local sporting stars and media people but our gymnasts also performed for Dame Mary’s […]

On 7th November our gymnasts were invited to perform at the Victoria Square Christmas Lights switch on. Our group joined dancers from Gillian Doogan School of Dance, Belfast Circus School, Cool FM presenter Pete Snodden and of course Santa and Mrs Clause!!! What a great experience our gymnasts had performing in front of thousands of […]

This years JDC was hosted in Kilkeel Leisure Centre.  OUr little gymnasts performed brilliantly for their first competition resulting in a great win for the Abbey Team.  Huge thank you to the coaches, judges and volunteers who attended this event and well done to our little team!

We would like to encourage our members to provide feedback on our class structure and our organisation in the Feedback box in the foyer, provided from 9th November. If you have a special suggestion or idea of how we can improve, a positive comment you would like to make, or a constructive comment, we would […]

I want to take this opportunity to congratulate our amazing Team of coaches and volunteers as these past 2 months have been particularly busy with events. We have a great Team who have pulled together to allow classes to run as normal within the gym as well as coaches, judges, committee members and volunteers who […]

Last week we welcomed students from Belfast Model School for Girls and Dominican College, Fortwilliam. This was a positive experience for both girls with great feedback from both the students and the school. The placement gave the girls an insight into, not only coaching, but the running of a not-for-profit organisation, daily administrative duties and […]