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Kirkcaldy Mile

Kirkcaldy and Central Fife Sports Council, with the assistance of Fife Council Sports Development and Fife AC, are organising a Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile.

There are actually three different distances you can enter – the mile, 3 mile or 6 mile and they will be held in the Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy, on Sunday 25 March 2012.

Click on the links below for more information;

Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile Poster

Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile Leaflet

Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile Information

For more information and to enter an event please log on to www.sportrelief.com/the-mile enter your postcode and search, select ‘the Kirkcaldy Mile’.

Kirkcaldy & Central Fife Sports Council

At the Annual General Meeting of the Kirkcaldy Area Sports Council, held in the Adam Smith College, Kirkcaldy, on Thursday 29 September 2011, it was agreed that the name would be changed to Kirkcaldy and Central Fife Sports Council.

This was done to reflect the extended role of the Sports Council to include Glenrothes and the surrounding towns of Markinch, Leslie and Kinglassie and the expanded area that now includes the whole of Leven plus Kennoway and Windygates.

The main towns and villages covered by Kirkcaldy & Central Fife Sports Council are Kirkcaldy, Glenrothes, Leven, Burntisland, Kinghorn, Thornton, Windygates, Kennoway, Markinch, Leslie, Kinglassie, Cluny and Auchtertool.

For more information about the change Click Here.

For information about Membership Click Here.

Dunnikier Cricket Club win 2011 Forth Cricket Union League Title

The team was undefeated throughout the season.

The Club is still looking for more members to join and strengthen the squad,and of coarse defend the title in 2012. It is the only Cricket Club in Kirkcaldy and it must be kept going for the community.

Dunnikier Cricket Club awarded ClubFife Accreditation

Meg Buchanan (sports development officer) Alan Cutter (Club President) Lynn Symmers (Dunnikier Hotel)

Dunnikier Cricket Clubhas been awarded with ClubFife Accreditation at Foundation Level.

ClubFife is a quality assurance system that has been designed to help voluntary sports clubs to operate efficiently and effectively.

For more Information on the Club's accreditation Click Here.

For More Information on Dunnikier Cricket Club Click Here.

For more info on ClubFife Click Here.

“Balwearie Gymnastics Club have become the first Scottish Club to gain the prestigious GymMark Accreditation. The club, based in Balwearie High School Community Use, Kirkcaldy, in Fife are congratulated by British Gymnastics for creating a "safe, effective and child-friendly” environment for all of their gymnasts”.
British Gymnastics

GymMark is an excellent resource for clubs to ensure that best practice and progressive development is ongoing, resulting in a safe effective forum for children to realise their own potential.

Clubs participating in GymMark will benefit from the following:

By working through GymMark clubs will naturally adopt better, more organised systems and structures which will help them to run more effectively and efficiently
GymMark will encourage the progressive development of clubs under the clear direction of 4 modules; Development, Training & Events, Ethics & Welfare and administration.
Scottish Gymnastics will list those clubs that pass GymMark on their website as being safe, effective and child friendly gymnastics clubs, which will increase the clubs profile and therefore promote increased membership.
Coaches and volunteers will be working to the necessary standards therefore in an invironment that assures best practice.

Statements and Quotes:

Statement from Balwearie Gymnastics Club

"Balwearie gymnastics club was established in 1976 with about 20 gymnasts training in the gym hall at Balwearie High School Community Use. Over the years the club has flourished and we now have 304 gymnasts training in the gymnasium and the assembly hall 5 days a week. We offer women’s artistic, pre-school, display, schools and recreational gymnastics classes for both girls and boys.

As a club, achieving GymMark status gives us the confidence to promote our club as a safe, effective and child friendly club which in turn should give parents the peace of mind that their child will be taught in an environment where the gymnast is put first. This not only takes into consideration the operational policies and procedures the club has set up but the way in which all coaches and committee members promote the sport of gymnastics."

Further details on the club can be found at: www.balweariegymnastics.co.uk

Head of Education and Development at Scottish Gymnastics, Jackie Archibald said;

“Scottish Gymnastics would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Balwearie Gymnastics Club on becoming the first club in Scotland to achieve GymMark accreditation. GymMark is a UK wide club accreditation scheme which has been endorsed by all the main sports agencies within the UK as the minimum club operating standards. Balwearie Gymnastics club have fulfilled all relevant criteria to ensure best practice and progressive development is ongoing, resulting in a safe effective forum for children to realise their own potential”.

British Gymnastics Commented

SportTayside & Fife Gymnastics Development Manager – Steven Maloney comments

“In sport we recognise that the development of the club infrastructure in Scotland is crucial to the overall development of the sport from grass roots through to the performance arena. Strong clubs improve the quality of our sport and as a result provide positive experiences for all who engage in the sport.

The club have been very efficient and helpful throughout the process of GymMark and I would like congratulate and thank them for all their efforts to achieve this award. Balwearie have set the bench mark for clubs throughout Scotland and will continue to develop further”.