city of lisburn salto gymnastics centre
Salto is a vibrant and active centre, over 2000 people use our facility every
week through schools, parent and toddlers, classes and squads. We are proud to
have over 1200 current British Gymnastics members and 50 members of Gymnastics
Ireland regularly using our facilities. Through our range of programmes we offer
gymnastics activity for everyone. We have created opportunities for our
performance gymnasts to move into the Salto Gymfusion display team, sports
acrobatics or undertake level 1 coaching awards. This ensures our gymnasts can
make smooth transitions from one discipline to another at the same facility
within the same gymnastics family. Our Elite WAG and MAG squads have the
opportunity to be selected for Celtic Cup, Northern Europeans, Europeans,
Worlds, Youth Olympics, UKSG and Commonwealth Games. We are the only gym club in
Northern Ireland to be represented at all these events. We have an excellent
relationship with our local City Council in Lisburn who provided the land for
the facility and were instrumental in our bid to become an Olympic Training
camp. Our Club won the Lisburn Sports Club of the year in 2011. In addition to
our satellite clubs in the local primary schools, we have excellent links with
many schools in NI with 25 schools regularly taking part in gymnastics classes
at Salto throughout each week of the school year. In addition we work with local
education providers (FE and HE) in the provision of training, coach mentoring,
employment and work experience for their students.
