Active Gym has been training gymnasts in Walsall for 20 years. We’re a team of experienced, British Gymnastics qualified coaches that are enthusiastic about what we do. Our aim is to support your child as they fall in love with gymnastics, and to help them achieve their goals across all apparatus.

Although many of our gymnasts do opt to wear our navy blue leotards and shorts, or hawaiian blue hoodies, these are not compulsory. Children are welcome in sports clothes or simply clothes they can move around in. On the weeks leading up Christmas and other holidays, festive jumpers are perfect.

We do advise that gymnasts go barefoot or wear special gymnastics/trampolining socks with grips on the bottom.

Long hair should be tied back or plaited, and all jewellery should be removed or covered.

Those attending our Preschool sessions, these classes are Parent and Child sessions, and we ask for the adult supporting your child to follow our clothing guidelines too.

All of our sessions begin with a warm up- usually with a game. We find this is a great way to break the ice for anxious new gymnasts and for them to get to know their coaches.

After stretching, gymnasts are moved into groups depending on ability, age, experience and height. This ensures that each child is with others that are similar to them.

Each group of gymnasts then begins moving around the equipment with their coach. Some of our equipment includes: bars, beam, trampoline, vault and floor. Whilst on the equipment, their coach will work to challenge the group of gymnasts to new skills and will look to progress their ability across all pieces.

At the end of the class, each coach takes some time to speak with their gymnasts and evaluate their session, before dismissing them off to their adult.

Booking in your little gymnast is simple and is done online in less than two minutes. We’ll ask you for some necessary information such as emergency contact details.

Once we’ve got everything we need, you’re welcome to bring your child to their free trial session. This will be the session they then attend reguarly if they enjoy their class.

Please note that some sessions are fully booked and will not be available to book online. For these session, please add your child to the waiting list using the same link.

Waiting lists can vary in length and depend on the number of gymnasts in the session. We’re aiming to open up new sessions for gymnasts to attend soon. A rough estimate on the wait time is a couple of weeks to a few months, but that does differ from class to class. We recommend adding your child to as many waiting lists as you’re available for to shorten the wait time until you’re in sessions with us.

We host gymnastics club sessions in three centres in Walsall:

Bloxwich Active Living Centre, High St, Bloxwich, Walsall WS3 2DA

Oak Park Active Living Centre, Coppice Rd, Walsall Wood, Walsall WS9 9BH

Manor Farm Community Centre, King George Cres, Walsall WS4 1EU

For more information on our session timetables, please visit Sessions.

If you have filled out a waiting list form for a fully booked session, you will receive an email when we have space available in the session, not when you complete the form.

Sometimes, these emails can end up in your spam/junk folder. Ensure your child doesn’t miss out on their space by adding our email address - info@active-gym.co.uk - as a trusted contact inside your email.

To do this, click here.

Children who attend sessions in one class are welcome to switch to a different one at the beginning of a new month, providing that the class has availability and they are booked on beforehand. This is best arranged by email.

If the desired session you’d like to swap your child to is currently full, please add them to the waiting list instead and we’ll be in touch as soon as we have space.

We take photo consent seriously at our club, and take the following steps to protect our members:

1. We always ask your permission to take photographs of your child when you first sign them up to join our club.

2. We only take photos on club-owned, password encrypted devices, that are only managed by a select few people in our club.

3. We ask spectators to only take photos of their child, and to avoid any photography that will feature another child.

If you have any questions about photo consent at Active Gym, please see our Terms and Conditions.

You’re welcome to drop off and pick up your child from our sessions, providing they have been signed in at our desk and we have contact information for you.

We continue on as normal during half term holidays in October, February and May half term.

We take a break from our regular term-time gymnastics during Christmas, Easter and Summer holidays. However, we often host holidays camps in the mornings or afternoons.

Holiday camps can be booked on onto here.

If you’re looking to find out when the last session is before the Summer holidays, please see our Calendar

Please arrive no more than 5 minutes before your child's session start time, and no more than 15 minutes late.

For dismissal, please ensure you collect your child on time.

This is the same for your child's free trial, regular session and any holiday camps they attend.

We do have peaks and dips depending on the time of year, but we're fortunate to have so many children excited to come to gymnastics.

When you arrive at your child’s session, it will likely be busy with the children from the previous class either leaving or finishing up on the equipment. Rest assured that it will quieten down once your child’s warm up has finished. If you would prefer to drop off your child, you are more than welcome to.

Sometimes, the sessions can look a little chaotic to the untrained eye - there's lots of children doing lots of things! However, rest assured that the all the children in each coach's group is working towards a specific skill in their area. This may be a skill on the apparatus or a skill that part of our certificate programme.

If you forget something, we will try to find it and keep hold of it until next week. Sometimes however, this isn't possible as things can be picked up by other gymnasts and others who use the centres. It could also be the case that things are left and not spotted by the coaching team, so are collected by cleaners and handed into the centre. Please ask at reception in case your missing item has been handed in.

Active Gym accepts no responsibility for lost, damaged or stolen items. Yours and your child's belongings are brought to sessions at your own risk.