Tennis Clubmark

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Tennis Clubmark growing the sport
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Tennis Clubmark a quick overview

• Clubmark launched in tennis September 2007
• 540 Tennis Clubmark clubs
• 600 more working towards
• Target of 1300 Tennis Clubmark clubs

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Operational Priorities for British tennisGrowing
the sport and Winning

• Improving places to play
• Growing and professionalising the coaching market
• Optimising player programmes
• Improving the tennis experience
• Increasing and improving junior and adult
  competition

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Tennis Clubmark Criteria 4 sections

• Club business planning
• Tennis Programmes
• Polices and procedures
• Club Management
• Each criterion has a support/resource guide

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Club Business Planning

• Club action plan
• Action plan identifying club priorities
• Developed in partnership with LTA field team
• Focus for committee meetings
• Engaging the community and widening access to
  tennis.
• Club business plan
• Sustainability and sustainable programmes.
• In the past many clubs developed a business plan
  when they applied for funding.
• Ensuring clubs are sustainable in the future is
  going to be critical to the future of tennis in
  this country.

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Tennis Programmes

• Year round coaching programmes
• Minimum coaching hours dependent on the size of
  the club
• Right equipment
• Progression from mini tennis adults
• Ratios player to coach
• Year round competition programmes
• Competition in all coaching sessions
• Year round planned structure of regular intra
  club competition all ages and abilities
• Regular inter club competition
• Minimum standards dependent on the size of the
  club

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Tennis Programmes

• Talent attraction, identification and development
• Attracting young players from the community
• Delivering high quality programmes to retain
  involvement
• Link in with LTA talent ID structures and systems
• Support talented players by providing the right
  programme (with support from LTA talent team)
• Links with schools
• Number of links dependent on size of club and
  location
• Focus on back at club involvement rather than
  endless taster sessions

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Tennis Clubmark The Prize for Clubs

• More members
• Active and vibrant club
• More productive volunteers
• Focussed committee
• Increased income from membership
• Enhanced affiliation benefits from the LTA
• Ability to apply for funding
• Enhanced web presence LTA online
• More face to face visits from our field team
• Clubmark plaque and use of logo

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What our clubs are saying

• Rainford Tennis Club are currently enjoying one
  of the most successful seasons in their history.
  Since achieving Tennis Clubmark at the start of
  2009, the club have doubled their membership,
  have record numbers of juniors attending coaching
  and competitions and have delivered tennis to
  thousands of children in schools across St
  Helens.
• Although its early days the club has benefited
  from the team spirit stimulated by the challenge
  of working towards and achieving Tennis Clubmark.
  It provides a great framework to enable Matt and
  Marc our junior coach to build a successful
  junior section and programme. They have great
  commitment, enthusiasm and talent and we look
  forward to that rubbing off on the juniors and
  hopefully it will encourage children of all
  abilities to get involved and play tennis.

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Tennis Clubmark The Prize for Tennis

• More high quality clubs delivering high quality
  on court programmes coaching, competition,
  talent ID and development.
• More young people playing the game at clubs
  through improved club school links
• Improved coach committee relationships.
• Sustainable clubs with great facilities.
• Tennis clubs more active in their community and
  growing the sport.
• More productive volunteers.
• More organised opportunity the 1 million people
  who would play more regularly if they had the
  opportunity will be doing so.