Richard Blackburn LTA Councillor Essex LTA added: “It is an honour for Essex to have two regional winner in the first year of the Aegon British Tennis Awards. Their contribution towards local tennis in Essex has been outstanding and the award is fully deserved. We wish Malcolm and Evie every luck as they now go forward to be judged by a national panel for the title of national award winners.
Pictured: Malcolm Sedgwick Thorpe Bay TC Regional Volunteer
Pictured above Evie Page, Hylands CASC
Young Regional Volunteer
The awards are a joint initiative between The Lawn Tennis Asociation (LTA), the Tennis Foundation, partner Aegon and 40 local/national tennis associations, including Essex LTA. The Awards reward and champion the people who deliver tennis in communities across Great Britain.
The regional winners are:
- Volunteer Award – Malcolm Sedgwick, Thorpe Bay Tennis Club
- Young Volunteer Award – Evie Page, Hylands CASC
- Coach Award – Graham Fish, Leverstock Green Tennis Club
- Club Award – Cambridge LTC
- Community Award – Park Tennis CIC
- Disability programme award – Riverside LTC
- Education Award – Charters School
- Outstanding Achievement – Angie Gunn, Cassiobury LTC
The winners now go through to a national judging panel with winners to be invited to a national ceremony to be held in London in June 2016.
To find out more about the Aegon British Tennis Awards, visit www.lta.org.uk/britishtennisawards or contact: Lynn O’Brien, Essex LTA, lynn@essextennis.org.uk; 0208 502 6364
The Lawn Tennis Association’s (LTA) mission is to get more people playing tennis more often, and its role is to develop, promote and govern tennis in Britain.
- Aegon is Lead Partner of British Tennis and is helping to transform the sport in this country. They’re supporting young talent through the Aegon Future Stars programme, as well as sponsoring the junior and senior GB Davis and Fed Cup teams and amateur and professional events. Aegon sponsor five world-class grass court tournaments; the Aegon Classic Birmingham, Aegon International Eastbourne and Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club, and will also sponsor the new Aegon Open Nottingham WTA and ATP events from 2015. For further information visit www.aegontennis.co.uk
- The LTA’s purpose is to enrich lives through tennis. Our new values are Teamwork, Integrity, Passion and Excellence which underpin everything that we do.