Thanks to everyone who has sent in nominations for

NEGA Awards. The last day to nominate is

December 31st though early nominations would be

welcome so that I have time to order the awards

and send out letters to everyone involved!

The Awards Evening is at the Hardwick Hall Hotel,

Sedgefield TS21 2EH at 7.00pm on Saturday,

February 18th. Tickets are £27 to include a three

course Dinner.

Menu details and a form to order meals has been

circulated by email and a further copy will be sent

to Clubs shortly.

We often Congratulate gymnasts in NEGA News but we

also have some very good news from Coaches ……..

Karl Wharton MBE - Elected to the FIG Acrobatics

Technical Committee

Brian Everett MBE – Elected as President of British

Gymnastics

Sam, Hannah, Abbie and Lesley from City of Newcastle –

Successfully passing their Level 4 Coaching Award

recently. An excellent result! HPC next!!

And also….

Les Hodgson, on achieving his full Level 3 Performance

Coach qualification. It has taken Les four years of work,

study and training with visits to Rotherham, Durham,

South Tyneside, Newcastle, BG HQ at Lilleshall and also

to Edinburgh.

During that time, he has worked with some of the most

qualified coaches in England and Scotland, including the

National Commonwealth Games Scottish team coach,

Sandy Richardson, shown below with Les and gymnasts

at Sandy’s amazing school gym facility in Scotland.

Les has undertaken this long task in his own time

alongside the many hours he works in, and for, the club

every week, wholly as a volunteer.

Huge thanks go to all the gymnasts who have attended

the training with Les, and worked with him in the club;

without their help this would not have been possible.

Congratulations to Les from everyone at Northern GC.

For those of you working on Level 3…..the next Theory

Module is at Sheffield Hallam University on the 10th &

11th June 2017. Details on BG web site.

North Awards 2016

Congratulations to…..

CHANGES to JUDGING COURSES

As you may be aware, from January 2017 all club, regional and

national judging courses will be organised by British Gymnastics,

following the same processes and procedures for coach education.

We are committed to working towards a standardised framework for

the delivery of judge education courses and the costs for learners will

be consistent across the regions and has been standardised to £50

per day, (e.g. 2-day course is £100). The enrolment process will be

the same as the coaching courses, using our Find a Course and online

payment facilities.

To help implement the programme we now have a dedicated Judge

Education team in place, working in close collaboration with our team

in each region to ensure these changes occur efficiently. All judging

courses will be based within a classroom environment so that each

learner receives the same high quality learning experience.

We will be working very closely with our discipline-specific judge

education representatives over the next few months to ensure a

smooth transition of logistics and course organisation, including

ensuring tutors are suitably equipped to start delivery throughout

2017.

The order of roll-out for all disciplines (apart from Team Gym which

follows the UEG timescale) is as follows:

BG National courses (February – April 2017)

BG Regional, County and Club courses (April 2017) onwards

If you are currently a judge in any discipline, other than Floor

and Vault Level 1 and Floor and Vault Level 2 you will need to

attend a course in 2017 in order to re-validate and maintain

your judging qualification.

FUNDING from BG – from Kate Davies

“Make a Difference” programme, is perfectly suited to

club’s who would like to recruit and train new welfare

officers. Club’s need to run a small recruitment drive at

their club. BG supply all the resources completely free of

charge; post presentation they can apply for funding to

upskill their new volunteers. Alternatively, if they have

recently recruited new volunteers the club can still apply

for funding without running the presentation. Here is the

link - http://bit.ly/29vwnmB

From Geoff

Grant at BG

V-Inspired – This organisation works with young people

up to 25, and can be utilised as a means to recruit

volunteers, or to advertise as an avenue perhaps for

Regional involvement at a committee level? This is also a

good avenue for existing academies to look at a project

or seek some funding through their V-Cashpoint

initiative. This is also a good point where young leaders

can log their hours and gain some recognition for their

time. https://vinspired.com/

Do-it.org – This site links through to different options

that are available. This might be useful for clubs as well

as young people and for yourselves. There is also a site

where you can look for someone with certain skills that

you may need on a free-basis, so collectively some useful

resources here. http://doittrust.org/

Join-In & Big Thank You – Join In is a national website to

link volunteers in sport with opportunities. Clubs can

build a profile, advertise and it can be used for Events

also. The link below also gives information regarding

their Big Thank You initiative, which is timed to recognise

volunteers in line with the Sports Personality of the Year

event, and as an initiative scheduled for 18th December

2016. Anyone can nominate, and anyone can access this,

so it is a good one to use.

https://www.joininuk.org/nominate-volunteer-big-

thank-you-call/

Finally, I also attach a link to some good guidance

information around Volunteering that Sport England

provide, which can be a really good source of generic

information for any and all volunteers. This is below:

https://www.sportengland.org/volunteeringexplained

For anything where we can help, please just drop us a

note to volunteering@british-gymnastics.org and we will

be happy to help.

LEVEL 3 Coaching Modules All coaches are now

required to be assessed within a two-year window. This

applies whether or not the coach intends to take Level 3

skills into competition. The cost will increase to £100

including the sign off fee. Coaches are responsible for

contacting an assessor to

arrange sign off.

From British Gymnastics Volunteers

Kelly has sent in this report from SOUTH DURHAM

GYMNASTICS CLUB…..

October 2016

Congratulations to South Durham Gymnastics Club who

were crowned overall Team Champions at the recent

North Voluntary Levels Team Finals as well as being

crowned champions in Level 6, 4 & 3 respectively.

November 2016

Congratulations to Mercedes Moore & Josie Kwok from

South Durham who have been invited to be part of the

British Gymnastics Performance Pathway squad for 2017

following their outstanding results at the National

Voluntary Levels in November. Team mates Ellie, Isobel

and Mia also competed brilliantly at these

championships.

December 2016

More amazing results for the Pink Ladies at the British

Espoir Championships held last weekend in Basildon.

Lydia Collins, Mia Scott and Leah Greenland all

competed brilliantly and their results

reflected their outstanding work.

Lydia finished in 23rd position, Mia in 8th and Leah in

4th in the All-around competition. In the apparatus

finals, the following day Mia competed the bar routine of

her life to take away the Silver medal, confirming her as

one off the top bar workers of her age in the country.

Leah competed in the beam final where she smashed her

routine and again took

away the silver medal

on this apparatus. To

finish what was

already a hugely

successful weekend,

Leah then went on to

take the bronze medal

on the floor.

As a result of their

great performances

Leah Greenland and

Mia Scott have now

been invited to be a

part of the British

Junior Squad for 2017.

A fantastic end to

2016 for the girls and

the club!

Durham Gymnastics Club

There have been exciting results from Tumblers across

the region throughout the year! A number of gymnasts

from DGC recently represented Great Britain at the

International Loulé Cup.

Rebecca Temperley, Lauren Husband, David Richardson

Lewis Westwood and Lydia Overal all achieved very good

results in their respective age groups.

James Richardson was again outstanding, taking the Gold

Medal for the 2nd year in a row at this prestigious event.

Team mates Melissa Overal and Darcey Garbutt have

made National Squad at 10/Under and they along with

Lucy Aston, Mary Young, Sophie Allen, Lucia Woodhouse

and all the Clubs Tumblers are hoping for more

international experiences in 2017.

Exciting Times for Redcar, Tyneside and Gymtopia NE

Gymnastics Clubs who are all moving into new premises

in 2017.

Club News

GENERAL GYMNASTICS:

The GGTC Partner and Group Challenge Competition is

always popular and this year was no exception. Eight

Clubs took part including Derwent Valley competing at

regional level for the first time. There was some very

good work from all the Clubs and medals were shared.

Well done to all the gymnasts and coaches from

GymWorld, Darlington, Inspired, Northern Hope, Robert

Atkison, DC Gymnastics, Richmondshire, Gateshead TG,

Gymtopian NE, Acklam and Hartlepool Gymnastics Club

who all entered either full teams or Micro teams in the

recent GGTC North TeamGym Competition. The event

was held at Hartlepool GC and many thanks go to all the

coaches and volunteers from the club for all their help.

Thanks also to the judge who worked through a long

day. With 34 micro teams and 12 full teams to judge

that’s well over 200 gymnasts!

Neil from DC wrote ‘We have one team truly ecstatic at

their first participation in competitive Gymnastics, with

medals around the neck, chins held high with broad,

broad grins and parents in various states of tears of

pride. These Gymnasts may not be NDP Tumblers, but

hey, they can compete with pride and joy in Team Gym.

It hits the mark spot on. Well done.

The next event is SPORT for ALL being held at

Richmondshire GC, Catterick on February 26th, Entry

closing date is January 26th. This is a competition for

beginner gymnasts who may not have competed in any

event (other than a school competition) prior to taking

part.

TRAMPOLINE and TUMBLING from English Gymnastics

We listened to the issues surrounding this year’s

inaugural competition, and felt that we needed to get

competition dates for 2017 out to all English Clubs and

Regions as soon as possible. I am now excited to be able

to confirm that the following dates have been fixed for

next year’s events:

English Trampoline, DMT & Tumbling Qualifiers (Bronze

and Silver Levels Competition 1):

Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th April 2017

English Trampoline, DMT & Tumbling Qualifiers (Bronze and Silver Levels Competition 2):

Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st May 2017

Trampoline, DMT & Tumbling English Championships 2017:

Saturday 30th September and Sunday 1st October 2017

The handbook will be published on the English

Gymnastics Website (www.englishgymnastics.org.uk)

and emailed out to all Clubs and Regions as soon as

possible, with details of the competition venues and the

full layout of the English Competition structure.

We hope you come along and join in the English

Championship Series and look forward to seeing you at

the competitions above in 2017

Thanks to everyone who paid their 2017 Affiliation to

NEGA by December 1st. Certificates will be posted to

you over the next week

If you used the facility to pay by BACS but have not yet

sent a copy of your Affiliation form for 2017 please could

you email it across in the next few days. This is the only

up to date record we have and sometimes we do need to

ring or email coaches, welfare offices and other officials.

Competitions: All the dates I have received so far as

shown on the next page.

If your Club is running an inter-club event, please could

you send in the details before advertising so that we can

avoid any clashes.

TC News….

Regional News

Thanks to Everyone who has contributed to NEGA News. The next

edition will be due in March 2017.

NORTH DATES 2017

Date Discipline Organiser Event Venue Entry By

January 22nd TeamGym Club Newcastle Open Team Gym City of Newcastle

January 24th Schools Region Milano Competition Cumbria Dec 16th

February 5th Schools Region Acrobatics and Tumbling Northern Hope Jan 6th

February 24-25 Acrobatics National Pat Wade Classic Fenton Manor

February 26th General Region Sport for All Catterick LC Jan 26th

March 4-5th Acrobatics Region NDP and IDP Prelims South Tyneside

March 4-5th TeamGym National Qualification Edinburgh

March 5th Women A. Region NDP South Durham

March 10-11th School National Milano Championship Fenton Manor

March 18th Schools National Trampoline Championship North tbc

March 19th Tumbling Region NDP Regional Finals Durham City

March 19th Women A Region Compulsory and National Grades Newcastle

March 22nd Schools Region School Team Floor and Vault Hartlepool Feb 24th

April 9th General Region Floor and Vault Recreation Gateshead March 9th

April 23rd General Region Floor and Vault Club and above Hartlepool March 9th

May 6-7th Schools National Floor & Vault and Acrobatics Finals Fenton Manor

May 7th Women A Region Regional Grades 654321 Newcastle

May 13-14th Acrobatics National NDP Finals Fenton Manor

June 25th Acrobatics Region Regional Team and Open South Tyneside

July 27-30th Acro & TG National British Championships Liverpool

September 24th Women A Region Voluntary Levels British Dev 543 Redcar

September 29th Women A Region North Voluntary Teams

October 7-8th Women A Region North Voluntary Levels Newcastle

Nov. 18-19th Acrobatics National Club Team Championships Fenton Manor

December 3rd Acrobatics Region Pre-Grades Competition South Tyneside

Course Costs:

UKCC Level 1 - £319 for BG members or £419 for non-members. UKCC Level 2 - £499 for BG members or £619 for non-members.

If there are any other courses you would like setting up to run in your venue, or if you want to attend a course that isn’t on the list

please email me.

Applications AND payment must be received by the course closing date which is 4 weeks before the course starts. Any

course places cancelled later than 4 weeks prior to day 1 must still be paid for.

Contact Details: Emma Lawton, BG Coach Education North, PO Box 632, Durham, DH1 9JT. Tel: 07581 365246

emma.lawton@british-gymnastics.org

Coaching Courses 2017

Course Dates Venue Tutor Closing Date

UKCC Level 1 Trampoline

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14 & 21 Jan and 4 &

11 Feb (9am – 1pm

each day)

South Tyneside

Gymnastics Club

Lynda Kouache 15.12.16

UKCC Level 1 Womens

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14 & 28 Jan 2017 Kendal School Of

Gymnastics

Gayle Crowell 15.12.16

UKCC Level 2 Acro

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15, 28 & 29 Jan and

12 Feb 2017

Gymworld, M’Bro

College

Deny Hill 16.12.16

UKCC Level 2 Tumbling

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15, 28 & 29 Jan and

12 Feb 2017

Gymworld, M’Bro

College

Nickie Green 16.12.16

UKCC Level 1 Pre-School

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22 Jan & 4 Feb 2017 Northern Hope GC Lynn Hope 23.12.16

UKCC Level 1 Acro

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22 Jan & 4 Feb 2017 Northern Hope GC Sam Robson 23.12.16

UKCC Level 1 Womens

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5 & 19 Feb 2017 Darlington GC Enid Harrison 04.01.17

UKCC Level 1 Trampoline

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25 Feb & 11 March

2017

AAA Sports Yacine Kouache 14.01.17

UKCC Level 1 General

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9 & 23 April 2017 Northern Hope Gym

Club

Debbie Couch 09.03.17

UKCC Level 2 General

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9, 22, 23 April and 21

May 2017

Northern Hope Gym

Club

Lynn Hope 09.03.17

UKCC Level 1 General

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9 & 23 July 2017 Hartlepool

Gymnastics Club

Shelly Walton 08.06.17

UKCC Level 1 Womens

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9 & 23 July 2017 Hartlepool

Gymnastics Club

Enid Harrison 08.06.17