Queenstown Gymnastics Club president Mark Kunath said the council had begun discussions with the Ministry of Education to see if it could continue using one of the Wakatipu High School gyms until the future of the site has been determined.
The existing high school will be decommissioned next month and from February the school will be located at Remarkables Park.
However, there was no space at the new school to house the gym club, which had a total of 185 members aged between 4 and 16, and another 65 on the waiting list.
Mr Kunath said the club had been looking for a new home for about three years, but had not been able to find anything suitable, or affordable, to date.
The gymnastics club had been using about 140sq m of one of the high school gyms, but the club's governing body, Gym Sports New Zealand, said ideally the club needed a facility that could provide about 1000sq m of space.
However, that much space was ''not easy to find'', he said.
''We are trying to find a space of at least 200sq m, that's affordable to our club, that we can continue to operate for an ongoing period in,'' he said.
The club could ''stretch'' to paying between $40,000 and $60,000 a year on rent, but it was, essentially, a ''charitable organisation'' - this year the club was making a surplus of about $25,000 from a turnover of about $115,000.
Most of the club's expenses went into employing coaches - one full-time and four part-time.
If it could find a bigger, better space, those on the waiting list could hopefully start training and existing club members could continue to live in, train and compete for Queenstown, Mr Kunath said.
QLDC sport and recreation manager Simon Battrick confirmed the council was speaking to the Ministry of Education on the club's behalf, but it was too early to provide comment.
