Nicole Pavier

Advocate for change to create happy healthy sport | Ex england gymnast l 26 | nurse

[Nicole Pavier @N_Pavier]

We are honoured that our @Gymnasts4Change family have been recognised with a nomination for Sportswomen of the Year Awards 2022 🚀

Please lend your support by clicking on the link below and voting for us to win in the Changemaker category. ✨🫶🏻

https://t.co/YlKTaiq0Au…

[Gymnasts for Change @Gymnasts4Change]

Meet Nicole Pavier Carr, G4CI Lead Advocate & elite gymnastics survivor. As she heads to #SafeSport26 in Cape Town, watch her powerful story of contending with a "culture of fear" in gymnastics. https://t.co/Mei4AVa8FP

@SafesportInt #safeguarding

[Nicole Pavier @N_Pavier]

REFORM 25: A HOLLOW PR EXERCISE?

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[Gymnasts for Change @Gymnasts4Change]

Watch Gymnastics: A Culture of Abuse? Tonight, @itv 1, 22 February, 9pm

Image of Claire Claire Heafford, Co-founder Gymnasts For Change (c) ITV/Longtail Films

#BritishGymnastics #GymnastsAlliance #Gymnasticsabuse

[Gymnasts for Change @Gymnasts4Change]

This week, a new @ITV documentary lays bare the devastating sexual abuse inflicted on young gymnasts by their coaches and how whistle-blowers, who had the courage to speak out, were consistently ignored by #BritishGymnastics (BG).

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[Nicole Pavier @N_Pavier]

@jessyann92 😩 they continue to fail in all aspects of safeguarding! I’m so sorry

[Gymnasts for Change @Gymnasts4Change]

ANNOUNCEMENT: #GymnastsforChange is proud to announce that we were awarded charity status in Jan 2024.

This marks a new stage for us & our members, giving us much-needed funding to continue our mission.

Discover our resources: https://t.co/rAlm0CW7UH

📷Leah Hetteberg

[Gymnasts for Change @Gymnasts4Change]

Today @Gymnasts4Change published an Open Letter to British Gymnastics & UK Sport highlighting key failings in their Independent Complaints Process.

We are calling for an immediate halt to the ICP, describing it as "not fit for purpose".

Full letter ⬇️

https://t.co/A0cgQNHjlA

[Joanna Brittan @jebrittan2]

@DinoNocivelli
‘On the fringes of abuse’
‘Bordering on abuse’ etc.
Why is only sexual abuse criminalised?
Behaviour of ‘hard taskmasters’, the very worst of it, ought to be CRIMINAL

[Steve Scott @stevescott_itv]

Anne Whyte KC author of damning review into gymnastics culture says British Gymnastics lengthy complaints process will likely discourage whistleblowers in the future.

She also believes sanctioned coaches should be named. Currently BG is resisting.

https://t.co/OdhnTrJNdn

[Claire Heafford @claireheafford]

Gymnasts for Change welcome the new policies being introduced today by British Gymnastics. However, the policies are meaningless without a robust welfare, investigation & complaints system that delivers resolutions on behalf of complainants. Breaches of policy must be sanctioned

[Claire Heafford @claireheafford]

BG’s admission that breaching these new policies amounts to ‘physical abuse’ is significant, however they are currently still failing to sanction coaches for perpetrating clear cases of abuse and guideline violations via their own Independent Complaints Process.

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

British Gymnastics are bringing in new safeguarding policies for hydration, weighing and academic education for the first time.

David Hart, Performance Director @BritGymnastics, gymnastics coach Karen Whelan & former elite gymnast @EJotischky join @claremcdonnell1 to discuss ⬇️

[Nicole Pavier @N_Pavier]

Needed policies to protect children. But only an appropriate protection at the point a robust welfare, investigation and complaints system is in place that delivers resolutions.

Without, such policy won’t be enforced and the culture will continue to fester.
@Gymnasts4Change

[Natalie Pirks @Natpirks]

Gymnastics exclusive - coaches banned from weighing gymnasts in new safeguarding policies unveiled for the first time by the governing body.

https://t.co/D2Qfv9yCve

[Nicole Pavier @N_Pavier]

@Gymnasts4Change

[Nicole Pavier @N_Pavier]

British Gymnastics coaches banned from weighing athletes after 'systemic' abuse | UK News | Sky News https://t.co/gu8WaoTzif

[Nicole Pavier @N_Pavier]

We need public support and the support of the wider gymnastics community to understand these failings, becuase without the scrutiny and input of society, the cultural practices of sports will remain siloed and decades behind what is considered acceptable by the rest of society.

[Nicole Pavier @N_Pavier]

3/4 Gymnasts for Change cannot have faith in BG's ability to enforce the policies they have put in place, and as such BG continues to engage in acts of disguised compliance and ongoing institutional betrayal.

[Nicole Pavier @N_Pavier]

2/3 important steps but these will become redundant without establishing a more robust complaints process,

The realisation that the current independent complaints process is failing is an important moment for the future of sport in the UK.

[Natalie Pirks @Natpirks]

Last year, The Whyte Review into gymnastics said there where there was a ‘coach led culture of fear’ in the sport. Today, barrister Anne Whyte has told the BBC she’s surprised by the lack of detail in the banned coaches list which the governing body released today. More at 6pm.

[GymnastParentAlliance @GympalGB]

Saddened by the lack of transparency from British Gymnastics regarding the much-anticipated Banned and Expelled list.

Read our statement below 👇