Lutterworth Tennis Club, Leicestershire, has secured Olympic legacy funding from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities Fund.
The Inspired Facilities Fund is part of the £135 million ‘Places People Play’ legacy programme that is bringing the magic of a home Olympic and Paralympic Games into communities across the country. Every sports facility that receives funding will carry the London 2012 Inspire mark - celebrating the link to the Games.
Lutterworth Tennis Club will receive £39,187 of National Lottery funding towards the construction of a fifth fllodlit court at the club. Although the Club has four well-maintained floodlit courts, the club has a long waiting list of people wanting to attend its coaching programme and the additional court will help create a range of new opportunities for people to become involved in the sport of tennis.
Lutterworth Tennis Club is one of hundreds of projects across England benefitting from lottery investment through the third round of the Inspired Facilities Fund. The fourth round of Inspired Facilities applications opens on 4th March to help local community sports groups to upgrade their facilities and more information on this can be found at www.sportengland.org/inspiredfacilities.
‘Places People Play’ is being delivered by Sport England, working in partnership with the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the British Paralympic Association (BPA), with the backing of The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and the London 2012 Inspire mark.
LOCOG Chair, Seb Coe, said: “This is a fantastic funding project that will deliver a real legacy from the London 2012 Games. It will provide a whole range of sporting opportunities for young people through improved facilities and will, I hope, inspire them to take up sport.”