15 October 2025
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Sussex Trampoline & DMT Discipline Report
15th October 2025
Sussex Gymnastics Meeting
Sussex Competitions since last meeting: -
11th May 2025 – TRA Sussex County Clubs – Uckfield
64 entries, from 6 Clubs
12th October 2025 – TRA Sussex County Clubs – Durrington
59 entries, from 4 Clubs
1st November 2025 – DMT Sussex Championships – Durrington (planned)
2nd November 2025 – TRA & TRS Sussex Championships – Seaford (planned)
98 entries, from 5 Clubs
14th December 2025 – TRA, DMT & TUM BG Club Levels, incorporated with Kent & Surrey – Gillingham
1st February 2026 – TRA, DMT & TUM BG Club Levels, incorporated with Kent & Surrey – Gillingham
8th March 2026 – TRA, DMT & TUM BG Club Levels, incorporated with Kent & Surrey – Gillingham
Julie Belchamber
Sussex Trampoline & DMT Discipline Representative
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Tumble Report – October 2025
There’s not a great deal to report this month, as since our last update, Sussex Tumble has only participated in one competition — the Sussex Championships, held on 28th September 2025.
As always, it was a fantastic day enjoyed by all. We were thrilled to welcome all Sussex clubs once again, and each performed brilliantly, bringing home a great number of medals.
We were especially excited to welcome a new club from the 1066 area, who joined us for the second time. It’s always great to see the Sussex tumble community growing, and we look forward to seeing more from them in future events.
Both Nikki and I would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended and contributed to making the event such a success. We’re also incredibly grateful for the continued support shown to us and to Sussex Tumble over the years — it truly means a lot.
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Sussex Gymnastics Welfare Report October 2025
Since the last meeting Dawn has visited several clubs giving advice, she also attended the Sussex Tumble Competition last month as the Competition Welfare officer.
Later this month Mike is the Competition Welfare Officer for the Sussex Acro competition.
Sussex Police, in conjunction with the Active Sussex Welfare Officers, have relaunched the forum for welfare leads in sports and LADOs. The online meeting gives us an opportunity to network with welfare leads from other sports and to share good practice. The forum meets every 3 months with the next meeting in Early December.
Dawn will be attending the BG national conference for Regional and Club Welfare Officers in Bradford in November.
Dawn Hyland
Mike Gevaux
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Sussex Meeting October 2025 Women’s Report
We have had a Regional Championships and 2x Sussex Championships since the last meeting with a further Regional Championships to take place.
Over 160 gymnasts competed at the Sussex Championships this year showing the depth within the 8 clubs that entered.
9 Sussex gymnasts have been selected into the South East Regional squad with a further 4 as reserves. These gymnasts are from Horsham, Uckfield and Wickers.
4 Sussex gymnasts will be competing at National Finals in November with a further 6 representing Sussex at the Rushmoor Rosebowl International. Teams from South Africa, Wales and England are represented this year.
Georgia Stables represented the South East at the Sandra Clarke Cup taking the team gold as well as the bars gold. She has also been selected to represent England at the upcoming Northern Europeans and she is very grateful for the financial support from the county.
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Competition and events
Regional set-work qualifier (28 September 2025): Hawth had 8 gymnasts competing. Of that, 6 qualified for set-work finals.
Calendar
- 26 October, Grades training, Pegasus GC
- 31 October - Grades finals, Telford
- 19 April 2026 - Regional Championships, Pegasus GC
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Sussex Gymnastics County Treasurers Report
1 April to 30 September 2025
At the end of September 5 competitions have been completed and 3 more are underway or completed awaiting final costs.
The numbers competing are not as great as last year however our competitions are well managed and give a return to the county once all costs have been paid.
There have been 18 applications for training grants from 9 different clubs so far, with another 2 applications in progress. Grants asked for are in the main for level 1-3 BG coaching courses, and only one application has been received for HP funding and one for England squad expenses.
Even though take up is much higher this year there is money available to apply for, to cover lots of different training some up to 100% of costs are covered, look at the county web site for more information.
Following approval at the AGM an additional £5000 has been transferred from the bank account to the county savings account where it will earn interest for us.
Our bank has written to say the £5 monthly charge for operating our account has been stopped, although small that is a step in the right direction. Interest at our bank is not open to us, hence our separate interest bearing savings account which as I reported last quarter earnt £763 last year
Keith Walter
County Treasurer
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The next Sussex Committee meeting will be held on 15th October 2025, 11am at the John Selden, BN13 2EN.
Apologies for absence
- Nikki Huggins
- Mike Poore
- Sarah Dyson-Bottle
- Sally-Anne Warner
- Emma Webber
- Heather Sampford
Chair’s Report
Treasurer’s Report
Discipline Reports
- General
- Festival
- Acrobatics
Trampoline - Tumble
- Team-gym - Nothing to report
- Men's ArtisticWomen's Artistic
Welfare report
Any other business
Next meeting
Wed 4th Feb 2026 - Emma did you find a venue closer to your way? If not - where do people want to hold the meeting - suggesting we go over towards East Sussex as been to West and up to Crawley?