Colleges can link up with local tennis clubs, parks or indoor centres to assist in delivering a wide range of activities including enrichment support and competitions. These partnerships also offer students affordable and accessible exit route opportunities to continue playing tennis outside college.
Find your nearest venues
Contact your local Tennis Development Manger
Developing a link with a local tennis venue brings many benefits to colleges, including:
- Increased opportunities for your students to play tennis outside college
- Opportunities for work experience placements and volunteering
- The college profile raised in the community
- Shared facilities and equipment
- Access to qualified and experienced tennis coaches who can up-skill staff
- and support delivery
- Enhanced enrichment activity
- Healthier and more physically active students, improving standards
- across the college
- Hosting a Tennis Satellite Club on the college site
- Increased awareness of exit routes for players, coaches and volunteers
- Establishing a Tennis Academy Programme linked to the
- Sport Study Programme
- Assistance in achieving targets, standards and recognition
Clubs
At the heart of British Tennis is a network of more than 2700 LTA registered venues. The venues include clubs that hvae specialist performance programmes as well as other clubs, many of which have achieved Tennis Clubmark.
Tennis Satellite Clubs
The Tennis Foundation and the LTA will be working closely with schools, colleges, tennis venues, County Sports Partnerships and Sport England to develop a number of satellite Clubs over the next four years.
More information on Satellite Clubs
Facility Development
The aspiration of the Places to Play Strategy is that everyone should have access to a quality tennis facility. The strategy offers support to assist in the development of places to play tennis.
Facility Development Factsheets
Clubmark is a cross-sport quality accreditation for clubs - the LTA is an accredited Clubmark partner.
Tennis Clubmark offers tennis venues the opportunity to be recognised for achieving excellent standards. It includes all the key criteria of the national Clubmark programme.
Coaches
There are many qualified and experienced tennis coaches in Britain, each with their own different skills and experience. It can be hard for players, parents, clubs, schools or colleges to choose the right coach for them.
Choosing a coach