Since 2015, Seniors Tennis GB (STGB) has run an initiative in association with the LTA and a number of County Associations, designed to encourage more adults over 35 years old to play more tennis more often. The aim is to support ideas to encourage adults to take up tennis through allocating grants up to £500 for the club or facility to help develop programmes. This has been very successful and popular, so we are repeating the exercise in 2018.
It's very easy. Simply come up with a plan that focuses on encouraging take-up of tennis by adults over the age of 35 who are either entirely new to tennis or who have moved away from the game for various reasons.
Typical projects might include:
Tennis Express
Touch Tennis
Weekend or midweek timed tournaments
Family sessions; Mum, Dad and kids combined sessions
Local company tournaments etc.
All applications are welcome with new ideas preferred.
What you need to do: outline your ideas, including planned dates/times/places/costings for the event(s) proposed, participant numbers, how you aim to attract new players into the programme, organiser details and the County or National Association that you are based in or belong to, together with details of how you will measure the effectiveness of the programme afterwards. For example, you might measure the number of new members you recruit as a direct result of the activity, number of BTMs signed up etc. Applications are to be made using a form which can be found on the website at
https://goo.gl/uvpUQF or contact Anne Clark.
Please submit your ideas and details on the application form to Anne, email address:
Anne.Clark@lta.org.uk or AC@seniorstennisgb.org
on behalf of STGB by the deadline date of Sunday 11 March 2018. We will not be able to consider applications received after this date and will aim to respond to you by 9 April 2018 whether or not you are successful, although we will try to contact you earlier. If your plan is approved, you will be eligible for a grant of up to £500, although please note that most grants awarded tend to be in the range of £200 to £300.
Good luck!
Anne Clark (on behalf of STGB)