British Gymnastics (BG) is the sports governing body for gymnastics disciplines in the United Kingdom including Acrobatic Gymnastics, Aerobic Gymnastics, Disability Gymnastics, Men’s Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, TeamGym, Trampoline, Double Mini Tramp, Tumbling and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.

It works in partnership with the Home Nations Gymnastics Associations: English Gymnastics, Gymnastics Northern Ireland, Scottish Gymnastics and Welsh Gymnastics.

British Gymnastics was founded in 1888 as the Amateur Gymnastics and Fencing Association.

Walter Tysall became the first Briton to win an Olympic medal for gymnastics, achieving silver at the 1908 Olympics.

Women competed at the Olympics in gymnastics for the first time at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, where the British women's team took the bronze – their best performance.

The 1960 Summer Olympics were the first to be televised, and this led to a greater interest in Britain of gymnastics.

In 1963 the Amateur Gymnastics Association became the British Amateur Gymnastics Association, and the BAGA first received a government grant, allowing it to pay coaches, and appoint a full-time national coach, Nik Stuart. He developed the BAGA Awards, a proficiency scheme for young gymnasts, which was adopted by seventy other countries.

The British men and women took part in their first ever Gymnastics World Championships in 1966 in Dortmund.