The Lawn Tennis Association

The Lawn Tennis Association are the governing body for the game of tennis in Great Britain.The Club continues to work closely with the LTA to ensure we provide the best facilties, best coaching, best support to promote the sport of tennis within our local community.

We recognise that the future of the sport lies with providing the correct framework to match the LTA's own Blueprint for Tennis. We are committed to working to attract as many Juniors to the sport as we can and providing the correct developement to ensure 'More players - better players'.

The LTA's fantastic support recently enabled us to provide state of the art floodlighting on 4 additional courts, further expanding our offering to the local community and increasing the number of available hours of tennis we can provide throughout the year.

Tennis Clubmark

The club are proud to have achieved Clubmark status and will work hard to ensure we continue to improve our tennis offering.

Clubmark was introduced by Sport England in 2002 and is currently being implemented across 34 sports. The LTA administers its own version of Clubmark based on the National guidelines for best practice combined with real life examples of successfully run places to play across the Country.

All places to play awarded with Clubmark:

• Ensure the place to play has a fair and transparent operational structure
• Adhere to best practice policies and procedures around safeguarding junior and adult members/users
• Deliver a comprehensive and all encompassing tennis programme for all ages and abilities
• Produce a clear plan of action for long term sustainability and future growth