About Synergy Gymnastics London
Gymnastics is about discovery, respect and fun.
Years of experience
Mission Statement
We are more than just gymnastics
South East London faces many concerning issues including low levels of physical activity, high levels of childhood obesity, poverty and gang violence.
We believe that Gymnastics and sport can be a force for good and help in providing an answer to these issues in our local community.
Synergy is about more than just Gymnastics and this is what drives us to provide as many great opportunities as possible for everyone that we connect with.
Our vision is for a more healthy and active local community, with gymnastics and sport at the heart.
Our History
- 2010 Southwark Gymnastics Club is formed and takes over sessions running in Brunswick Park Primary School and Peckham Academy with around 250 members
- 2011 Classes move from Peckham Academy into Camberwell Leisure Centre which run five days per week
- 2012 Incorporated as a Community Interest Company
- 2012 Dominic Mensah becomes first SGC member to represent Great Britain (Tumbling World Cup Sofia, Bulgaria)
- 2013 First full time member of staff and weekly capacity exceeds 400
- 2014 Delivery of the whole PE curriculum for Brunswick Park School handed over to the club. Sessions now being delivered seven days a week at this venue
- 2015 Four full time staff and 20 part time coaches
- 2016 Khalid Kerr wins a historic Bronze at the European Team Gym Championships 2017 Satellite Centre at Charles Dickens School opens with a capacity of a further 200 places
- 2018 Weekly capacity exceeds 1,000 / Five full time members of staff
- 2019 Waiting list for children’s recreational programme reaches 1,500
- 2021 Club successfully returns to pre-covid participation numbers
Years of experience
Recent History
- In 2022 Southwark Gymnastics Club CIC changed names to become Synergy Gymnastics London CIC
- When we found out that a state of the art gymnastics centre in Greenwich wasn’t being used, it inspired us to try and get it back open for the local community, but being in Greenwich, we could no longer have the name Southwark!
- Our venue at Thomas Tallis School is our fourth venue to open alongside Camberwell Leisure Centre, Brunswick Park School (Camberwell) and Charles Dickens School (Borough High Street)
- Community values are at the heart of what we do. Inclusion, physical activity and opportunities for all underpin all of our thinking.
- As a Community Interest Company all of our assets are locked for community use. Although we are a non-profit organisation, we think and act like a business. However all of our surplus funds are reinvested into improving the club such as new equipment, coach training and subsidising low income participants.
- Our coaches have experience at both High Performance and Recreational level in Artistic Gymnastics, Tumbling and Team Gym
Our vision is for a more healthy and active local community, with gymnastics and sport at the heart.