President’s Report

Singapore Gymnastics is proud of the gymnastics community for staying engaged with the sport through what has been another challenging year facing restrictions.

Our Second Olympian In History A light in the midst of the difficulties was sending Singaporean gymnast Tan Sze En to the 2020 Olympics in late July 2021 to compete in balance beam and floor. Sze En is the second Singaporean gymnast to achieve this feat and follows in the footsteps of Lim Heem Wei who was our first gymnast to compete at the Olympics in London 2012. We congratulate Sze En on her history-making achievement!

Sze En is a wonderful role model for our next generation showing resilience against challenging odds with her surgeries as well as Covid. It was not an easy road, but she held firm to her mission of representing herself and her country with pride on the biggest stage. It truly takes a village to raise an athlete!

Competition And Other Events The disruption of face-to face-training in 2021 certainly tested the grit and passion of clubs, coaches, and athletes alike. In the absence of overseas competitions, SG launched three new local competitions: Summer Cup, SG Classic and Lunar Cup. These competitions provided a competitive environment and opportunity for the athletes to grow and learn.

One of the highlights for the year was the 2022 National Championships in March 2022 which saw over 1,204 gymnast athletes competing across Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, Women’s Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics as well as Trampolining across all levels. This event continues to grow, with this year seeing a 14% increase in participants.

I would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to our volunteers for their tireless hard work, dedication and spirit and their ongoing commitment as the event continues to grow. We have faced unique challenges hosting the National Championships over the past two years, but we are confident and excited moving forward to welcome back spectators as we continue to provide a safe and quality event for our athletes.

Further Embedding Safe Sport into Gymnastics SG takes Safe Sport and Child Safety very seriously. As shared with our community over the past year, we now include a Child Safe policy adopted in 2021 which came into effect on 1 January 2022. This supplements other existing endeavours. Due to the importance of this document and the information, SG has translated it to Chinese and Russian and also developed an educational questionnaire that Clubs can use to ensure their coaches and officials understand the content of this policy.

Body Confidence Guidelines In October2021, Singapore Gymnastics rolled out the Body Confidence Guidelines to help athletes feel confident and empowered. These guidelines were developed in collaboration with the Singapore Sport Institute (SSI) and the National Youth Sport Institute (NYSI) to educate and protect our athletes while providing a safe environment for them to excel in their sport. These guidelines will set the standard for our sporting ecosystem to adhere to in managing issues surrounding body image. This also plays key part in the wider Safe Sport drive launched in 2018.

Best Practice Governance At our AGM, held in August 2021, we once again approved changes to the Constitution. Governance of best practice is the cornerstone of sports achievement. It is essential to ensure that SG operations meet the highest level of integrity in promoting the sport and the objectives of the organisation.

We know it is important to adopt governance of best practice as it ensures that: • We have effective management and use of resources and information, • We can attract good talent and encourage external investment in SG, and • We can create a productive environment for volunteers and staff; and reduce impediments to performance.

We thank our members for supporting SG’s adoption of the mandatory governance principles for National Sports Associations (NSAs) which was rolled out jointly by Sport Singapore (SportSG) and Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) in 2021.

New Members We are happy to have approved at the 2021 AGM an additional nine Voting Members. We would like to congratulate these Clubs on achieving this milestone. We know it has come from hard work and dedication, and the Board looks forward to supporting, and serving these new Voting Members. It is important that we continue to build our community and Voting Members to ensure sustainability of the organisation, but more importantly it guarantees that the organisation is representative of the entire community.

Life Membership On 12 March 2022 the second Honorary Life Membership Award in SG’s history was awarded to Mr Sng Puay Liang, a person who has made a valuable and outstanding contribution to the Association.

Honorary Life Membership is the highest Award available to recognise the exceptional contributions of an individual to Singapore Gymnastics (SG).

For an individual to be nominated they must have provided gymnastics in Singapore with distinguished and meritorious service for not fewer than 12 consecutive years or 15 years of broken service of no more than two breaks, at a national level. In considering the award of Honorary Life Membership, an individual should have demonstrated significant, sustained, and high-quality service to enhance the reputation and future of gymnastics in Singapore.

Mr Sng Puay Liang was nominated by Full Members: Prime Gymnastics Club and Trampoline Singapore. In the application, accolades from his many peers over the decades were also included, showing the depth of his contribution and respect he has earned in the Singapore gymnastics community.

We congratulate and thank Mr Sng for his many contributions to developing gymnastics in Singapore.

A New Board At an extraordinary meeting in March 2021, a new Board was appointed for the interim period and until the 2021 AGM. The 2021 AGM saw seven new Directors elected for a two- and four-year term, which will see the

implementation of staggered terms of office. The newly elected board comprised of five of the Directors elected in March.

We would like to put on record our appreciation to the previous board members Jacqui Heng, Rabia Muir, Jessica Hinton and Stephen Lim for stepping up in March 2021 to strengthen the organisation in the lead up to the 2021 AGM. We thank you for volunteering to serve SG and for your effort and contribution

Directly following the AGM, the newly appointed Board met to appoint two Directors and the key office bearers.

The Board looks forward to continuing to serve the community and working in partnership to see the Strategic Plan become a reality.

Opportunity To Serve In September I was elected to the Singapore National Olympic as a National Sports Association (NSA) representative on the Executive Committee of the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC). I am excited and grateful for the opportunity to contribute to SNOC’s worthwhile work. I endeavour to be a voice for the NSAs and a bridge with the SNOC. I believe that as SNOC committee members, we can all work as a team to strengthen the ecosystem for high performance sports. In the larger scheme of things, we share a goal to improve sporting culture, so that through sports, we can further unify Singapore and uplift the spirit of our people

Finding A New Home The Board is committed to finding a “home” for gymnastics and we have therefore formed a Facilities Subcommittee to assist with this task. We are mindful that we need a facility that is world-class to take us to the next level. It will also help us attract a wider and more qualified set of international coaches to Singapore.

With our own facility we will be able to offer high-level training, and host competitions, clinics, and other educational seminars. While we know we will need to set up a financial model to ensure the longevity and effectiveness of a National Training Facility, we also have a clear intent that our Clubs can benefit directly and indirectly from a national facility for gymnastics.

Sustainability SG is cognisant that to remain viable and relevant we need to reduce our reliance on Sport Singapore funding and increase our membership base. While we demonstrated a surplus in FY21/22, we only received 29% from additional revenue, meaning 71% of our income came from SportSG funds.

Our membership is growing in the right direction with a healthy increase of 50% in 2021. To increase membership and revenue, SG cannot do this alone. We need to work and support our affiliated Clubs. Strong and robust clubs are key to a growing membership. With the introduction of our Club Quality Assurance Programme, Club Benefits Scheme, and other values, we endeavour to achieve our 10,000-member target by 2030.

The Board is committed to sourcing other revenue streams and will be working hard during our tenure to attract patrons, donors, and sponsors. But this will not be enough, and we will, with the support of the community need to conduct fundraising activities. The expression "many hands make light work" is so true,

as we will need everyone in the community to work as a team to achieve our desired outcomes. If we are strong, you are strong, and if you are strong, we are strong!

Our New Direction In November2021, we released our 2022 – 2025 Strategic Plan during the 2021 Club Forum. The new Strategic Plan builds on the initiatives developed over the past 4 years and ensures decisions for continual improvement of SG are informed and data driven.

SG will continue towards the vision “To promote GYMNASTICS as the fundamental sport for everyone that enriches lives, while nurturing world class athletes”, but SG will be looking even further with the mission for the next four years to see SG become a World Class Hub for gymnastics!

The Strategic Plan has set out our four key objectives for SG under key the pillars of Governance, Business Capabilities, High Performance and Sport Development linked to our key outcomes to: • Be recognised in Singapore and regionally as a leader in good governance and child safety, • Build reserves towards having 6 months operating expenses, • Start to have continuous top 8 finishes at a World Class events, and • Expand to 10,000 Members.

While there will still be a strong local focus on developing capacity and capability of our clubs, coaches and National Training Centre, SG will start to work with our overseas stakeholders to grow and develop the sport at a local, regional, continental, and international level.

The Board has developed a detailed stakeholder engagement plan with the objective to build SG's relationship with the International and Regional Federations of Gymnastics, namely the FIG and the Asian Gymnastics Union (AGU). This will occur through a holistic plan that provides opportunities for networking and relationship building, gain mindshare and campaign for Singapore at major events, competitions, and meetings both at a regional and international level.

Thank you Singapore Gymnastics would like to extend many thanks to the gymnastics community for their ongoing support and perseverance throughout 2021. We are excited to see everyone continuing to grow as we strive to achieve our ambitious objectives and goals. We know that we can only achieve them through a united and collaborative partnership with our Clubs who are the heartbeat and backbone of our community.

Singapore Gymnastics is also grateful for the ongoing and invaluable support of Sport Singapore, the Singapore National Olympic Council, and our sponsors. We thank everyone for their commitment and support for Singapore Gymnastics during 2021 and look forward to reaching even greater heights in 2022 and beyond.

Dr Patrick Liew President Singapore Gymnastics