The Club

The club was formed in 1986 by Frank Williams and Brenda Smith. It originally trained in Staleybridge but was unable to get sufficient training hours at the very busy sports centre. It was fortunate that Stockport Council were keen to start a gymnastics facility and helped to pay for the set up of the new club based at the Dialstone Recreation Centre. Fittingly the club was called Dialstone School of Gymnastics.

In the mid 90s the club started to look for new premises and a committee was formed to attract Lottery money to build a centre of excellence in Stockport covering all gymnastic disciplines. As part of that bid it was essential to gain Stockport backing so the club name was changed to Stockport School of Gymnastics. The leotard was changed to incorporate the Town's coat of arms. The bid did not succeed and despite further attempts to find our own dedicated gymnastics facility, we are still training in the Dialstone Recreation Centre.

We are now a club that has a membership of 170 recreational  and 40 club  gymnasts. We are a child friendly club and have the quality 'Gym Mark' accreditation that covers  boys and girls between the ages of 4 to 17. We have a lot of activities, apart from gymnastics that you can read about on this website. But don't just read about us, come and join in and keep fit.

The club is a member of British Gymnastics, a Community Amateur Sports Club and a member of the Stockport Sports Council. It is run by a committee and is governed by a formally approved constitution.

We still have plans for a place of our own. How are we doing?                          Read more

Pictured to the right is Frank Williams in 1989 on the gym clubs exchange visit to Heilbronn in Germany.