Gymnastics Safety, Safeguarding and Wellbeing: Where UK Families Can Get Help

This page exists to point UK families to the right official contact — Gymnastics Explained is an independent reference site, not a safeguarding authority, and does not investigate, mediate or adjudicate individual concerns.

Start with your club’s welfare officer

Every British Gymnastics-affiliated club is required, as a condition of membership, to appoint a named welfare officer who has completed safeguarding training and a criminal record check. If you don’t know who this is at your child’s club, it’s a reasonable question to ask directly.

If your club can’t help, or the concern involves the club itself

British Gymnastics runs its own safeguarding and compliance team to handle concerns that go beyond what an individual club can resolve, including concerns about a club or coach directly. Current contact routes are published on British Gymnastics’ Safe and Fair Sport pages — check there for the up-to-date phone number, email address and reporting form, since this site does not republish a specific number it cannot independently keep current.

General UK child-safety contacts

For a concern that isn’t specific to a club, or if you’re not sure where else to turn, the NSPCC Helpline (0808 800 5000) is a general UK contact point for adults worried about a child, and Childline (0800 1111) is a free, confidential service for children and young people themselves. If a child is in immediate danger, contact the police on 999.

What this site does and doesn’t do

Gymnastics Explained explains the sport; it is not a substitute for a club’s, British Gymnastics’, or a statutory body’s safeguarding process, and it does not collect reports of concerns through this site.