Clarence Gymnastics
Association

Current Committee Members

• President - Chris Morgan
• Vice President - Vacant
• Treasurer - Karen French
• Secretary - Bond Larkin
• General Member - Raquel Andrews
• General Member - Sam Crean
• General Member - Jo Penny
• General Member - Jess Rainga

Enabling Lifelong Well-being: The Association plays a role in nurturing healthy, active, and resilient children, families, and communities by encouraging lifelong movement and participation in gymnastics.
 Developing and Maintaining Facilities: The Association is tasked with providing safe, accessible, and well maintained facilities and systems. This ensures dedicated support for every gymnast's individual journey, whether they are involved at a community, recreational, competitive, or high-performance level.
 Fostering Governance and Culture: The Association unites volunteers, sponsors, and leaders through strong governance, collaboration, and transparency. This role is vital to ensuring a safe and inclusive environment that elevates the culture of the sport.
 Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Association helps athletes shine on state, national, and international stages, the association actively works to break down barriers by facilitating financial support, scholarships, and fundraising.
 Promoting Quality and Achievement: The Association advocates for high-quality gymnastics throughout Tasmania by celebrating achievements at all levels, supporting ongoing development, and building an inclusive, resilient sporting future.
 Ultimately, a central financial and ethical role of the association is to ensure that every dollar is reinvested back into the development of gymnastics, securing the sport's growth from the grassroots to the elite level.

We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment that promotes the safety of all children and young people. This includes encouraging a culture where the prevention and reporting of abuse is supported and encouraged. All CGA volunteers are responsible for promoting the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of children.

This Code of Conduct sets expectations for how adults should behave around children. This is important to help prevent children from being harmed. Child abuse takes many forms and can include physical, sexual and psychological abuse, ill-treatment and neglect.

This Code of Conduct identifies positive child safe behaviours that we encourage all adults to support. It also identifies behaviours that we consider unacceptable. Engaging in unacceptable behaviour is a breach of this Code of Conduct and may result in cessation of volunteer opportunities and reporting to police and/or the Office of the Independent Regulator via the Reportable Conduct Scheme.

I will:

• Treat all children and young people with respect.
• Actively promote cultural safety and inclusion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and those from other diverse communities.
• Listen to children and respond to them appropriately.
• Adhere to all relevant Australian and Tasmanian legislation.
• Participate in any required training.
• Take all reasonable steps to protect children from abuse.
• Believe any child or young person if they disclose harm or abuse and help them to access support.
• Uphold the rights of all children/ young people and always prioritise their needs.
• Report and act on any concerns or observed breaches of this Code of Conduct.

I will not:

• Condone or participate in illegal, unsafe or abusive behaviour towards children, including physical, sexual or psychological abuse, ill-treatment, neglect or grooming.
• Use hurtful, discriminatory or offensive behaviour or language with children.
• Encourage a child to communicate with me in a private setting, including online.
• Ignore or disregard any concerns, suspicions or disclosures of child abuse.
• Fail to report if I know a child has been abused.

All CGA volunteers are encouraged to speak up if they have concerns about the safety of children.

Any concerns about a breach of this Code of Conduct must be reported.
If you believe a young person is at immediate risk of harm you must ensure their safety by calling 000 for medical or police assistance and also complete the attached CGA Reportable Conduct Form (the form).

If there is no immediate risk of harm, please continue to fill in the form. Please note, the content of this report may be passed onto the Office of the Independent Regulator (OIR) as required by the Child and Youth Safe Organisations Act 2023.

ENABLE

Lifelong movement, participation and wellbeing by nurturing healthy, active, resilient children, families, and communities through gymnastics.

DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN

Safe, accessible, state-of-the-art facilities and systems that support every gymnasts journey - community, recreational, competitive, high performance.

FOSTER

Collaboration and transparency through strong governance where volunteers, sponsors, and leaders unite to ensure a safe, inclusive culture and environment that elevates the sport.

EXPAND

Access and opportunity through financial support, scholarships and fundraising, enabling athletes to shine on state, national and international stages. 

PROMOTE

High quality gymnastics in Tasmania - celebrating achievement at all levels, supporting development and building an inclusive and resilient sporting future.