- Target:
- Hampshire
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- clubspark.lta.org.uk
Over the past 5-years Romsey Tennis has been delivering a strategy of “Tennis for All”. The specific aim of this strategy is to develop services that will enable all our catchment community to become involved in tennis-based activities. This includes:
• opportunities for disabled people to play tennis, or have access to appropriate coaching sessions
• free/subsidised coaching for children from disadvantaged backgrounds
• free/subsidised tennis sessions for people through our community partners including Youth in Romsey, The Priory and Romsey Young Carers
• low-cost entry routes into tennis (for example Tennis Xpress (for all abilities), cardio tennis for non-tennis players and players, holiday camps
• partnerships with local schools
• pay-and-play for children and adults who want to play outside of a club environment
• free taster sessions with coaching to encourage people to get engaged in sport
To deliver this strategy has required the upgrade of facilities that were not fit for purpose, as follows:
(1) new court surface (all courts) - 2013
(2) Floodlight courts 1 and 2 - 2013
We are now at the point where to continue to deliver and develop our community services we require further court capacity at peak times (week-day after-school and evenings). This requires courts 3 and 4 to be floodlit. This is the subject of this petition.
The health value of sport is well recognised, but not everyone has the opportunity to take part in sporting activities or has easy access to affordable facilities. Romsey Tennis has a strategy to provide access to inexpensive tennis-based activities for all our catchment community. Tennis is a sport for life, played by people aged 3 to 90+.
At Romsey Tennis, there is a very high demand for courts during peak times when we run most of our community sessions. For this reason, we are submitting applications to the Lawn Tennis Association and to Test Valley Borough Council Community Asset Fund for grants to pay for floodlighting for two courts at our site at the Rapids in Romsey.
We are requesting funding to meet our goal of enabling increased participation in sporting activities by the wider Romsey community. We are focusing on the following:
• providing increased pay-and-play opportunities at peak times
• further growing our junior programme
• providing additional services for disabled and disadvantaged young people
• supporting our current membership activity
We would be grateful if you could indicate your support for this initiative by signing this petition.
Many thanks,
Romsey Tennis
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The Increase Community Participation in Tennis in Romsey petition to Hampshire was written by Romsey Tennis and is in the category Sports at GoPetition.