The Gymnastics NZ Education Programme is delivered by a wide range of trained presenters from within our gymnastics community. These presenters are located all over the country enabling us to host courses across all regions. A presenter training course for eight new presenters was held in Dunedin in April to make courses and workshops more accessible for those in the … Read More

Earlier this year we re-structured the Relationship Management team. One of the key contributing factors for this change was the $400,000 per annum reduction of funding from Sport NZ. We landed on a model that we hoped would have minimal impact on service delivery and club engagement with our regionally based staff, whilst cutting back on the administrative tasks that … Read More

There has been considerable interest from clubs to grow TeamGym in NZ following the TeamGym Workshop delivered by Brooke Kneebush from Gymnastics Australia at the Gym For All Symposium last year. TeamGym is an exciting style of group performance, recommended for participants aged 8 years and over. It is based on the popular international European TeamGym competition combining parts of … Read More

A new National Tumbling Programme that will cater for all levels of participation is being developed by the Tumbling development group for roll out in 2018.   A draft Handbook will be available by the end of September and coach education will start being offered from November 2017. Any questions can be directed to Margaret Wilton, Gymnastics NZ Programme Development Manager. … Read More

Exciting times for Gymnastics NZ when a partnership agreement was reached with Waitoa Free Range Chicken in December 2016. One of the most important aspects of the partnership agreement was its direct value at club level, this has been evident from the following contributions that have been seen across the country so far: · 15,000 ‘Waitoa Star of the Week’ … Read More

During 2016 Gymnastics NZ was very focused on gathering insights to support the development of a Programme Framework that will be a guiding document for future programme direction. Insights are gathered from a range of data and information.  The term membership data that clubs supply is uploaded to our central database and allows the analysis of membership to identify trends … Read More

Maintaining and increasing participation rates in sport is a key part of Sport NZ’s Strategic Plan and Community Sport Strategy.  The Sport NZ Insights Team have developed a range of initiatives to support the delivery of their strategy including the development of an interactive online insights tool. (Link to the Insights article in the last regional e-news on how to … Read More

High Performance Sport New Zealand Prime Minister’s Scholarships support athletes, coaches, support team members and officials to gain educational or professional qualifications while continuing in sport. Prime Minister’s Officials’ Scholarships helps judges gain the skills to officiate at pinnacle events. With the revalidation required across all gymnastics codes, Gymnastics NZ was able to successfully apply for a group application to assist … Read More

Club capability development is a crucial part of the Regional Relationship Manager (RRM) role. However, the needs of Clubs vary from Club to Club and region to region. With a small team working across the entire country, Regional Action Plans (RAPs) were developed in 2015 to capture the key National and Regional priorities and to ensure that these sit at … Read More

Every year Gymnastics New Zealand reports back to Sport New Zealand on what we have achieved against their investment. This is one of the reasons why the submission of your membership and participation data is so important to us. Here are some of the other important factors: It shows the size of our regional, and national, membership which is a … Read More